Introduction |
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How This Book is Organized |
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PART I Your Introduction to Word |
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PART IV Spruce Up a Dull Document |
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Part I Your Introduction to Word |
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The good, yet unimaginative, way to start Word |
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The better way to start Word |
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The best way to start Word |
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Start Word by opening a document |
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The blank place where you write |
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The mouse pointer in Word |
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Ending Your Word Processing Day |
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Quit what you're doing without quitting Word |
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Chapter 2 The Typing Chapter |
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Follow the blinking cursor |
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When to whack the spacebar |
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When to press that Enter key |
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Stuff That Happens While You Type |
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The left end of the status bar |
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Spots and clutter in your text |
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Strange underlines and colored text |
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Chapter 3 To and Fro in a Document |
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Scroll Through a Document |
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Using the vertical scroll bar |
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Using the horizontal scroll bar |
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Scrolling your document with the mouse |
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Move the Insertion Pointer |
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Commanding the insertion pointer with the mouse |
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Moving in small increments (basic arrow keys) |
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Moving from beginning to end |
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Get Back to Where You Once Edited |
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Go to Wherever with the Go To Command |
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Remove Text You Don't Want |
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Deleting single characters |
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Deleting more than a word |
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Split and Join Paragraphs |
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Making two paragraphs from one |
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Making one paragraph from two |
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The Soft and Hard Returns |
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Undo Mistakes with Undo Haste |
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Redo, the Undo-Undo command |
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Redo, the Repeat Typing command |
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Chapter 5 Search for This, Replace It with That |
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Using the traditional Find command |
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Finding stuff you can't type in |
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Replace Found Text and Stuff |
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Finding and replacing formatting |
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Using the keyboard to select text |
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Marking a block with the mouse |
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Using the F8 key to mark a block |
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Blocking the whole dang-doodle document |
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Manipulating Blocks of Text |
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Setting the pasted text format |
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Copying or moving a block with the mouse |
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Looking at the Clipboard pane |
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Pasting from the Clipboard pane |
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Cleansing the Clipboard pane |
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Dealing with on-the-fly spell checking |
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Dealing with words incorrectly flagged as being misspelled |
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Undoing the Ignore All command |
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Removing words from the custom dictionary |
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AutoCorrect Your Common Typos |
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Understanding AutoCorrect |
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Creating your own AutoCorrect entries |
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Undoing an AutoCorrect correction |
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All-at-Once Document Proofing |
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Control Word's Proofing Options |
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Changing spell-check and grammar settings |
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Perusing AutoCorrect options |
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Chapter 8 Documents and Such |
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Saving a document the first time |
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Dealing with document-save errors |
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Saving or updating a document |
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Forgetting to save before you quit |
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Accessing recently opened files |
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Opening more than one document at a time |
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Opening one document inside another |
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Chapter 9 Publish Your Document |
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Printing the whole document |
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Printing a range of pages |
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Printing more than one copy of something |
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Preparing a document for sharing |
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Sending a Word document by e-mail |
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Saving a Word document in a sharable format |
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Saving a Word document as a PDF |
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Chapter 10 Character Formatting |
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Basic Character Formatting |
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Applying character formats |
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Using less-common character attributes |
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Text Transcending Teeny to Titanic |
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Text Formatting with the Font Dialog Box |
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Removing Character Formatting |
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Chapter 11 Paragraph Formatting |
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How to Format a Paragraph |
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Where the Paragraph Formatting Commands Lurk |
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Paragraph Justification and Alignment |
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Make Room Before, After, or Inside Paragraphs |
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Setting specific line spacing options |
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Making space between paragraphs |
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Indenting the first line of a paragraph |
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Making a hanging indent (an outdent) |
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Indenting a whole paragraph |
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Who Died and Made This Thing Ruler? |
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Chapter 12 Tab Formatting |
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The Standard Left Tab Stop |
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Creating a basic tabbed list |
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Creating a two-tab paragraph thing |
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Making a right-stop, left-stop list |
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Building a two-column right stop list |
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Setting a tab in the Tabs dialog box |
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Chapter 13 Page Formatting |
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Setting orientation (landscape or portrait) |
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Configuring the page margins |
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Using the Page Setup dialog box |
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Adding an automatic page number |
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Starting off with a different page number |
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Numbering with roman numerals |
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Inserting a whole, blank page |
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Chapter 14 Document Formatting |
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The Oft Misunderstood Yet Useful Concept of Sections |
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Add a Cover Page (Sneaky and Quick) |
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Adding a header or footer |
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Editing a header or footer |
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Making odd and even headers or footers |
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Removing the header and footer from the first page |
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182 | (1) |
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Working with headers and footers in document sections |
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Removing a header or footer |
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Chapter 15 Word Formatting Styles |
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Understanding style types |
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186 | (1) |
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Finding the styles in Word |
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Understanding heading styles |
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189 | (1) |
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Determining which style you're using |
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Switching to another style set |
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191 | (1) |
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Creating a style based on text you've already formatted |
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Creating a style from scratch |
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194 | (1) |
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Giving your style a shortcut key |
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Customizing the Quick Style Gallery |
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Chapter 16 Fun with Themes and Template Formatting |
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Applying a document theme |
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Modifying or creating a theme |
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Create Instant Documents by Using Templates |
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Starting a new document by using a template |
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203 | (1) |
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Creating a template based on a document you already have |
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204 | (1) |
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Making a new template from scratch |
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Attaching a template to a document |
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Borrowing an existing document as a template |
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Chapter 17 Sundry Formatting |
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Weird and Fun Text Attributes |
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209 | (2) |
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211 | (4) |
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Enjoying automagical text |
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211 | (1) |
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Paragraph formatting tricks |
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212 | (2) |
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214 | (1) |
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Disabling the @#$%&! AutoFormat |
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214 | (1) |
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Center a Page, Top to Bottom |
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Part IV Spruce Up a Dull Document |
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Chapter 18 Lines and Colors |
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The Basics of Lines and Colors |
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221 | (3) |
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Using the Border command button |
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Summoning the Borders and Shading dialog box |
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223 | (1) |
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Using the Shading command button |
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223 | (1) |
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Lines, Borders, and Boxes |
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Putting a line above a heading |
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224 | (1) |
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Boxing text or paragraphs |
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Drawing a fat, thick line |
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226 | (1) |
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Putting a border around a page of text |
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226 | (1) |
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227 | (1) |
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Background Colors and Shading |
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228 | (1) |
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Suddenly There's a Table in Your Document |
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229 | (4) |
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Working with tables in Word |
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230 | (1) |
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Creating an instant table |
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Making a table "this" big |
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231 | (1) |
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Putting text into a table |
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234 | (1) |
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Selecting text in a table |
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Converting text into a table |
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235 | (1) |
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Turning a table back into plain text |
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235 | (1) |
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Manipulating a table with the mouse |
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Chapter 20 Columns of Text |
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Making more than three columns |
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243 | (1) |
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244 | (1) |
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Adjusting the columns in the Columns dialog box |
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244 | (1) |
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Giving up and going back to one column |
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245 | (1) |
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Ending multiple columns in the middle of a document |
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245 | (1) |
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246 | (3) |
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Lists with Bullets and Numbers |
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249 | (3) |
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249 | (1) |
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250 | (1) |
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Creating a multilevel numbered list |
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251 | (1) |
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Numbering lines on a page |
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251 | (1) |
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Lists of Document Contents |
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252 | (3) |
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Creating a table of contents |
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Chapter 22 Here Come the Graphics |
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Graphical Goobers in Your Text |
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258 | (7) |
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258 | (1) |
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259 | (1) |
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260 | (1) |
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Saving time with SmartArt |
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261 | (1) |
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262 | (1) |
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262 | (1) |
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263 | (1) |
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Deleting an image or artwork |
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264 | (1) |
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Images in and around Your Text |
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265 | (2) |
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Wrapping text around an image |
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265 | (1) |
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Moving an image hither and thither |
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266 | (1) |
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267 | (4) |
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267 | (1) |
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268 | (1) |
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269 | (1) |
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Changing an image's appearance |
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269 | (1) |
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Arranging multiple images |
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270 | (1) |
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Chapter 23 Even More Things to Insert in Your Document |
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271 | (10) |
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271 | (3) |
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Nonbreaking spaces and hyphens |
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272 | (1) |
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Typing characters such as U, C, and N |
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272 | (1) |
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Inserting special characters and symbols |
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273 | (1) |
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Spice Up Your Document with a Text Box |
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274 | (1) |
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275 | (4) |
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Placing a field in a document |
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275 | (3) |
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278 | (1) |
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279 | (2) |
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Sticking the current date or time into a document |
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279 | (1) |
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Typing date-and time keyboard shortcuts |
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280 | (1) |
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Using the PrintDate field |
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280 | (1) |
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Chapter 24 Multiple Documents, Windows, and File Formats |
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283 | (8) |
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283 | (4) |
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Opening several documents at once |
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284 | (1) |
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Switching between multiple documents |
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284 | (1) |
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Viewing more than one document at a time |
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285 | (1) |
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Comparing two documents side by side |
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285 | (1) |
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Viewing the same document in multiple windows |
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286 | (1) |
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Using the old split-screen trick |
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286 | (1) |
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Many, Many Document Types |
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287 | (4) |
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Understanding document formats |
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287 | (1) |
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Opening a non-Word document |
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288 | (1) |
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Saving a document in another file format |
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289 | (1) |
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Converting an older Word document |
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290 | (1) |
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Chapter 25 Word for Writers |
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291 | (14) |
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291 | (2) |
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292 | (1) |
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Putting Topics in the Outline |
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293 | (4) |
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Demoting a topic (creating subtopics) |
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294 | (1) |
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295 | (1) |
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295 | (1) |
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296 | (1) |
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Expanding and contracting topics |
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296 | (1) |
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297 | (1) |
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Large Document Organization |
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297 | (3) |
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Setting up for a large document |
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297 | (2) |
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Creating a master document |
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299 | (1) |
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300 | (1) |
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300 | (2) |
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301 | (1) |
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Using the Research task pane |
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302 | (1) |
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302 | (3) |
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303 | (1) |
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303 | (1) |
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304 | (1) |
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Chapter 26 Let's Work This Out |
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305 | (10) |
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305 | (4) |
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305 | (2) |
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307 | (1) |
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Printing comments (or not) |
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308 | (1) |
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Whip Out the Yellow Highlighter |
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309 | (1) |
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Look What They've Done to My Text, Ma |
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310 | (5) |
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Comparing two versions of the same document |
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310 | (2) |
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Tracking changes as you make them |
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312 | (1) |
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312 | (3) |
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Chapter 27 Mail Merge Mania |
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315 | (16) |
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315 | (3) |
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Understanding Word's mail merge terminology |
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316 | (1) |
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Reviewing the mail merge process |
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317 | (1) |
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318 | (3) |
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Creating a mail merge letter |
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318 | (1) |
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Creating mail merge e-mail messages |
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319 | (1) |
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Creating mail merge envelopes |
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320 | (1) |
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Creating a mail merge directory |
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321 | (1) |
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321 | (5) |
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Creating a recipient list |
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321 | (3) |
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Using an already created recipient list |
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324 | (1) |
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Grabbing a recipient list from Outlook |
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325 | (1) |
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326 | (1) |
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326 | (1) |
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327 | (4) |
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Previewing the merged documents |
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328 | (1) |
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Merging to a new set of documents |
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329 | (1) |
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329 | (1) |
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330 | (1) |
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Chapter 28 Labels of Love |
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331 | (8) |
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331 | (1) |
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Here's a Sheet of Identical Labels |
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332 | (1) |
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333 | (2) |
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A Label Trick with Graphics |
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335 | (4) |
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Chapter 29 A More Custom Word |
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339 | (8) |
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My, What Big Text You Have! |
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339 | (2) |
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Working the Status Bar Zoom control |
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340 | (1) |
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340 | (1) |
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341 | (1) |
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Word's Changing Interface |
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342 | (5) |
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Finding the Quick Access toolbar |
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342 | (1) |
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Customizing the Quick Access toolbar |
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343 | (2) |
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Adding stuff to the Ribbon |
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345 | (2) |
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347 | (24) |
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Chapter 30 The Ten Commandments of Word |
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349 | (4) |
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Thou Shalt Remember to Save Thy Work |
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349 | (1) |
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Thou Shalt Not Use More Than One Space |
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350 | (1) |
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Thou Shalt Not Press Enter at the End of Each Line |
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350 | (1) |
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Thou Shalt Not Neglect Thy Keyboard |
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350 | (1) |
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Thou Shalt Not Manually Number Thy Pages |
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351 | (1) |
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Thou Shalt Not Use the Enter Key to Start a New Page |
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351 | (1) |
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Thou Shalt Not Forget Thy Undo Command |
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351 | (1) |
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351 | (1) |
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Thou Shalt Have Multiple Document Windows Before Thee |
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352 | (1) |
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352 | (1) |
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Chapter 31 Ten Cool Tricks |
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353 | (8) |
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Automatic Save with AutoRecover |
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353 | (1) |
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354 | (1) |
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355 | (1) |
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355 | (1) |
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356 | (1) |
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356 | (1) |
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357 | (1) |
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Add an Envelope to Your Letter |
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358 | (1) |
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358 | (1) |
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359 | (2) |
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Chapter 32 Ten Bizarre Things |
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361 | (6) |
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361 | (1) |
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362 | (1) |
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362 | (1) |
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363 | (1) |
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364 | (1) |
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364 | (1) |
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364 | (1) |
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365 | (1) |
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365 | (1) |
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366 | (1) |
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Chapter 33 Ten Avuncular Suggestions |
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367 | (4) |
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Keep Printer Paper, Toner, and Supplies Handy |
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367 | (1) |
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368 | (1) |
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Keep Your Computer Files Organized |
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368 | (1) |
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368 | (1) |
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369 | (1) |
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369 | (1) |
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Use Those Keyboard Shortcuts |
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369 | (1) |
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369 | (1) |
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370 | (1) |
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Don't Take It All Too Seriously |
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370 | (1) |
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