Description
Word Annoyances offers to the point (and often opinionated) solutions to your most vexing editing, formatting, printing, faxing, and scanning problems. It covers everything from installation and templates to tables, columns, and graphics. It also provides a gentle introduction to the power of macros so you can slay your annoyances by the truckload. The fixes will work with most versions of Word, including Word 2000, Word 2002 (also known as Word XP), and Word 2003.
Full Description
When most people think of word processing, they think of Microsoft Word. After all, it has been around for more than 20 years-practically an eternity in computer time. But Word has also provided its users-nearly everyone on the face of the planet-with an endless supply of annoyances. That is, until now.
Word Annoyances offers to the point (and often opinionated) solutions to your most vexing editing, formatting, printing, faxing, and scanning problems. It covers everything from installation and templates to tables, columns, and graphics. For example, learn how to stop Word from searching the Web for help, and how to enter the same text easily in multiple parts of a document-and keep it updated automatically. It also provides a gentle introduction to the power of macros so you can slay your annoyances by the truckload. The fixes will work with most versions of Word, including Word 2000, Word 2002 (also known as Word XP), and Word 2003.
Among the topics covered:
- Deal with installation issues, crashes, and slowdowns, and dispose of the Office Assistant-either temporarily or forever.
- Master templates, numbering, graphics, hyperlinks, tabs, tables, headers, and other everyday annoyances.
- Tame some of Word's wiliest features, such as Smart Cut and Paste, Click and Type, Mail Merge, AutoCorrect, and AutoText.
- Printing, Faxing, and Scanning-need we say more?
- Learn to output and distribute your documents with confidence.
- Need to work with other Microsoft applications or Macs? You'll find annoyances dealing with Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, as well as a whole chapter just on Mac Word.
About the Author
Guy Hart-Davis has been using Microsoft Word for more than 15 years, during which time he has seen its capabilities increase steadily and its annoyances increase exponentially. His other books include
Word 2000 Developer's Handbook (Sybex) and
How to Do Everything with Your iPod and iPod mini (McGraw-Hill). In this book he shares secrets that will quell calm your colleagues, impress your friends, and confound your enemies.
Colophon
Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects.
Sanders Kleinfeld was the production editor and proofreader for Word Annoyances. Rachel Wheeler was the copyeditor. Sanders Kleinfeld did the typesetting and page makeup. Genevieve d'Entremont and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Julie Hawks wrote the index.
Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book using Adobe Illustrator and produced the cover layout with Adobe InDesign CS using Gravur Condensed, Glypha, and Adobe Sabon fonts. The cover is based on a series design by Volume Design, Inc.
Patti Capaldi designed the interior layout using Adobe InDesign CS. The text and heading fonts are Rotis Sans Serif, Lineto Gravur Condensed, and Myriad Pro; the code font is TheSans Mono Condensed. Joe Wizda converted the text to Adobe InDesign CS. The screenshots and technical illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano, Jessamyn Read, and Lesley Borash using Macromedia FreeHand MX and Adobe Photoshop 7. The cartoon illustrations used on the cover and in the interior of this book are copyright © 2004 and 2005 Hal Mayforth.
