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Printed Page 3
About This Book

Help Button in the upper-left corner............

should read upper right corner............

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 3
About this book...

I noticed that some already submitted this as an error i.e, upper-right v upper-left, but if you look at page 480 & 481 the two graphics of the help screen show the button in the upper-left.

Apparently, different pages/windows can have it on the left and most or some have it on the right.

NOTE; my laptop has this text so small I can't read what I'm typing. HOPE YOU CAN GET MY DRIFT.

Charlie

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 4
Line 11 from bottom

Space missing in "yougraduate", should be "you graduate".

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 7
first paragraph, first sentence

website url is spelled incorrectly in body of paragraph. It says, "At the www.missingmauals.com web
site" (the "n" is missing) instead of "www.missingmanuals.com"

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 22
1st paragraph, 4th sentence

Sentence states "In the upper-right corner you see some document-proofing tools....". The document
proofing tools are actually in the upper-left corner. I am using a trial version of Microsoft Office Word
2007 so I guess it could be different for the complete version.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 32
Grey box at top, 2nd paragraph

In the book is says ?scroll down to the Save group? to find ?Always create backup copy? checkbox.
You should add Select Advanced so you don?t have to search all options. I clicked Save on the left but
did not find the checkbox.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 32
Power Users' Clinic box

The paragraph beginning "After the Word Options dialog box opens, scroll down to the Save group, and turn
on the "Always create..." This is not quite correct. After the Word Options dialog box, you then need to
pick the Advanced group, and then scroll down to the Save heading.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 32
Top of the page in Power Users Clinic

In the right colum, second line of the "Preventing and Recovering from Disaster" Power User's Clinic:

is: "After the Word Options dialog box opens, scroll down to the Save group, and ..."

should be: "After the Word Options dialog box opens, select Advanced and then scroll down to the Save group, and ..."

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 43
Line 4 under the heading "Selecting Multiple ..."

The reference in parantheses to Figure 2-8 should be to Figure 2-7.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 65
NOTE under Figure 3.2

If you choose "Whole document," Word applies these paper size and other page layout settings to your
entire document. If you choose "This point forward," Word creates a PAGE BREAK at the insertion point,
and starts using the new settings only after the break.

Should be -- Word inserts a NEXT PAGE SECTION BREAK ...

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 66
end of 4th line

the note refers to page 385 as explaining "sections", but there is no info on sections on page 385. The
info on sections is found on pages 197-200

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 69
3rd paragraph

Under "Mirror margins," you state: "This setting makes outside and inside margins identical." This is either meaningless or misleading. Please replace that sentence with something like: "This setting lets you set up independent widths for outside and inside margins."

 George Trosper 
Printed Page 112
Line 5 from bottom

The info about Right tab is somewhat confusing. Saying that the text "flows backwards" and "from right to left" makes me believe that it suddenly converts the text to Hebrew! You might say "The text you input extends to the left from the tab stop, leaving the last letter aligned with the tab."

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 112
Line 5 from bottom

The info about Right tab is somewhat confusing. Saying that the text "flows backwards" and "from right to left" makes me believe that it suddenly converts the text to Hebrew! You might say "The text you input extends to the left from the tab stop, leaving the last letter aligned with the tab."

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 113
middle

Under Tab Leaders, it describes them but doesn't tell me how to implement them? Go to ? and click on ?

 stuart weiss 
Printed Page 114
Figure 4-18, top of page

In the illustration, the arrow pointing to the left margin incorrectly reads Right margin.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 132
Last line

The statement to the effect that a Google search will (would) bring up x entries is a bit too fickle to merit mentioning. Of course, it also depends on whether you enclose some words in quotes. Googling today, I get for:
Office 2007 themes [no quotes]: 48,500,000;
"Office 2007" themes: 2,250,000;
"Office 2007 themes": 3,570.
The problem (as usual on search engines) is that 99 % of the entries still are about something completely different.
Adding THMX to search might help.
I still miss a good search statement that would lead to this specific subject...

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 132
Last line

The statement to the effect that a Google search will (would) bring up x entries is a bit too fickle to merit mentioning. Of course, it also depends on whether you enclose some words in quotes. Googling today, I get for:
Office 2007 themes [no quotes]: 48,500,000;
"Office 2007" themes: 2,250,000;
"Office 2007 themes": 3,570.
The problem (as usual on search engines) is that 99 % of the entries still are about something completely different.
Adding THMX to search might help.
I still miss a good search statement that would lead to this specific subject...

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 162
Line 3 below "Checking your word count"

In the text, the reference "at the document window's lower-right corner" should be "... lower-left corner".
The caption to Figure 6-20 itself, however, is correct.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 172
Second line

"onthe" should have a space inserted, "on the".

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 195
last paragraph

missing a word in the second sentence. ...jump between specific points IN the document.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 195
last paragraph

Alt+H, G does not go to the Go To box. Ctrl+G or F5 does.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 201
top

I'm on the top of page 201 trying to figure out the Table of Contents. It says to create a manual TOC, go to page 81. I go to page 81 and it's about headers and footers, which has nothing to do with TOC. Is this an error?

 Stuart Weiss 
Printed Page 203
text in the figure 9-7 box

Might be clearer to say Ctrl-click one of the PAGE NUMBERS...

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 209
Under item 4.

You write "Typically, the page that holds the most important information about an entry gets bold formatting, and page ranges get italics, but Word will do whatever you tell it."

Based on the hundreds of professionally produced indexes that I have used over the last 50 years or so, italicizing page ranges would be totally atypical. That is, I have never seen it done that I can remember.

However, I have very often seen italics used to indicate pages on which special material--most often, illustrations--appear.

I therefore suggest breaking and revising the sentence above into three:

"If there are many places where an entry is indexed, the most important pages or ranges may be boldfaced. To indicate pages that contain special material, such as illustrations or tables, typically italics are used. Word will do whatever you tell it, but you may want to include a note at the beginning of the index explaining what your special formatting means."

 George Trosper 
Printed Page 211
Middle of the page

At the upper-LEFT-corner of the Print Preview box...

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 211
Line 13

"At the upper-right corner of ..." should be "At the upper-left ...".

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 212
Line 6 below the heading "Using AutoMark..."

"When you References ..." should be "When you go to References ..."

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 212
Line 6 below the heading "Using AutoMark..."

"When you References ..." should be "When you go to References ..."

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 214
Line 1 under the heading "Deleting an Index"

"You may have a couple reasons ..." should read "You may have a couple of reasons ..."

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 214
Line 1 under the heading "Deleting an Index"

"You may have a couple reasons ..." should read "You may have a couple of reasons ..."

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 228
Line 13 from top

"Word closes the Create Source box closes and ..." should read "Word closes the Create Source box and ..."

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 228
Line 13 from top

"Word closes the Create Source box closes and ..." should read "Word closes the Create Source box and ..."

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 230
Step 1 Near bottom of page

Step 1 says "For the master document, create a new file with Office button -> New -> Blank Document, and then save it (Office button -> Save).

The next sentence then says "It's a good idea to give it a name that identifies it as the master document, like....."

Clicking Office -> Save as Step 1 directs saves the new document as "Document 1," so if I want to save it with a specific name as the sentence after Step 1 suggests, I need to use Save As, not Save.

 Don McMinds 
Printed Page 251
Line 5 from the bottom

Subheading 3. should have a reference to Figure 10-15.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 251
Line 5 from the bottom

Subheading 3. should have a reference to Figure 10-15.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 255
Line 5 from the bottom of left column

"... border line.Use tables ..." lacks a space: "... line. Use ..."

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 267
Line 7 from the bottom

Would it no be more logical to say "... you see both the original image and ...", rather than "... the full-sized image ..."? After all, you might want to increase its size, too.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 267
Line 7 from the bottom

Would it no be more logical to say "... you see both the original image and ...", rather than "... the full-sized image ..."? After all, you might want to increase its size, too.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 340
Line 5 from top

Shouldn't "... postcard as fits in an ..." be "... postcard as it is in an ..."?

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 340
Line 5 from top

Shouldn't "... postcard as fits in an ..." be "... postcard as it is in an ..."?

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 343
Line 14 from top

The last sentence reads "Plain text almost makes ...". Should that be "Plain text also makes ..."?

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 343
Line 14 from top

The last sentence reads "Plain text almost makes ...". Should that be "Plain text also makes ..."?

 Anonymous 

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