Advanced Microsoft® Office Documents 2007 Edition Inside Out

Document Logic: Bringing Yourself to the Document

One of the easiest things you can do to stay in control of your documents is to remember what you already knew before you ever sat down at a computer. The two most important skills for simplifying complex document production have nothing to do with software features. They’re skills you’ve been developing and using since childhood—planning and organization.

People often learn software programs by memorizing the set of steps necessary to execute tasks. When it comes to Word, that approach just won’t get you as far as you might want to go. Using Word effectively at an advanced level requires that you take time to think and understand what’s happening in your document. If that sounds like more of a ...