Using Microsoft Word 2010

2. Editing Documents

This chapter introduces Word’s text-editing features, which let you create and manage your documents’ content—and help you get your message just right.

You might have noticed that most of this book deals with Word’s formatting tools, which make your documents look nice. But even though the lion’s share of Word is all about appearances, content is still king. If your text is sloppy or badly organized, no amount of formatting magic can make it more interesting or meaningful.

So, this chapter ignores stuff like fonts and pictures and shows you how to insert, delete, move, and otherwise manage the text that forms the heart and soul of your documents. The following sections also introduce Building Blocks, which can quickly insert ...