Dan Gookin
Word 2016 For Dummies
Word 2016 For Dummies®
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2015949749
ISBN 978-1-119-07689-6 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-119-07695-7 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-119-07685-8 (ebk)
Introduction
The only thing standing between you and your writing is your word processor. Yeah, I know: It’s supposed to be helpful. Well, it tries. Computers can do only so much. But you, as a smart person, are capable of so much more. I’m guessing that’s why you opened this book.
Welcome to Word 2016 For Dummies, which removes the pain from using Microsoft’s latest, greatest, most confusing word-processing software ever! This book is your friendly, informative, and entertaining guide to the routine of processing words that is Word 2016.
Be warned: I’m not out to make you love Word. This book won’t make you enjoy the program. Use it, yes. Tolerate it, of course. The only promise I’m offering is to ease the pain that most people feel from using Microsoft Word. Along the way, I kick Word in the butt, and I hope you enjoy reading about it.
About This Book
I don’t intend for you to read this book from cover to cover. It’s not a novel, and if it were, it would be a political space opera with an antihero and a princess fighting elected officials who are in cahoots with a galactic urban renewal development corporation. The ending would be extremely satisfying.
This book is a reference. Each chapter covers a specific topic or task you can accomplish by using Word 2016. Within each chapter, you find self-contained sections, each of which describes how to perform a specific task or get something done. Sample topics you encounter in this book include
✔ Moving a block
✔ Checking your spelling
✔ Saving your stuff!
✔ Text-formatting techniques
✔ Working with tables in Word
✔ Plopping down a picture
✔ Mail merge, ho!
I give you no keys to memorize, no secret codes, no tricks, no presentations to sleep through, and no wall charts. Instead, each section explains a topic as though it’s the first thing you read in this book. Nothing is assumed, and everything is cross-referenced. Technical terms and topics, when they come up, are neatly shoved to the side, where you can easily avoid reading them. The idea here isn’t for you to master anything. This book’s philosophy is to help you look it up, figure it out, and get back to work.
How to Use This Book
You hold in your hands an active book. The topics between this book's yellow-and-black covers are all geared toward getting things done in Word 2016. All you need to do is find the topic that interests you and then read.
Word uses the mouse and keyboard to get things done, but mostly the keyboard.
I use the word click to describe the action of clicking the mouse’s main (left) button.
This is a keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+P. Press and hold down the Ctrl (Control) key and type the letter P, just as you would press Shift+P to create a capital P.
Sometimes, you must press more than two keys at the same time, such as Ctrl+Shift+T. Press Ctrl and Shift together and then press the T key. Release all three keys.
Commands in Word 2016 exist as command buttons on the Ribbon interface. I may refer to the tab, the command group, and then the button itself to help you locate that command button.
Menu commands are listed like this: Table ⇒ Insert Table. This direction tells you to click the Table command button and then choose the Insert Table item from the menu that appears.
When I describe a message or something else you see onscreen, it looks like this:
Why should I bother to love Evelyn when robots will eventually destroy the human race?
If you need further help in operating your computer, I can recommend my book PCs For Dummies, 13th Edition (Wiley). It contains lots of useful information to supplement what you find in this book.
Foolish Assumptions
Although this book was written with the beginner in mind, I still make a few assumptions. Foremost, I assume that you're a human being, though you might also be an alien from another planet. If so, welcome to Earth. When you conquer our planet, please do Idaho last. Thanks.
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