Teach Yourself VISUALLY Word 2016

Elaine Marmel

• Publisher: Visual
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781119074663
• eBook ISBN: 9781119074588
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Desktop Applications
• Index: Computer Science

Visually learn the latest version of Word

Are you a visual learner who prefers to see how Word works instead of hear a long-winded explanation? Teach Yourself Visually Word offers you a straightforward 'show me, don't tell me' approach to working with the newest version of the top-selling application in the Microsoft Office suite. Packed with visually rich tutorials and step-by-step instructions that will help you come to grips with all of Word's capabilities, this accessible resource will quickly and easily get you up and running on using the world's most widely used word processing program.

With Teach Yourself Visually Word, you'll learn how to perform dozens of tasks, including how to set up and format documents and text in Word; work with diagrams, charts, and pictures; use Mail Merge; post documents online; and much more. Covering the newest additions and changes to the latest version of Word, a series of easy-to-follow, full-color tutorials helps you to quickly get up and running with Word like a warrior!

• Tutorials and step-by-step screenshots make lessons easy to follow and understand
• Helps you grasp the basic functions of Word—and beyond
• Walks you through Word's new features
• Demonstrates how to set up, format, and edit Word documents

If you're new to the world of Word and want a highly visual roadmap to help you put it to use for you, Teach Yourself Visually Word has you covered.

CHAPTER 1

Getting Familiar with Word

Are you ready to get started in Word? In this chapter, you become familiar with the Word working environment, including the Word Start screen and Backstage view, and you learn basic ways to navigate and to enter text using both the keyboard and the mouse. You also learn some basics for using Word on a tablet PC.

Open Word

Explore the Word Window

Work with Backstage View

Change the Color Scheme

Find a Ribbon Command

Select Commands

Using Word on a Tablet PC

Work with the Mini Toolbar and Context Menus

Enter Text

Move Around in a Document

Open Word

Office 2016 runs on a 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster x86- or x64-bit processor with 1 or 2 gigabytes (GB) of RAM, based on your processor speed, and your system must be running Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows Server 2012.

This section demonstrates how to open Word from Windows 10. After Word opens, the Word Start screen appears, helping you to find a document on which you recently worked or starting a new document. For other ways to open or start a new document, see Chapter 2.

Open Word

Click in the search box.

The Search menu appears.

Note: The Search menu displays popular news items from Bing, Microsoft’s search engine. You can use the buttons on the left side of the Search menu to, for example, establish search settings for Cortana, the Windows Search assistant.

Start typing the name of the program; for this example, type word.

A list of choices appears that match the letters you typed.

Click the choice matching the program you want to open.

The program opens and displays its Start screen, which helps y...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Chapter 1: Getting Familiar with Word
• Chapter 2: Managing Documents
• Chapter 3: Editing Text
• Chapter 4: Proofreading
• Chapter 5: Formatting Text
• Chapter 6: Formatting Paragraphs
• Chapter 7: Formatting Pages
• Chapter 8: Printing Documents
• Chapter 9: Working with Tables and Charts
• Chapter 10: Working with Graphics
• Chapter 11: Customizing Word
• Chapter 12: Working with Mass Mailing Tools
• Chapter 13: Word and the World Beyond Your Desktop
• End User License Agreement