Dummies 101 Book

Introduction

Whom This Book Is For

What's in This Book, Anyway?

Part I: Getting Acquainted with Word 97 For Windows

Part II: Deciding on the Look of Documents

Part III: Printing Documents, Envelopes, and Labels

Part IV: Streamlining Your Work

Part V: Appendixes

Foolish Assumptions about the Reader

About the CD

The Cast of Icons

Conventions of This Book

Part I: Getting Acquainted with Word 97 for Windows

Unit 1: The Fundamentals

Lesson 1-1: Starting Word 97

Lesson 1-2: Creating Your First Document

Lesson 1-3: Saving and Naming a Document

Lesson 1-4: Closing a Document

Lesson 1-5: Opening an Existing Document

Lesson 1-6: Finding Your Way Around the Screen

Lesson 1-7: Exiting Word 97

Unit 1 Quiz

Unit 1 Exercise

Unit 2: Telling Word What You Want It to Do

Lesson 2-1: Giving Commands by Clicking Buttons

Lesson 2-2: Giving Commands with Shortcut Keys

Lesson 2-3: Choosing Menu Commands

Lesson 2-4: Taking Advantage of Shortcut Menus

Lesson 2-5: Filling In Dialog Boxes

Unit 2 Quiz

Unit 2 Exercise

Unit 3: Entering and Editing Text

Lesson 3-1: Selecting Text

Lesson 3-2: Moving Text to New Places On-Screen

Lesson 3-3: Copying and Pasting Text

Lesson 3-4: Deleting Text

Lesson 3-5: Changing the Case of Characters

Lesson 3-6: Entering Symbols and Special Characters

Unit 3 Quiz

Unit 3 Exercise

Unit 4: Moving Around in Documents

Lesson 4-1: Using the Scroll Bars to Move Around

Lesson 4-2: Using the Keyboard to Move Around

Lesson 4-3: Browsing Around in a Document

Unit 4 Quiz

Unit 4 Exercise

Unit 5: Getting Help When You Need It

Lesson 5-1: Getting Help by Category

Lesson 5-2: Using the Help Index

Lesson 5-3: Asking the Office Assistant for Help

Lesson 5-4: Using the Help Buttons

Unit 5 Quiz

Unit 5 Exercise

Part I Review

Unit 1 Summary

Unit 2 Summary

Unit 3 Summary

Unit 4 Summary

Unit 5 Summary

Part I Test

Part I Lab Assignment

Step 1: Opening the letter document

Step 2: Copying text and moving around

Step 3: Saving a document

Step 4: Selecting, copying, and moving text

Step 5: Saving and closing

Part II: Deciding on the Look of Documents

Unit 6: Applying Character Styles to Text

Lesson 6-1: Boldfacing Headings in Documents

Lesson 6-2: Italicizing Words

Lesson 6-3: Underlining Words

Lesson 6-4: Superscript, Subscript, and Strikethrough

Unit 6 Quiz

Unit 6 Exercise

Unit 7: Changing the Appearance of Text

Lesson 7-1: Choosing a Type Size

Lesson 7-2: Choosing a Font for Text

Lesson 7-3: Choosing a Color for Text

Lesson 7-4: Highlighting Text

Unit 7 Quiz

Unit 7 Exercise

Unit 8: Ways of Aligning Text

Lesson 8-1: Centering and Justifying Text

Lesson 8-2: Left- and Right-Aligning Text

Lesson 8-3: Aligning Text with Tabs

Lesson 8-4: Indenting Paragraphs and First Lines

Unit 8 Quiz

Unit 8 Exercise

Unit 9: Laying Out the Page

Lesson 9-1: Handling Line Spacing

Lesson 9-2: Setting Up and Changing the Margins

Lesson 9-3: Starting a New Page

Lesson 9-4: Creating a "Landscape" Document

Unit 9 Quiz

Unit 9 Exercise

Part II Review

Unit 6 Summary

Unit 7 Summary

Unit 8 Summary

Unit 9 Summary

Part II Test

Part II Lab Assignment

Step 1: Changing the font and font size

Step 2: Changing character styles

Step 3: Centering and aligning

Step 4: Indenting paragraphs

Step 5: Line spacing

Part III: Printing Documents and Envelopes

Unit 10: Getting Ready to Print

Lesson 10-1: Telling Word 97 How You Want to Print

Lesson 10-2: Getting a Sneak Preview of a Document

Unit 10 Quiz

Unit 10 Exercise

Unit 11: Printing in Word 97

Lesson 11-1: Printing an Entire Document

Lesson 11-2: Printing a Part of a Document

Lesson 11-3: Printing More Than One Copy

Lesson 11-4: Printing Addresses on Envelopes

Unit 11 Quiz

Unit 11 Exercise

Part III Review

Unit 10 Summary

Unit 11 Summary

Part III Test

Part III Lab Assignment

Step 1: Previewing the entire document

Step 2: Looking for and fixing errors

Step 3: Printing part of a document

Step 4: Printing an entire document

Part IV: Streamlining Your Work

Unit 12: Deciding How the Screen Should Look

Lesson 12-1: Removing and Adding Toolbars

Lesson 12-2: Removing the Ruler

Lesson 12-3: Working in Full Screen View

Lesson 12-4: Working in Page Layout View

Unit 12 Quiz

Unit 12 Exercise

Unit 13: Different Ways of Working on Documents

Lesson 13-1: Working with More Than One Document

Lesson 13-2: Working in Two Places in the Same Document

Lesson 13-3: Zooming In and Zooming Out

Lesson 13-4: Inserting One Document into Another

Unit 13 Quiz

Unit 13 Exercise

Unit 14: Writing Aids

Lesson 14-1: Fixing Spelling and Grammatical Errors

Lesson 14-2: Choosing Words with the Thesaurus

Lesson 14-3: Finding and Replacing Words and Phrases

Lesson 14-4: Using the Undo and Redo Commands

Lesson 14-5: Entering "Automatic" Text

Unit 14 Quiz

Unit 14 Exercise

Unit 15: Some Neat Formatting Tricks

Lesson 15-1: Creating a Numbered List

Lesson 15-2: Creating a Bulleted List

Lesson 15-3: Numbering the Pages in a Document

Lesson 15-4: Creating Headers and Footers

Unit 15 Quiz

Unit 15 Exercise

Part IV Review

Unit 12 Summary

Unit 13 Summary

Unit 14 Summary

Unit 15 Summary

Part IV Test

Part IV Lab Assignment

Step 1: Manipulating the screen

Step 2: Working with windows and other files

Step 3: Clarity and writing

Step 4: Formatting lists and pages

Part V: Appendixes

Appendix A: Answers

Part I Test Answers

Part II Test Answers

Part III Test Answers

Part IV Test Answers

Appendix B: About the CD

System Requirements

Installing the CD

Installing the icons

Installing the exercise files

Accessing the exercise files

Accessing the extra credit unit on the CD

Removing the exercise files

If You've Got Problems (Of the CD Kind)

Index

License Agreement

Installing the CD

Reader Response Card