Includes index.

Overview: The bestselling beginner's guide to Microsoft Word. Written by the author of the first-ever For Dummies book, Dan Gookin, this new edition of Word For Dummies quickly and painlessly gets you up to speed on mastering the world's number-one word processing software. In a friendly, human, and often irreverent manner, it focuses on the needs of the beginning Word user, offering clear and simple guidance on everything you need to know about Microsoft Word 2016, minus the chin-scratching tech jargon. Whether you've used older versions of this popular program or have never processed a single word, this hands-on guide will get you going with the latest installment of Microsoft Word. In no time, you'll begin editing, formatting, proofing, and dressing up your Word documents like a pro. Plus, you'll get easy-to-follow guidance on mastering more advanced skills, like formatting multiple page elements, developing styles, building distinctive templates, and adding creative flair to your documents with images and tables. Covers the new and improved features found in the latest version of the software, Word 2016. -- Shows you how to master a word processor's seven basic tasks. -- Explains why you can't always trust the spell checker. -- Offers little-known keyboard shortcuts. -- If you're new to Word and want to spend more time on your actual work than figuring out how to make it work for you, this new edition of Word 2016 For Dummies has you covered-- Introduction: -- About this book -- How to use this book -- Foolish assumptions -- What's not here -- Icons used in this book -- Where to go from here -- Part 1: Your Introduction To Word: -- Hello, Word!: -- Your Word Day: -- Starting Word the traditional way -- Starting Word the best way -- Opening a document to start Word -- Behold The Word Program: -- Working the Word Start screen -- Examining Word's main screen -- Working the Ribbon -- Showing and hiding the Ribbon -- Changing the document view -- Making text larger or smaller -- End Your Word-Processing Day: -- Quitting Word -- Closing a document without quitting Word -- Setting Word aside -- Typing Chapter: -- Input Devices Galore: -- Using the PC keyboard -- Understanding the mouse pointer -- Keyboard Dos And Don'ts: -- Following the insertion pointer --Whacking the spacebar -- Backing up and erasing -- Pressing the Enter key -- Stuff That Happens While You Type: -- Watching the status bar -- Observing page breaks -- Working collapsible headers -- Dealing with spots and clutter in the text -- Understanding colorful underlines -- Part 2: Your Basic Word: -- To And Fro In A Document: -- Document Scrolling: -- Working the vertical scroll bar -- Using the horizontal scroll bar -- Scrolling with the mouse wheel -- Move The Insertion Pointer: -- Commanding the insertion pointer -- Moving in small increments -- Moving from beginning to end -- Go back to where you once edited -- Go to wherever with the Go To Command -- Text Editing: -- Remove Text You Don't Want: -- Deleting single characters -- Deleting a word -- Deleting more than a word -- Split And Join Paragraphs: -- Making two paragraphs from one -- Making one paragraph from two -- Soft and Hard Returns -- Undo Mistakes With Undo Haste: -- Undoing the Undo command with redo -- Using the Repeat command -- Search For This, Replace It With That: -- Text Happily Found: -- Finding a tidbit o' text -- Scouring your document with Advanced Find -- Finding stuff you can't type -- Replace Found Text: -- Replacing one thing with another -- Replacing it all at once -- Finding and replacing formatting -- Blocks O' Text: -- Meet Mr Block -- Mark A Block Of Text: -- Using the keyboard to select text -- Marking a block with the mouse -- Using the F8 key to mark a block -- Blocking the whole dang-doodle document -- Deselecting a block -- Manipulate The Block Of Text: -- Copying a block -- Moving a block -- Setting the pasted text format -- Copying or moving a block with the mouse -- Viewing the clipboard -- Spell It Write: -- Check Your Spelling: -- Fixing a misspelled word -- Dealing with incorrectly flagged words -- AutoCorrect In Action: -- Undoing an AutoCorrect correction -- Adjusting AutoCorrect settings -- Grammar be good -- All-at-once document proofing -- Spell Check And Grammar Settings: -- Undoing the ignore all command -- Customizing the custom dictionary -- Disabling automatic spell check -- Curtailing grammar checking -- Documents New, Saved, Opened, And Closed: -- Some terms to get out of the way -- Behold! A new document -- Save Your Stuff!: -- Saving a document the first time -- Dealing with document-save errors -- Saving or updating a document -- Forgetting to save before you quit -- Open A Document: -- Using the Open command -- Opening one document inside another -- Close a document -- Recover a draft -- Publish Your Document: -- Your Document On Paper: -- Previewing before printing -- Printing the whole document -- Printing a specific page -- Printing a range of pages -- Printing on both sides of the page -- Printing odd and even pages -- Printing a block -- Printing more than one copy of something -- Choosing another printer -- Canceling a print job -- Electronically Publishing Your Document: -- Preparing a document for sharing -- Sending a Word document via email -- Making a PDF -- Exporting your document -- Part 3: Fun With Formatting: -- Character Formatting: -- Text-formatting techniques -- Basic Text Formats: -- Choosing a font -- Applying character formats -- Text Transcending Teensy To Titanic: -- Setting the text size -- Nudging text size -- More Colorful Text: -- Coloring the text -- Shading the background -- Change text case -- Clear character formatting -- Behold the font Dialog Box -- Paragraph Formatting: -- Paragraph-Formatting Rules And Regulations: -- Formatting a paragraph -- Locating the paragraph-formatting commands -- Justification And Alignment: -- Line up on the left! -- Everyone center! -- Line up on the right! -- Line up on both sides! -- Make Room Before, After, Or Inside Paragraphs: -- Setting the line spacing -- Making space between paragraphs -- Paragraph Indentation Madness: -- Indenting the first line of a paragraph -- Making a hanging indent (an out-dent) -- Indenting a whole paragraph -- Using the ruler to adjust indents -- Tab Formatting: -- Once Upon A Tab: -- Seeing tab characters -- Seeing tab stops -- Using the ruler to set tab stops -- Using the tabs dialog box to set tabs -- Standard Left Tab Stop: -- Creating a basic tabbed list -- Creating a two-tab paragraph thing -- Center tab stop -- Right Tab Stop: -- Making a right-stop, left-stop list -- Building a two-column right-stop list -- Decimal tab -- Bar tab -- Fearless leader tabs -- Tab stop, be gone! -- Page Formatting: -- Describe That Page: -- Setting page size -- Changing orientation (landscape or portrait) -- Setting the page margins -- Using the Page Setup dialog box -- Page Numbering: -- Adding an automatic page number -- Starting with a different page number -- Numbering with roman numerals -- Removing page numbers -- New Pages From Nowhere: -- Starting text on a new page -- Inserting a blank page -- Page Background Froufrou: -- Coloring pages -- Printing colored pages -- Adding a watermark -- More Page Formatting: -- Slice Your Document Into Sections: -- Understanding sections -- Creating a section -- Using sections -- Deleting a section break -- That First Page: -- Adding a cover page -- Inserting a cover page manually -- Headers And Footers: -- Using a preset header or footer -- Creating a custom header or footer -- Working with multiple headers and footers -- Removing a header or a footer -- Style Formatting: -- Big Style Overview: -- Finding the styles -- Using a style -- Discovering the current style -- Removing style formatting -- Make Your Own Styles: -- Creating a style -- Using the Create New Style from Formatting dialog box -- Modifying a style -- Assigning a shortcut key to your style -- Deleting a style -- Style Tips And Tricks: -- Updating the normal style -- Creating heading styles -- Customizing the Style Gallery -- Template And Themes Formatting: -- Instant Documents With Templates: -- Starting a new document by using a template -- Changing a document's associated template -- Templates Of Your Own: -- Creating a template based on a document you already have -- Making a new template from scratch -- Modifying a template -- Theme Of Things: -- Applying a document theme -- Modifying or creating a theme -- Sundry Formatting: -- Weird and fun text effects -- Steal this format! -- Automatic Formatting: -- Enjoying auto-magical text -- Formatting tricks for paragraphs -- Undoing an AutoFormat -- Center a page, top to bottom. Part 4: Spruce Up A Dull Document: -- Borders And Lines: -- Basics Of Borders: -- Putting borders around a paragraph -- Drawing a thick line between paragraphs -- Boxing multiple paragraphs -- Removing borders -- Borders And Shading Dialog Box: -- Creating a fancy title -- Boxing text -- Applying a page border -- Able Tables: -- Put A Table In Your Document: -- Working with tables in Word -- Creating a table -- Un-creating a table -- Deleting a table -- Text In Tables: -- Typing text in a table -- Selecting in a table -- Aligning text in a cell -- Table Modification: -- Adding or removing rows or columns -- Adjusting row and column size -- Merging cells -- Splitting cells -- Making the table pretty -- Adding a table caption -- Columns Of Text: -- All About Columns: -- Making two-column text -- Building a trifold brochure -- Giving up on columns -- Column Termination -- Changing column formats -- Placing a column break -- Lots Of Lists: -- Lists With Bullets And Numbers: -- Making a bulleted list -- Numbering a list -- Creating a multilevel numbered list -- Numbering lines on a page -- Document Content Lists: -- Creating a table of contents -- Building an index -- Adding a list of figures -- Footnotes and endnotes -- Here Come The Graphics: -- Graphical Goobers In Your Text: -- Copying and pasting an image -- Plopping down a picture -- Stealing images from the Internet -- Slapping down a shape -- Sticking things into a shape -- Using WordArt -- Adding a caption -- Image Layout: -- Wrapping text around an image -- Floating an image -- Keeping an image with text -- Image Editing: -- Resizing an image -- Cropping an image -- Rotating an image -- Changing an image's appearance -- Image Arrangement: -- Moving an image hither and thither -- Aligning graphics -- Shuffling images front or back -- Grouping images -- Insert Tab Insanity: -- Characters Foreign And Funky: -- Nonbreaking spaces and hyphens -- Typing character such- -- Inserting special characters and symbols -- Spice up your document with a Text Box -- Fun With Fields: -- Understanding fields -- Adding some useful fields -- Updating a field -- Changing a field -- Deleting fields -- Date And Time: -- Adding the current date or time -- Using the PrintDate field -- Part 5: Rest Of Word: -- Multiple Documents, Windows, And File Formats: -- Multiple Document Mania: -- Arranging open document windows -- Comparing two documents side by side -- Viewing one document in multiple windows -- Using the old split-screen trick -- Many, Many Document Types: -- Understanding document formats -- Opening a non-Word document -- Updating an older Word document -- Word For Writers: -- Organize Your Thoughts: -- Entering Outline view -- Typing topics in the outline -- Rearranging topics -- Demoting and promoting topics -- Expanding and collapsing topics -- Adding a text topic -- Printing an outline -- Large Documents: -- Creating a master document -- Splitting a document -- Dan's Writing Tips: -- Choosing the best word -- Counting every word -- Writing for writers -- Let's Work This Out: -- Comments On Your Text: -- Adding a comment -- Displaying or hiding comments -- Reviewing comments one at a time -- Printing comments (or not) -- Deleting comments -- Yellow highlighter -- Look What They've Done To My Text, Ma: -- Comparing two versions of a document -- Tracking changes as they're made -- Reviewing changes -- Collaborate On The Internet: -- Sharing a document -- Checking updates -- Mail Merge Mania: -- About Mail Merge: -- Understanding Word's mail merge jargon -- Reviewing the mail merge process -- Using the Mail Merge Wizard -- Main Document: -- Creating a mail merge form letter -- Creating mail merge email messages -- Creating mail merge envelopes -- Recipient List: -- Building a new recipient list -- Using an already created recipient list -- Grabbing a recipient list from Outlook -- Editing a recipient list -- Fold in the fields -- Preview the merged documents -- Mail Merge Ho!: -- Merging to a new set of documents -- Merging to the printer -- Merging to email -- Labels And Envelopes: -- Labels Everywhere: -- Printing sheets of identical labels -- Printing an address list -- Instant envelope -- More Custom Word: -- Better Status Bar -- Quick Access Toolbar: -- Adding buttons to the Quick Access toolbar -- Editing the Quick Access toolbar -- Removing items from the quick Access toolbar -- Customize the Ribbon -- Part 6: Part Of Tens: -- Ten Commandments Of Word: -- Thou shalt remember to save thy work -- Thou shalt not use spaces unnecessarily -- Thou shalt not abuse the enter key -- Thou shalt not neglect keyboard shortcuts -- Thou shalt not manually number thy pages -- Thou shalt not force a new page -- Thou shalt not forget thy Undo Command -- Honor thy printer -- Thou shalt have multiple document Windows before thee -- Neglecteth not Windows -- Ten Cool Tricks: -- Automatic save with AutoRecover -- Accelerate the Ribbon -- Ancient word keyboard shortcuts -- Build your own fractions -- Electronic bookmarks -- Lock your document -- Drop cap -- Map your document -- Sort your text -- Map Ctrl+F to the Advanced Find Command -- Ten Bizarre Things: -- Equations -- Video in your document -- Hidden text -- Developer tab -- Hyphenation -- Document properties -- Cross-references -- Collect and paste -- Click-and-type -- Word and the Internet -- Ten Automatic Features Worthy Of Deactivation: -- Bye-bye start screen -- Restore the traditional open and save dialog boxes -- Turn off the mini toolbar -- Select text by letter -- Disable click-and-type -- Paste plain text only -- Disable AutoFormat features (4x) -- Index.