The Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Word

By Silvester Rogers

The Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Word allows you to master the World's most widespread and powerful text processing application. You'll be able to easily create professional-looking documents and use different formatting tools and various themes. Our book features colored illustrations for each article so every step is crystal clear for you. Here’s a quick overview of what knowledge our guide provides: • How to Password-protect Documents in Microsoft Word 2010 • Word Bullets and Numbering • How to Create Footnotes and Endnotes in MS Word 2010 • How to Insert Degree Symbol and Other Symbols in Word • How to Create a Table of Contents in MS Word 2010 • How to Choose Paper Size and Source in Microsoft Word 2010
Good luck with your Word studies!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: May 20, 2014
• ISBN: 9781312206878

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Rogers, S.

Microsoft Word 2010 is surely the most powerful text editor of all times. Its capacities are mind-blowing: you can create a newspaper article, a full-scale calendar for printing, or even a webpage!

Our tutorials do not require much attention, so you can learn anything you wanted to know about Word literally at any convenient moment.

ISBN 978-1-312-20687-8

The Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Word 2010 / S. Rogers. - IT Pro Publishing, 2014

© Rogers, S., 2014

© IT Pro Publishing, 2014

Introduction

Microsoft Word 2010 is surely the most powerful text editor of all times. Its capacities are mind-blowing: you can create a newspaper article, a full-scale calendar for printing, or even a webpage!

Our tutorials do not require much attention, so you can learn anything you wanted to know about Word literally at any convenient moment.

Table of Contents

Basic Settings

Microsoft Word Shortcut Keys

How to Change Word 2010 Shortcut Keys

How to Modify the Toolbars and Keyboards in Microsoft Word 2010

How to Modify the Display and Document Settings in Microsoft Word 2010

How to Hide Word 2010 Ribbon

Basic Actions with Documents

How to Change Microsoft Word 2010 Language

How to set Default Font in Word 2010

How to Disable Word 2010 Protected View

How to Encrypt a Document in Microsoft Word 2010

How to Password-protect Documents in Microsoft Word 2010

Formatting

How to Sort Text, Numbers and tables in Microsoft Word 2010

How to Zoom Word 2010

How to set Margins in Word

How to Change Margins in Microsoft Word 2010

How to set Line Spacing in Word

How to Change the Line Spacing in Microsoft Word 2010

How to Change Paragraph Spacing in Word

Section Breaks in Microsoft Word

How to set Tabs in Word

How to Delete Lines in Word

How to Drag Word in Microsoft Word 2010

Working with Documents

How to Alphabetize in Word

How to Highlight in Word 2010 Using Keyboard

How to Use Hyperlinks in Microsoft Word 2010

How to Use Bookmarks in Microsoft Word 2010

Word Bullets and Numbering

How to Remove Formatting in Word

How to set the Headers and Footers in Microsoft Word 2010

How to Create Footnotes and Endnotes in MS Word 2010

How to Indent Text in Word

How to Wrap Text Rround Image in Word

How to Insert Columns in Word

How to Work with Newspaper Columns in Microsoft Word 2010

How to Annotate a Text a Book an Article

How to Block Quotes in Word

How to Change Caps to Lowercase in Word

How to Create Text Box in Word

How to Insert Degree Symbol and Other Symbols in Word

How to Create an index in Microsoft Word 2010

How to Create a Table of Contents in MS Word 2010

How to Show Word Count in Microsoft Word 2010

How to Change Page Background Color in Microsoft Word 2010

How to Add Page Numbers in Word

How to Delete Blank Page in Word

How to Insert and Remove Page Break in Word

How to Choose Paper Size and Source in Microsoft Word 2010

Basic Settings

Microsoft Word Shortcut Keys

How to Change Word 2010 Shortcut Keys

How to Modify the Toolbars and Keyboards in Microsoft Word 2010

How to Modify the Display and Document Settings in Microsoft Word 2010

How to Hide Word 2010 Ribbon

Microsoft Word Shortcut Keys

In this tutorial you are going to learn first how to use Microsoft Word shortcut keys and then how to create your own.

Step # 1 Exploring Current Shortcuts

Lets have a look at some of the most useful shortcuts. First, press Control and P on the keyboard and the Print area will appear, you can use this to set your print settings and then print the document. To exit this window and return to the document you can use another shortcut key, Escape. Another popular shortcut is Control and A which will select everything in your document..

Step # 2 Viewing All Current Shortcuts

Most of the most popular functions in Word already have shortcut keys associated with them. You can see these by clicking File then Options. In the new window click Customize Ribbon on the left and in the frame on the right click the Customize button next to Keyboard Shortcuts. In the window you can see each shortcut by clicking on a category, then a command and below these windows details of the shortcut will appear in the Current keys box.

Step # 3 Adding a Shortcut 

Now, lets have a go at creating our own shortcut. Select a category and then a command that currently doesnt have a shortcut here we are creating