Now that we’re at lesson 7 in this series, take a moment to pat yourself on the back a bit. After all, you’ve learned quite a bit so far — how to get around in Microsoft Word’s Ribbon interface, how to open and navigate in existing documents, how to create and save new documents, and some basic character and paragraph formatting skills. That’s a lot!
So for lesson eight, we’re going to pull back a little bit and talk about page formatting. When I say “page formatting,” I mean what size/format paper you print on (US letter or legal size, A3 or A4, envelopes, etc.), what page margins you use, what page orientation (portrait or landscape), and whether your document has headers or footers containing information like titles, page numbers, or whatever else you need.
Let’s get to it.
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You don’t need me to tell you what a paragraph is — it’s a block of text that ends with a “hard return” you insert by pressing the Enter key. In Microsoft Word, paragraph formatting covers such attributes as justification, indentation, line spacing, and what WordPerfect calls “block protect” (called something else by Word, but we’ll get to that in a moment). Some of these instructions will be familiar to anyone who’s worked with a Windows word processor before, but here’s how you can set each of these attributes in Microsoft Word:
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In this installment of The WordPerfect Lover’s Guide to Word, we turn our attention to the basics of formatting characters: fonts; bold, italic and underline; subscript, superscript, strikethrough, small caps and other specialized formatting; and how to change the case (uppercase, lowercase, etc.) of already-typed text.
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Microsoft Word’s really not very different from most word processors in the way it retrieves current documents, and most common editing tasks will be familiar to anyone who’s worked with a word processor in Microsoft Windows. Let’s go over some of the basics.
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Creating a new document in Microsoft Word is easy. That said, there’s always more than one way to do something in Word, and I want you to see several of them so you can pick your favorite. First, let’s look at the various ways you can start a new document.
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If you’re coming to Microsoft Word from WordPerfect (or even upgrading from Microsoft Word 2003 or earlier), the first task is understanding the Ribbon interface. Microsoft introduced this into its Office suite in the 2007 version, and it’s very different from what you’re used to in Windows programs, particularly WordPerfect.
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I love nice, neat, fully-justified text in documents (really, who doesn’t?). It’s one of the great advantages word processing has over the ancient typewriter. But it can introduce some problems into your documents when the spacing between words (or even within words) isn’t quite right. Calculating that extra spacing is apparently still a real challenge for Microsoft Word. Sometimes, however, we as users unwittingly introduce problems that make it even more of a challenge.
For instance, if you’ve been known to copy text from your old documents into your new ones, you’ve probably seen this happen:
What on earth is going on with that last line? You know there aren’t really a bunch of extra spaces between the words. What else could be causing this, though?
Before you resign yourself to setting all your paragraphs to be left-justified, let me show you a little tip that’ll save you the trouble.
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