Getting Help from Word - Word tutorial

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Normally, getting text into a document and doing basic editing provides plenty of annoyances but formatting and layout offer even more. Don't worry, though: this tutorial shows you how to wrestle most of these annoyances into submission, and how to work around the rest.

Your first order of business is to sort out Normal.dot. If the default font, view, and margins aren't to your liking in Normal.dot, they won't be in any documents based on it eitherwhich means all documents that you don't specifically base on another template.

Next up are direct formatting tips, numbering woes, and advice on using Word's styles. Formatting is easy to apply in moderation but can quickly become confusing, especially when Word starts switching the language on you without warning. Automatic numbered lists can be a great time-saverwhen they work. Styles can save you even more time, provided that you know how to create them, apply them effectively, and deal with their quirks.

This video tutorial shows how to set the document page size to legal standard in Word.

Almost every document needs some text and Word offers many features for helping you create it quickly and accurately without wearing out your fingertips. This tutorial explores how to eliminate annoyances you may encounter when entering and editing text.

In this tutorial, you will be able to work faster and more efficiently with Office 2007, no matter which particular program you may be using at the time.

The first set of buttons on the formatting toolbar control the font and styles. For someone starting out in word, styles might be somewhat confusing. For an experienced user, however, they will make formatting much easier and make it easier for you to navigate through your document – both on the printed page and on the computer screen.