Special Edition Using Microsoft(R) Office Word 2007 (Special Edition Using)
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THE ONLY WORD 2007 BOOK YOU NEED This book will help you build solid skills to create the documents you need right now, and expert-level guidance for leveraging Word’s most advanced features whenever you need them. If you buy only one book on Word 2007, Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Word 2007 is the book you need.
• Come up to speed quickly with the new Word 2007 Ribbon interface • Streamline document formatting with styles, templates, and themes • Collaborate with others using comments and tracked changes • Master mail merges, master documents, and other advanced features • Manage large documents with indexes, TOCs, and automatically numbered references • Use fields and forms to collect and manage information • Illustrate key concepts with SmartArt diagrams • Create and apply custom themes that control fonts, color schemes, and effects • Manage academic research citations and generate bibliographies in any popular documentation format
On the Web Includes complete instructions and a command reference you can use to customize the Ribbon with RibbonX, even if you have little or no previous XML experience. You can also download additional RibbonX examples and an easy-to-use RibbonCustomizer utility from this book’s companion web site, www.quepublishing.com/usingword2007.
Contents About the Authors xxx Introduction 1
Part I Working with Text Documents Chapter 1 Introducing Word 2007 7 Chapter 2 Creating and Saving Documents 27 Chapter 3 Typing and Editing Text 59 Chapter 4 Using Spelling, Grammar, and Research Tools 95 Chapter 5 Printing and Faxing Documents 133
Part II Formatting a Document Chapter 6 Applying Character Formatting 155 Chapter 7 Formatting Paragraphs and Lists 191 Chapter 8 Creating and Applying Styles and Themes 227 Chapter 9 Formatting Documents and Sections 263 Chapter 10 Using and Creating Project Templates 297 Chapter 11 Working with Nonstandard Document Layouts 319
Part III Tables and Graphics Chapter 12 Creating and Formatting Tables 353 Chapter 13 Working with Photos 395 Chapter 14 Working with Clip Art and the Clip Organizer 425 Chapter 15 Working with Drawings and WordArt 455 Chapter 16 Working with Charts 491 Chapter 17 'Working with SmartArt and Math Formulas 533
Part IV Collecting and Managing Data Chapter 18 Performing Mail and Data Merges 563 Chapter 19 Copying, Linking, and Embedding Data 601 Chapter 20 Working with Fields 631 Chapter 21 Creating Forms 655
Part V Long Documents Chapter 22 Outlining and Summarizing Documents 681 Chapter 23 Using Master Documents 703 Chapter 24 Citing Sources and References 719 Chapter 25 Creating Tables of Contents and Other Listings 747 Chapter 26 Building Effective Indexes 765
Part VI Collaboration and Online Sharing Chapter 27 Collaborating with Others 783 Chapter 28 Protecting and Securing Documents 805 Chapter 29 Online Collaboration with Office Live and SharePoint Team Services 823 Chapter 30 Working with Blogs and Email 847 Chapter 31 Developing Web Content 857 Chapter 32 Using Word to Develop XML Content 875
Part VII Customizing and Extending Word Chapter 33 Macros and Add-Ins 905 Chapter 34 Customizing the Word Interface 935 Chapter 35 Customizing Word 2007’s Ribbon with RibbonX 945
Part VIII Appendixes Appendix A Recovering Files and Repairing Word 975 Appendix B Converting from Other Word Processing Systems 985 Appendix C Accessibility Tips and Techniques 991 Appendix D Command Reference: Word 2003 to Word 2007 999 Appendix E Setting Up and Modifying Office 2007 1017
Index 1025
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| 08-08-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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I don't give long reviews but to let you know I was satisfied with this purchase. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-09-02 11:38:44 EST)
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| 05-29-08 | 1 | 1\9 |
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I am a book guy when it come to learning/solving problems on the computer. I have some great books that help me out every time I have a question. This book is sooo not one of them. I always go to this book first when I have a question about Word 2007, and it always disappoints. What the heck book were all these reviewers using? Awful.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-08-09 00:30:52 EST)
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| 04-25-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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If you have Word 2007 or plan to get it, this book is a must have. Word 2007 is DIFFERENT and then some, but all the answers are here. The large heavy tome is indexed and divided so that the answer to almost any question can be found. It may even tell you more than you care to know. Not a beach read, but a very helpful desk reference.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-05-30 11:08:27 EST)
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| 04-06-08 | 2 | (NA) |
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If you know little to nothing about Word 2007, this is not the book for you. It too often assumes you know the answer to the question you are trying to answer. Common terms that you might use if you are familiar with 2003 are not used here, so the index is useless. Save your money.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-04-25 10:54:27 EST)
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| 04-05-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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This text is excellent if you already know something about using Word 2007. Has many details especially about technical actions needed when you are composing book files.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-04-25 10:54:27 EST)
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| 03-10-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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I needed a quick reference guide to get a crash course using Word 2007. As a graduate student, I have weekly deadlines for papers. I got a new computer with the Windows upgrade. The learning curve was high, and I did not have a lot of time to learn how to use Word. This reference guide was exactly what I needed. The reference is a valuable tool, and worth the money!
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-04-06 10:57:29 EST)
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| 02-22-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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I'm in love! I bought digital access to this book as well as ordering a copy. The day after ordering it, I was able to clean up some serious formatting messes after reading the chapter about styles online. "Using Word 2007" gives clear descriptions of how to use the basic and advanced features, including things like the Style Inspector that Microsoft seems to avoid telling you about in the Help files. It also explains the good and bad points of different options - for example, warning you that if you set a style to Automatically Update and then make a minor formatting change to the text in one location (e.g. applying italics), ALL examples of the style will change to italics whether you want that or not.
If you are forced to work with Word 2007, or support people who have to work with it, you need this book. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-03-13 02:26:42 EST)
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| 02-05-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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I find this book to be easy to read and quick to find answers to my questions. I am a very busy person and this book certainly fits my needs.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-02-22 11:09:29 EST)
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| 08-30-07 | 5 | 3\3 |
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On the cover of this book that is as thick as the Yellow Pages of a big city it says: THE ONLY WORD 2007 BOOK YOU NEED. I believe it. I am a beginner with Microsoft Word and needed something that was comprehensive but didn't pass over the basics and assume that I was born already working in Word.
My experience with Word started with the 2007 Beta version. Microsoft Office had tutorials online which got me started, but they were pretty rudimentary. They explained about the new Ribbon and its usefulness and how to do basic commands using the Ribbon interface. The one strength of their tutorials for a beginner was that you actually downloaded a pre-formatted template and then they took you through the steps about how to change things and build in the basic format they provided. If you need something like that then this book is not for you. In other words, there is no hand holding here. To me this is a good thing. Sure it's harder when it's not spoon-fed to you and you have to do your own thinking, but with something as complicated and multi-faceted as Word 2007 you better be able to fend for yourself. Not that the book leaves stuff out -- not by any means. It just explains all the functions as best as they can be explained and it is up to you to work with the features after they are shown to you. If it shows you how to make a table for example, it shows you what to do but leaves the doing and creating totally up to you. It's for grown-ups. LOL Microsoft's Office Word 2007 is a powerful tool and has gazillions of features. It took a book this size to cover and explain them all, and it looks like the author succeeded. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-02-06 11:11:29 EST)
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| 08-24-07 | 4 | (NA) |
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I was reared on a N0 2 pencil and a fountain pen, at 83 years, I know next to nothing about computers, and word processing. Without Faithe Wempen's book "Using ord 2007" I would be totally lost, and would be unable to use Word 2007 effectively. With the clear step by step instructions and tips in this volume, I find not only can I use Word 2007, but I actually enjoy doing things which I never dreamed possible. I highly recommend "Using Microsoft Office ord 2007" to WWII survivors, and other elderly people who wish to communicate by Word 2007. It's amazing what one can do with this book as a guide.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-08-31 12:04:59 EST)
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| 07-16-07 | 5 | 4\4 |
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After twenty-seven years of machine processing of words -- I certainly don't need a book to regurgitate the basics. This one does just that -- of course -- but it also has the best coverage of all the advanced feastures -- such as references, indexing, collaboration, etc. No computer reference book survives for more than a year or two -- a book needs to be outstanding to be worth the investment. This one is worth it.
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| 07-14-07 | 5 | (NA) |
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As usual, your products are quite simply WONDERFUL! I've been buying Using ... products for 10+ years. Your is the only computer books I buy! Highly recommend them to others! Good job!
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| 06-13-07 | 5 | 2\2 |
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As a long-time Word user, I was looking for a book that covered the advanced aspects of Word 2007 and didn't assume I was a dummy or an idiot. (You know the titles I mean.)
I've been delighted by "Using Microsoft Office Word 2007". It has covered all the things I needed. Also, it has introduced me to new features in Word 2007 that I wouldn't have discovered on my own. If you're already comfortable with earlier versions of Word and want to be quickly up to speed with the new features of 2007, this is just the book for you. (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-14 11:22:45 EST)
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| 06-09-07 | 5 | (NA) |
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This book should be close to anybody new to Word 2007. It takes you through the mysteries of the new program. You must begin somewhere or you'll be lost. This book is a good place to start.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-01 11:39:56 EST)
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| 05-13-07 | 5 | 1\1 |
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I've been very pleased with the detail this book provides. It covers many details of Word that even long time users may not even know exist. The step by step instructions are concise and clear.
A must have for any serious Word user. (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-01 11:39:56 EST)
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| 05-07-07 | 5 | 3\3 |
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Having used the old Word versions, my big problem is to find the stuff I use all the time on this new #@$//*&^% interface. For that purpose, a great index and lots of cross references are needed, and this book does it. Unlike many of these books that are rushed to print, this one was carefully edited so the cross references and index are accurate: correct page numbers and useful entries. It didn't make me like the interface, but I don't know how I'd ever find things without this book.
Not everything is pointed out. By default, keyboard keys Crtl+ subscript all contiguous letters, while I prefer to simply initiate subscripting. That can be done by unchecking the "when selecting, automatically select entire word" box on menu Word Options/Advanced, but I had to find that by accident. Discussion of PASTE is misleading: the suggestion is that use of the simple PASTE command to insert a chart from Excel results only in a picture. However, that is not so: Using COPY and PASTE with the mouse to put a Chart into Word results in a Chart still connected to the Excel spreadsheet, as indicated by selecting the chart and right-clicking, which produces a menu with the option: Edit Data. If you change the Chart on the spreadsheet, the figure in Word changes. Wempen suggests that this happens only if you select Paste Link - not so. An odd omission: there is no listing under files/formats for .pdf (a new capacity of Word), although every other format is listed separately. And no listing for Adobe. It is a Microsoft add-on, but a mention is worth while. (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-01 11:39:56 EST)
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| 05-07-07 | 5 | 2\2 |
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Having used the old Word versions, my big problem is to find the stuff I use all the time on this new #@$//*&^% interface. For that purpose, a great index and lots of cross references are needed, and this book does it. Unlike many of these books that are rushed to print, this one was carefully edited so the cross references and index are accurate: correct page numbers and useful entries. It didn't make me like the interface, but I don't know how I'd ever find things without this book.
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| 02-17-07 | 5 | 7\8 |
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If you look at the page count on this book you'll see that it's one of these big all inclusive computer books. It's intended to tell you everything there is to know about Microsoft Word. And so far as I can tell, it's all there.
But if you're already familiar with Word do you really want to plow through 1100+ pages of stuff, even if it's good stuff. If you're like me, you want to see what's different, what's new that looks like it will be helpful to me. The authors have arranged this book so that the experienced user need read only the first part to quickly get up to speed and start being productive. At the same time, all the rest of the information is there for when you need to find out about something you haven't done before. What's New in Word is a bunch. The biggest change is the user interface. Word (and the rest of the Office programs) now have what they call the Ribbon. This replaces the set of toolbars that used to be across the top of the screen. So this book starts off with a description of the Ribbon. The next chapter goes into the changes in the way you start a new document and how you save it. -- Pretty mundane stuff, but things you'd better know. If you're familiar with Word, finishing part I of this book will probably be enough to get you well started. On the other hand as you go along, there are enough changes in every area -- tables for instance -- that you may want to refer to that section when you are doing one. The screen will certainly look different than it did in earlier versions. (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-01 11:39:56 EST)
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| 02-02-07 | 5 | 14\16 |
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An outstanding book that delves deeply into the most advanced features of Microsoft Word 2007, including topics that lesser books often shy away from like fields, forms, OLE, master documents, XML, and security. If you want a book that will deliver serious in-depth technical content without insulting your intelligence, then this is the one.
Since Word 2007 is such a departure from earlier versions, there's plenty of learning to be done even for us old-timers who have been using word processors since the dawn of computers. In a lot of cases, Word 2007 offers an entirely new feature for the 2007 file format, but also supports the earlier methods for backward compatibility. This book describes both the 2007 and the older features where applicable, so you don't have to keep a book for an earlier version handy to look things up. Case in point: fields. Word 2007 has a whole new set of fields, called content controls, that have some benefits over earlier field types, but they also have some drawbacks, so you would not want to use them all the time necessarily. This book contains complete coverage of the 2007 fields, but it also has complete coverage of all the legacy form field types as well. This book has an attractive, easy-to-read two-color interior design, and strikes a nice balance between text and illustration. The graphics are plentiful, but never seem gratuitous. Graphics are tightly cropped to show only the important parts of the screen, callouts are plentiful, and the figure captions are clear and concise, so you don't have to wonder why you're looking at that particular image. Each chapter concludes with a Troubleshooting section, in which half a dozen or so common problems are discussed and resolved. These are helpful not only when you are actively troubleshooting, but just to file away in your head for future reference. For example, if your Normal.dotm file gets all fouled up, you can just delete it (if you know where to look for it) and Word will create a fresh copy the next time it starts. If you don't need that information now, I guarantee you will eventually need it at some point. Copious cross-referencing is employed to reference related topics in different chapters, which makes the book almost seductive to skim; by reading one topic, I inevitably run into a cross-reference that takes me to something interesting I didn't even realize existed in some other section. The book covers every aspect of word, from cradle to grave, and I can't imagine needing or wanting to do anything with the program that it doesn't explain in detail. Word 2007 is a complex topic, but Using Word 2007 has it well-covered. (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-01 11:39:56 EST)
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| 02-01-07 | 5 | 3\3 |
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An outstanding book that delves deeply into the most advanced features of Microsoft Word 2007, including topics that lesser books often shy away from like fields, forms, OLE, master documents, XML, and security. If you want a book that will deliver serious in-depth technical content without insulting your intelligence, then this is the one.
Since Word 2007 is such a departure from earlier versions, there's plenty of learning to be done even for us old-timers who have been using word processors since the dawn of computers. In a lot of cases, Word 2007 offers an entirely new feature for the 2007 file format, but also supports the earlier methods for backward compatibility. This book describes both the 2007 and the older features where applicable, so you don't have to keep a book for an earlier version handy to look things up. Case in point: fields. Word 2007 has a whole new set of fields, called content controls, that have some benefits over earlier field types, but they also have some drawbacks, so you would not want to use them all the time necessarily. This book contains complete coverage of the 2007 fields, but it also has complete coverage of all the legacy form field types as well. This book has an attractive, easy-to-read two-color interior design, and strikes a nice balance between text and illustration. The graphics are plentiful, but never seem gratuitous. Graphics are tightly cropped to show only the important parts of the screen, callouts are plentiful, and the figure captions are clear and concise, so you don't have to wonder why you're looking at that particular image. Each chapter concludes with a Troubleshooting section, in which half a dozen or so common problems are discussed and resolved. These are helpful not only when you are actively troubleshooting, but just to file away in your head for future reference. For example, if your Normal.dotm file gets all fouled up, you can just delete it (if you know where to look for it) and Word will create a fresh copy the next time it starts. If you don't need that information now, I guarantee you will eventually need it at some point. Copious cross-referencing is employed to reference related topics in different chapters, which makes the book almost seductive to skim; by reading one topic, I inevitably run into a cross-reference that takes me to something interesting I didn't even realize existed in some other section. The book covers every aspect of word, from cradle to grave, and I can't imagine needing or wanting to do anything with the program that it doesn't explain in detail. Word 2007 is a complex topic, but Using Word 2007 has it well-covered. (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-02-17 13:53:01 EST)
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