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Microsoft Word Secrets

The Why and How of Getting Word to Do What You Want

Apress

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  • The first book that gets straight to the root of common problems encountered when using Microsoft Word
  • Teaches key expert tricks that will improve your Word processing life quickly and immediately
  • Written by Flavio Morgado, experienced teacher and author of 30+ technical books
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
  2. Character Attributes

    • Flavio Morgado
    Pages 95-148
  3. Select, Find, and Replace Text Characters

    • Flavio Morgado
    Pages 149-185
  4. Quick Document Formatting with Styles

    • Flavio Morgado
    Pages 187-242
  5. Using Recommended Styles

    • Flavio Morgado
    Pages 243-268
  6. Using Heading Styles

    • Flavio Morgado
    Pages 269-338
  7. Page Formatting

    • Flavio Morgado
    Pages 339-414
  8. Section Breaks

    • Flavio Morgado
    Pages 415-486
  9. Formatting Tables

    • Flavio Morgado
    Pages 487-561
  10. Creating and Using Templates

    • Flavio Morgado
    Pages 563-639
  11. Master and Subdocuments

    • Flavio Morgado
    Pages 641-722
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 723-731

About this book

Get hints, useful tricks, and solutions to those annoying problems that plague users of Microsoft’s ever-popular word processing software. This book goes beyond a how-to guide. You will understand where some of Word’s odd behavior comes from, how underlying inheritance rules can affect your formatting, and how to understand and make use of the many hidden characters that Word uses to control the text. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to fly through your Word processing without the usual headaches.


What You'll Learn
  • Understand why you should care about hidden characters, and how they can save you time and headaches
  • Use templates effectively, and produce your own templates
  • Employ fast desktop publishing techniques to produce a polished final document
  • Generate a table of contents and index
  • Fix those pesky tables forever!

Who This Book Is For


Everyone who uses Microsoft Word and has encountered difficulties and felt frustrated and slowed down

Authors and Affiliations

  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Flavio Morgado

About the author

Flavio Morgado is a Food Engineer with an MSc. degree in Food Science and Technology. He is also a VBA Professional developer, a technical writer, an English to Brazilian Portuguese technical translator, and a professor of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Medical Informatics at UNIFESO, a health sciences university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Flavio has written more than 30 books, including Programming Excel with VBA (Apress), and has translated an equal number. He also loves animals and the exquisite nature of the surrounding rain forest, and when he is not teaching, writing, or developing, he can be found running or riding his mountain bike through the Teresopolis Mountains, followed by his 11 dogs, or spending time on the stunningly beautiful beaches of Cabo Frio in Rio de Janeiro.




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eBook USD 29.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 39.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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