A small Reader Guide
If you have not worked
with Word before, I recommend that you read this book from cover to cover and
use it for reference later. I have
tried to arrange it in a logical manner, so that it is quick and easy to find
the chapter you need to solve a particular
problem. If you already have some
experience with Word, you will probably want to skip some of the first sections
to start learning about the advanced
functions right away. The
book incorporates a series of step-by-step exercises to illustrate Word’s capabilities.
You could just read through them,
but I recommend that you sit down by your PC and perform them as described. You
learn more efficiently that way, and it
also gives you an opportunity to go beyond the exercise and experiment a
little. I have chosen to keep the
exercises very simple and with only a little text. This might make some of them
seem a trivial, but the aim is to
make sure you understand the simple things that can be easily explained, so you
can use the functionality for more complex
tasks. I have therefore tried to ensure that you do not have to attempt
anything that is out of your
depth. There is nothing worse than having to give up on completing an exercise
because you get stuck. If you
should get stuck anyway, I recommend that you call a good friend or a clever
nephew. There is always someone
around who has experience with Word and might be able to get you started again.
When I ask you to
”click” on something, I mean a click using the left button on the mouse. A
double-click is two clicks in rapid
succession with the left mouse button. If I want you to use the right hand
button on the mouse, I call
it a ”right-click”. Buttons and
menus that you can/must click are always underlined. That means that when you
see underlined words you should
be able to find something similar on the screen to click on.
Now we should be ready
to start the program and have a look at it!
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