Word 2002: The Complete Reference [Paperback]

Peter Weverka (Author), Diane Poremsky (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0072132442 | ISBN-13: 978-0072132441 | Publication Date: April 27, 2001 | Edition: 1

Master the powerful new features in Microsoft Word 2002. This complete reference provides comprehensive coverage of the changes and updates to Word, focusing on the new formatting and proofing options, enhanced graphics capabilities, new file search methods, and customization options, including new speech recognition capabilities. You'll also get an introduction to VBA and will learn to write macros to automate repetitive Word tasks.

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The Most Authoritative Volume Available on Word 2002!

Create powerful, effective documents with help from this comprehensive resource. Unleash the power of Word to achieve greater impact from business letters and memos, academic pursuits, record-keeping, and mass mailing--any written document. Master features that are new to this version of Word, including speech-recognition, the task panes, the Clip Organizer, and the foreign-language translator. For old hands at Word, this book shows how to dig deeper and get more out of AutoText, styles, macros, the drawing tools, online forms, and other Word features. Whatever your goals, Word 2002: The Complete Reference will help you communicate creatively and effectively.

• Take advantage of task panes, Smart Tags, and Word's new user interface
• Customize Word--create personalized menus, key presses, toolbars, and templates
• Streamline your work with styles, the AutoCorrect mechanism, and macros
• Retrieve data from Excel, Access, and other programs--and create Web pages in Word
• Use Word as a means of collaborating with others
• Mass-mail form letters, labels, and envelopes
• Work quickly and thoroughly with helpful text-manipulation and editing shortcuts
• Proof your work and eliminate errors with a series of upgraded tools
• Create effective newsletters, brochures, or scholarly papers with graphics and text boxes
• Make editorial changes on the preview screen and troubleshoot your printer

About the Author

Peter Weverka (San Francisco, CA) is the author of Quicken 98 and Quicken 99 for Busy People, Quicken 6 for Windows for Busy People, as well as a co-author of Office 97: The Complete Reference and Word 2000: The Complete Reference (all OMH titles). Peter has edited more than 80 computer books ranging from word processors to databases and the Internet. His humorous articles and stories have appeared in Harper's Exquisite Corpse.

Product Details

• Paperback: 955 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (April 27, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072132442
• ISBN-13: 978-0072132441
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,263,561 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Peter Weverka is the author of Word For Dummies Quick Reference, Microsoft Money For Dummies, and other computer books. His humorous nontechnology articles have also delighted readers of Harper's.

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56 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Most Comprehensive Book on Word 2002, May 19, 2001

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"pietro25744" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Word 2002: The Complete Reference (Paperback)

My book was designed to make learning Word 2002 as easy and comfortable as possible. This book is decidedly different from other books about Word 2002 for the following reasons.

A TASK-ORIENTED APPROACH

Most computer books describe how to use the software, but this book explains how to complete tasks. I assume you came to this book because you want to know how to do something -- print form letters, run text in columns, generate an index. You came to the right place.

Information in this book is presented by topic, not according to where it is found on the Word menus. Nothing infuriates me more in a Word book than an exhaustive table that describes, for example, all the options on the Save tab in the Options dialog box (choose Tools | Options to get there). Just because all those options are found in the same place doesn't mean they have a lot in common or should be described in the same place in a book. No, the options on the Save tab pertain to many different tasks. In this book, you will find a description of each Save tab option in the appropriate place -- as part of instructions for completing a task.

ACCESSIBILITY OF INFORMATION

This book is a reference, and that means readers have to be able to find instructions quickly. To that end, the editors and I took great pains to make sure that the material in this book is well organized. You are invited to turn to a chapter, thumb through the pages, and find out by reading the headings which strategies are available for completing a task. The descriptive headings help you find information quickly. The bulleted and numbered lists make following instructions simpler. The tables make options easier to understand. I want you to be able to look down the page and see in a heading or list the name of the topic that concerns you.

TOP TEN LISTS

At the end of each chapter in this book is a Top Ten List -- a list of ten tips, tricks, or problem-solving techniques. Rather than distribute these valuable nuggets of knowledge throughout a chapter, I put them all at the end so you can find them easily.

ANNOTATED FIGURES

Most of the figures in this book are annotated. They are thoroughly annotated, in fact. A savvy Word user can simply look at the figures to find out how to complete tasks.

EASY-TO-UNDERSTAND SCREEN SHOTS

All of the screen shots in this book show only what you need to see to understand a Word feature. When instructions refer to one part of the screen, only that part of the screen is shown. In most computer books, you see the entire Word screen whether you need to see the whole screen or a corner of it. I took great care to make sure that the figures and illustrations in this book serve to help you understand Word and know how to make the best use of the program.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR "UNDOING IT"

Every computer book tells you how to do tasks, but when you complete a task at the computer, half the time you discover that you shouldn't have completed it. In other words, you want to undo what you just did. In this book, wherever instructions for completing a task are given, instructions for undoing it follow. You are entitled to change your mind, and if you change your mind about doing a task for which I give instructions, all you have to do is follow the instructions for "undoing it."

CROSS-REFERENCES

This book is filled to the brim with cross-references. Word 2002 is even more complicated than its predecessor, and most features are linked to other features. You have to know about styles to create a Web page. You have to know about bookmarks to insert a cross-reference. Most books refer you vaguely to another chapter, but the cross-references in this book point to specific headings in other chapters. In this book, you know by name exactly where to go to get the background information you need to complete a task.

PRACTICE DOCUMENTS

This book comes with practice documents that you can download from the publisher's Web site.

Whatever Word 2002 book you purchase, good luck in your adventures with Word!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful, very useful book, July 13, 2005

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Dave - See all my reviews

This review is from: Word 2002: The Complete Reference (Paperback)

A dog-eared copy of this book has been sitting on my desk for the past four years. I consult it several times a week, always find what I'm looking for in it, and never have trouble finding the information I need.

I recommend this easy to read and understand book to anyone has to wrestle with Word.