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Word 2007, The Missing Manual is a continuation of Word 2007 For Starters, The Missing Manual. It is not intended for the occasional writer of documents using Microsoft’s Word. In this book, the author, Chris Grover has repeated many, but not all, of the features that are in the “For Starters” book, but this book offers additional information for the accomplished document/writer user.

This book has made clear that all the commands that had been buried in past versions of Word and needed several “clicks” to get to where you wanted to go, has been reorganized according to the task and function. He explains that the “drop down” menu has been replaced by “ribbons” that indicate immediately where you want to go to do whatever it is that you want to make and/or change. The greatest obstacle is unlearning all the strokes that you had to do prior to this version of Microsoft Word 2007. The learning curve of the “ribbons” takes time but once learned it becomes a necessity to the serious writer of any document. It is important to know that every one of the previous Office keyboard shortcuts works the same in Office 2007, - there is no relearning necessary for these actions.

One chapter of this book will show you how to make a plan for your document , so that at any time during the creation of the document you can expand or collapse levels and you can show or hide text, etc. Another chapter of the book deals with inserting section breaks, creating a table of contents, creating and building an index, navigating with hyperlinks, cross referencing the document, and creating footnotes, etc. There is a chapter that deals with creating tables, and moving around the tables, merging and splitting cells and shows how to use various table styles.

In addition Word 2007, The Missing Manual goes into some detail about how to add graphics, video and sound to your document, and shows how to work with shapes, charts, graphs, and adding captions and figure numbers to the graphics. Another chapter is devoted to adding comments by voice , deleting comments, highlighting text, and tracking changes while editing.

In Word 2007, The Missing Manual, the author describes in detail the mysteries of Mail Merge, using the recipient lists, running the mail merge wizard, merging to email. It will teach you how to sort your recipient list, as well as filter the list.

Another chapter deals with sharing documents and collaborating with other people. Under this section, the author includes information on creating web pages and blogs, and creating Forms with Word.

In Part 4 of The Missing Manual for Word 2007, you can find a chapter for customizing Word with macros and other tools. It shows you how to customize the Quick Access Toolbar, create keyboard shortcuts, and change Word’s display. You will find another chapter on changing the security settings, customizing Trust Center Settings and protecting yourself from malicious macros.

You will also learn how to create your own themes and templates. Throughout the book you will find easy explanations as well as diagrams to help you through the maze of new features.

In addition, he has included a section on customizing Word with macros and other tools.