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Clive Huggan
Dear all,
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS ABOUT A *NON-COMMERCIAL* RESOURCE BASED IN PART ON
ACCUMULATED ADVICE FROM THIS NEWSGROUP
The latest version of my notes on Word -- titled "Bend Word to Your Will" --
is now available for downloading from the Word MVPs' site,
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/Bend/BendWord.htm
WHAT IS "BEND WORD TO YOUR WILL"?
"Bend Word to Your Will" is not a commercial product for sale -- it's free.
It's a dictionary-style (mainly) set of notes on Word that I've been
continually adding to and polishing for the past four years. They are "real
life" notes, which I keep consulting in my professional work, especially
when explaining some of Word's features to my colleagues.
COVERAGE
To see what the document contains before downloading it, on the download
page you can click on the orange words "Article table of contents".
The notes are centred on features that improve speed and efficiency --
especially in working on long and/or complex documents. I'm especially
interested in reducing the chances of corruption in my documents, which are
distributed back and forwards between many people, on PCs and Macs.
Among many dozens of topics in the notes, I first describe ways of amending
Word's settings to keep control of what you're doing. I cover styles
extensively -- they're essential for saving time and fuss in long documents.
I describe how easy it is to modify toolbars to reflect your own way of
working rather than keeping the averaged-out preferences of Word's tens of
millions of users. I explain how I use AutoCorrect to expand abbreviated
terms that I type in "shorthand" much of the time, and I describe a small
number of very useful macros. Sources of further information on Word are
also provided.
But the above is only a small sample of the coverage.
The emphasis is on configuring your copy of Word as *you* see fit, to make
it suit your needs -- not on making the documents themselves so advanced
that they confuse people who have only a basic knowledge of Word.
I don't cover graphics, equations or networked configurations of Word,
because I don't use Word in those contexts.
Most of the material draws on, and is consistent with, advice given in this
newsgroup by MacWord gurus John McGhie, Beth Rosengard, John McGimpsey, Paul
Berkowitz, Daiya Mitchell, Elliott Roper, Corentin Cras-Méneur, Jim Gordon
and others. Like so many others, I've greatly benefited from their freely
given expertise.
WHAT VERSIONS DO THE NOTES COVER?
I wrote the first editions of the notes when I used Word 2001 after moving
from Word 5.1a, although I also took into account other versions (Mac and
PC) that I've used in the past 20 years. I recently moved to Word 2004 after
skipping Word X. The new edition includes many of the changes introduced in
Word 2004.
WHAT'S THE STRUCTURE OF THE NOTES?
"Bend Word to your Will" is a Word document, for the most part structured
like a dictionary with broadly self-contained articles. It's intended to be
used on-screen rather than to be printed out, because the articles have
clickable hyperlinks leading to related topics. It's about 170 pages long,
and you'd be crazy to read it from end to end, any more than you would with
a dictionary. Instead, it's best to leap into particular topics via the
"Find" command and the table of contents.
(However, it's essential to read the introductory section starting on page
17, because there are some important tips in there for getting the most out
of the notes.)
Accompanying the "Bend Word to your Will" document (but downloadable
separately) is a Word template. Among other things, it includes a skeleton
for long documents that I create using techniques covered in "Bend Word to
your Will", and macros that I mention in "Bend Word to Your Will". If you
aren't familiar with templates, don't bother to download it -- you can get
it later if you need it.
Enjoy! Bend Word to *your* will!
Cheers,
Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
===================
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS ABOUT A *NON-COMMERCIAL* RESOURCE BASED IN PART ON
ACCUMULATED ADVICE FROM THIS NEWSGROUP
The latest version of my notes on Word -- titled "Bend Word to Your Will" --
is now available for downloading from the Word MVPs' site,
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/Bend/BendWord.htm
WHAT IS "BEND WORD TO YOUR WILL"?
"Bend Word to Your Will" is not a commercial product for sale -- it's free.
It's a dictionary-style (mainly) set of notes on Word that I've been
continually adding to and polishing for the past four years. They are "real
life" notes, which I keep consulting in my professional work, especially
when explaining some of Word's features to my colleagues.
COVERAGE
To see what the document contains before downloading it, on the download
page you can click on the orange words "Article table of contents".
The notes are centred on features that improve speed and efficiency --
especially in working on long and/or complex documents. I'm especially
interested in reducing the chances of corruption in my documents, which are
distributed back and forwards between many people, on PCs and Macs.
Among many dozens of topics in the notes, I first describe ways of amending
Word's settings to keep control of what you're doing. I cover styles
extensively -- they're essential for saving time and fuss in long documents.
I describe how easy it is to modify toolbars to reflect your own way of
working rather than keeping the averaged-out preferences of Word's tens of
millions of users. I explain how I use AutoCorrect to expand abbreviated
terms that I type in "shorthand" much of the time, and I describe a small
number of very useful macros. Sources of further information on Word are
also provided.
But the above is only a small sample of the coverage.
The emphasis is on configuring your copy of Word as *you* see fit, to make
it suit your needs -- not on making the documents themselves so advanced
that they confuse people who have only a basic knowledge of Word.
I don't cover graphics, equations or networked configurations of Word,
because I don't use Word in those contexts.
Most of the material draws on, and is consistent with, advice given in this
newsgroup by MacWord gurus John McGhie, Beth Rosengard, John McGimpsey, Paul
Berkowitz, Daiya Mitchell, Elliott Roper, Corentin Cras-Méneur, Jim Gordon
and others. Like so many others, I've greatly benefited from their freely
given expertise.
WHAT VERSIONS DO THE NOTES COVER?
I wrote the first editions of the notes when I used Word 2001 after moving
from Word 5.1a, although I also took into account other versions (Mac and
PC) that I've used in the past 20 years. I recently moved to Word 2004 after
skipping Word X. The new edition includes many of the changes introduced in
Word 2004.
WHAT'S THE STRUCTURE OF THE NOTES?
"Bend Word to your Will" is a Word document, for the most part structured
like a dictionary with broadly self-contained articles. It's intended to be
used on-screen rather than to be printed out, because the articles have
clickable hyperlinks leading to related topics. It's about 170 pages long,
and you'd be crazy to read it from end to end, any more than you would with
a dictionary. Instead, it's best to leap into particular topics via the
"Find" command and the table of contents.
(However, it's essential to read the introductory section starting on page
17, because there are some important tips in there for getting the most out
of the notes.)
Accompanying the "Bend Word to your Will" document (but downloadable
separately) is a Word template. Among other things, it includes a skeleton
for long documents that I create using techniques covered in "Bend Word to
your Will", and macros that I mention in "Bend Word to Your Will". If you
aren't familiar with templates, don't bother to download it -- you can get
it later if you need it.
Enjoy! Bend Word to *your* will!
Cheers,
Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
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. Then again, you could just drag the My Templates