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Clive Huggan
Dear all,
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS ABOUT A *NON-COMMERCIAL* RESOURCE BASED IN PART ON
ACCUMULATED ADVICE ON WORD FOR THE MAC FROM THIS NEWSGROUP
The March 2007 edition of my notes on Word -- titled "Bend Word to Your
Will" -- is now available for downloading from the Word MVPs' site
(http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html).
If you have downloaded the notes before: This edition incorporates more
coverage of features of Word 2004, as well as dozens of improvements made
since the previous edition of October 2006. To see exactly what has changed,
open the new edition, then choose the Tools menu -> Track changes -> Compare
documents -> navigate to the previous edition on your Mac -> Open -- then
wait!
If you haven't downloaded the notes before, read on (and you can check the
contents via the web page shown above).
Enjoy! I hope you bend Word to *your* will!
Cheers,
Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
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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 five 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 words "Table of contents" in the third paragraph.
The main things that interest me are those that improve my 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 usually 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 frustration 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, simple 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. The ideas
in the notes don't require you to be a geek -- I'm not one -- although some
of the solutions are best absorbed with the TV off!
I don't cover graphics, equations or networked configurations of Word,
because I don't use Word in those contexts.
Much of the material draws on, and most is consistent with, advice given in
this newsgroup by Mac Word gurus John McGhie, Daiya Mitchell, Elliott Roper,
Bob Jones, Michel Bintener, Beth Rosengard, Corentin Cras-Méneur, Paul
Berkowitz, John McGimpsey, Jim Gordon and others. Like so many people, I've
greatly benefited from their freely given expertise, especially on the
microsoft.public.mac.office.word newsgroup.
WHAT VERSIONS DO THE NOTES COVER?
I wrote the first editions of the notes for Word 2001, after moving from
Word 5.1a. However, I also took into account other versions (Mac and PC)
that I've used in the past 20 years. I skipped Word X, then moved to Word
2004. The new edition contains more coverage of the changes introduced in
Word 2004 that I have found useful.
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 200 pages long,
and you'd be crazy to read it from end to end, just as you would with a
dictionary. Instead, it's best to dip into particular topics via the "Find"
command and the table of contents.
(However, it's *essential* to read the front end of the document --
especially pages 3 and 5, so you can select some Word settings that will
allow you to use the document effectively. You'll also benefit from the
introductory section starting on page 17 -- there are some really 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.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS ABOUT A *NON-COMMERCIAL* RESOURCE BASED IN PART ON
ACCUMULATED ADVICE ON WORD FOR THE MAC FROM THIS NEWSGROUP
The March 2007 edition of my notes on Word -- titled "Bend Word to Your
Will" -- is now available for downloading from the Word MVPs' site
(http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html).
If you have downloaded the notes before: This edition incorporates more
coverage of features of Word 2004, as well as dozens of improvements made
since the previous edition of October 2006. To see exactly what has changed,
open the new edition, then choose the Tools menu -> Track changes -> Compare
documents -> navigate to the previous edition on your Mac -> Open -- then
wait!
If you haven't downloaded the notes before, read on (and you can check the
contents via the web page shown above).
Enjoy! I hope you bend Word to *your* will!
Cheers,
Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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 five 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 words "Table of contents" in the third paragraph.
The main things that interest me are those that improve my 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 usually 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 frustration 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, simple 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. The ideas
in the notes don't require you to be a geek -- I'm not one -- although some
of the solutions are best absorbed with the TV off!
I don't cover graphics, equations or networked configurations of Word,
because I don't use Word in those contexts.
Much of the material draws on, and most is consistent with, advice given in
this newsgroup by Mac Word gurus John McGhie, Daiya Mitchell, Elliott Roper,
Bob Jones, Michel Bintener, Beth Rosengard, Corentin Cras-Méneur, Paul
Berkowitz, John McGimpsey, Jim Gordon and others. Like so many people, I've
greatly benefited from their freely given expertise, especially on the
microsoft.public.mac.office.word newsgroup.
WHAT VERSIONS DO THE NOTES COVER?
I wrote the first editions of the notes for Word 2001, after moving from
Word 5.1a. However, I also took into account other versions (Mac and PC)
that I've used in the past 20 years. I skipped Word X, then moved to Word
2004. The new edition contains more coverage of the changes introduced in
Word 2004 that I have found useful.
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 200 pages long,
and you'd be crazy to read it from end to end, just as you would with a
dictionary. Instead, it's best to dip into particular topics via the "Find"
command and the table of contents.
(However, it's *essential* to read the front end of the document --
especially pages 3 and 5, so you can select some Word settings that will
allow you to use the document effectively. You'll also benefit from the
introductory section starting on page 17 -- there are some really 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.
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