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Q&A with Jay Freedman, author of "Microsoft Word 2013 Plain & Simple"
Q. Why is your book timely-- what makes it important right now?
A. With the recent release of Office 2013, and especially with its inclusion in Office 365, there will be many people in homes, schools, and businesses using Word for the first time this year. Many other users will soon upgrade from an earlier version of Office. My book is designed to help those people to find out how to accomplish common tasks in Word 2013.
Q. What information do you hope that readers of your book will walk away with?
A. Although Word is a very large and complex program, the individual tasks and the tools to do the tasks are generally simple and easy to use. When you know what you want to do, "Microsoft Word 2013 Plain & Simple" will recommend the right tool and explain how to use it. The numbered steps and corresponding screen shots take you from start to finish.
Q. What's the most exciting and/or important thing happening in your space?
A. The integration of the Office programs with cloud storage, roaming profiles, SkyDrive, and social media will make documents more interactive and less paper-oriented. The Office Web Apps contribute to the ability to use documents anywhere, from multiple devices.
Q. What are your top 5 tips and tricks?.
A. 1. In Print Layout view, move the cursor onto a heading paragraph. When a triangle appears in the left margin, click it to collapse or expand the text and lower-level headings under it, similar to the behavior of the Outline view.
2. Word 2013 can open most PDF files and format the resulting content as an editable Word document. If the document content appears but isn’t editable, the PDF file contains a picture of the text instead of the text itself. Word can’t convert pictures to text (this process is called Optical Character Recognition or OCR), but Microsoft OneNote might be able to do that for you.
3. If you insert a header building block and then insert a page number building block from the Top Of Page gallery in the Page Number button, the header building block is automatically removed. To combine a header building block and a page number in the same paragraph, use the Current Position gallery on the Page Number button, instead.
4. In Word 2013, when you move the cursor above a column or to the left of a row in a table, a plus sign (+) in a circle appears. Click the plus sign to add a column or row at that point.
5. When you drag a picture object in Word 2013, green alignment guides appear as the edges of the picture touch any of the four page margins, or as the center of the picture aligns with the horizontal or vertical center of the page, or as the top edge of the picture aligns with the top line of a text paragraph.
About the Author
Jay Freedman is a Microsoft MVP in Word who has worked as a textbook editor, technical writer, and software engineer. He has been helping users master Microsoft Word for more than 15 years.
Books with free ebook downloads available Free Download Microsoft Word 2013 Plain & Simple
- Series: Plain & Simple
- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: Microsoft Press (March 26, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0735669384
- ISBN-13: 978-0735669383
- Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 9 x 7.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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Whether you are a novice Word user, just starting with Word 2013, or, like me, a Word veteran (every Windows version of Word since 2.0), you will find plenty of useful information in this book, not just for Word 2013 but for previous Ribbon versions (2007 and 2010), and the concepts introduced are applicable to all versions.
Every new version of Word introduces unfamiliar new features, and even longtime Word users often have a need to try out a previously unused Word function. This book does a great job of describing every feature of Word, both the new ones and the ones that are as old as Word itself.
Mastery of Word is not something that can be achieved overnight--even the earliest versions included a bewildering wealth of functions and features and an almost equal number of frustrating quirks and "gotchas"--but there are several possible approaches to learning Word.
The first approach could be called Total Immersion/Trial and Error--like throwing a kid into a pool to sink or swim. That's certainly how I started, and in Word 2003 and earlier, it was a simpler matter to explore all the toolbars and menus. In the newer Ribbon versions, where some tabs are contextual (they appear only in certain situations, such as when the insertion point is in a table or when a graphic is selected), this method is not as practical, and having a guide such as "Microsoft Word 2013 Plain & Simple" can be a huge help.
Another way to learn about Word is to read other users' questions and answers in online newsgroups and forums, including those sponsored by Microsoft (the current incarnation is the Microsoft Community; the Word forum is at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/word?tab=QnA).