Advanced Microsoft® Office Documents 2007 Edition Inside Out

The Five Tools You Need to Create Any Word Document

People often think that, because Word is so powerful, it would take far too much time to learn everything they need to create complex documents effectively. The fact is that, for all the power of Word, the list of what you need to learn to create most documents is much shorter than most people realize.

If you look through the Word content in a book like this one, you might pass over some things, believing them to be details you don’t need. Well, some features are certainly more applicable to some people than others. For example, you might never need to include mathematical equations in your document; someone else might never need an index or a bibliography.

However, some things that might seem ...