Chapter 3. Boosting Your Productivity in Word

If you have a project that involves text of any kind — be it correspondence, a report, or what have you — you can harness the power of Word 2010 to quickly and easily generate a professional-looking document.

Word features a host of tools designed to improve your efficiency no matter what type of document you need to create, from prefabricated header and footer styles to building blocks for creating your own styles. The program's Research tools provide quick access to reference materials such as thesauri, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. You can even use Word to translate the text in your document into a different language.

In addition to enabling you to generate your own documents, Word 2010 also eases ...

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