Chapter 2: Wrestling with the Text

In This Chapter

arrow.png Selecting, moving, copying, and deleting text

arrow.png Changing the appearance, size, and color of text

arrow.png Changing the case of letters

arrow.png Inserting foreign characters and symbols

arrow.png Hyperlinking to Web pages and other places in a file

To enter text, all you have to do is wiggle your fingers over the keyboard. Everybody knows that. But not everyone knows all the different ways to change the look and size of text in an Office 2013 file. In this chapter, I explain how to do that as well as how to move, copy, and delete text. You find out how to quickly change a letter’s case and enter a symbol or foreign character. Finally, I show you how to link your files to the Internet by fashioning a hyperlink.

Manipulating the Text

This short but important part of Chapter 2 describes the many techniques for selecting, deleting, copying, and moving text. You find an inordinate number of tips on these pages because there are so many shortcuts for manipulating text. ...

Get Office 2013 All-In-One For Dummies now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.