Office X for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

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You can also create clipping files from Word pictures or drawing objects. Just select

the object and drag it to the desktop. (Word names it a picture clipping, as shown in

Figure 2-3.)

Navigating Your Documents

Word X offers a multitude of ways to navigate your document, some of which aren’t

as immediately obvious as the scroll bar.

Tip: Using the scroll bar has its own reward; as you drag the “elevator” scroll-box handle up and down, a

pop-out tooltip balloon identifies the major headings in your document as you scroll by. By scanning this

readout, you’ll know exactly where you’ll be when you stop scrolling.

What the Keys Do

It’s by far one of the most frequently asked questions among new (and unself-con-

scious veteran) Mac users: What on earth are all of those extra keys for on the stan-

dard Mac keyboard?

Figure 2-3:

You can rename a clipping file as you would

any Finder icon: For example, click its name

once, then twitch the mouse to make the

“renaming rectangle” appear.

one there yourself. (Don’t try that in TextEdit.)

That’s Word’s Smart Cut and Paste feature. You turn it on

and off by the checkbox on the Word→Preferences→Edit

panel—but turning it off is probably a bad idea. The golden

rule of computing: Whenever your software offers to take

over boring, microscopic, annoying work for you, let it.

Have you noticed that when you cut and paste in Word,

your pasted text is always perfectly spaced? In other words,

when you paste a word with a space after it in front of a

period, the extra space magically disappears and the pe-

riod comes right smack after the word, where it belongs.

And when you paste one word after another, a space ap-

pears between the two words, even if you forgot to put

Cut Out to Be Smart

GEM IN THE ROUGH

Moving

Text Around