Special Edition Using Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007

Chapter 4. Entering, Editing, and Formatting Text

In this chapter

Entering Text: More than Just Typing

Selecting Text

Finding and Replacing Text

Using AutoCorrect to Type Faster

Using and Managing Fonts

Common Formatting Options

Undoing and Redoing Changes

Can You Really Enter Text by Speaking?

Troubleshooting

Extra Credit: Using AutoCorrect to Add a Scanned Signature to Word Documents

Entering Text: More than Just Typing

How hard can it be to enter text in an Office document? You click, you type. As long as your fingers hit the right keys, everything just happens, right? Well, not exactly. What happens when you need to enter a character that isn’t on the keyboard: a currency symbol such as ¥, perhaps, or a Greek character such as Π?

In fact, ...