To: John
Mansolf
From: Robert
Grauer and Maryann Barber
Welcome
to the wonderful world of word processing and desktop publishing. Over the next
several chapters we will build a foundation in the basics of Microsoft Word,
then teach you to format specialized documents, create professional looking
tables and charts, publish well-designed newsletters, and create Web pages.
Before you know it, you will be a word processing and desktop publishing
wizard! Practice and practice some more.
The
first chapter presented the basics of word processing and showed you how to
create a simple document. You learned how to insert, replace, and/or delete
text. This chapter will teach you about fonts and special effects (such as boldfacing
and italicizing) and how to use them effectively — how too little is
better than too much.
You will go on to experiment with margins, tab stops, line spacing, and justification, learning first to format simple documents and then going on to longer, more complex ones. It is with the latter that we explore headers and footers, page numbering, widows and orphans (yes, we really did mean widows and orphans). It is here that we bring in graphics, working with newspaper-type columns, and the elements of a good page design. And without question, we will introduce the tools that make life so much easier (and your writing so much more impressive) — the Spell Check, Grammar Check, Thesaurus, and Styles.
If you are wondering what all these things are, read on in the book and proceed with the hands-on exercises. We will show you how to create a simple newsletter, and then improve it by adding graphics, fonts, and WordArt. You will create a simple calendar using the Tables feature, and then create more intricate forms that will rival anything you have seen. You will learn how to create a résumé with your beginner's skills, and then make it look like so much more with your intermediate (even advanced) skills. You will learn how to download resources from the Internet and how to create your own Web page. Last, but not least, run a mail merge to produce the cover letters that will accompany your resume as it is mailed to companies across the United States (and even the world).
It
is up to you to practice for it is only through working at the computer, that
you will learn what you need to know. Experiment and don't be afraid to make
mistakes. Practice
and practice some more.
Our
goal is for you to learn and to enjoy what you are learning. We have great
confidence in you, and in our ability to help you discover what you can do.
Visit the home page for the Exploring
Windows series. You can also send us e-mail. Bob’s address is [email protected]. Maryann’s address
is [email protected]. As you
read the last sentence, notice that Word 2000 is Web-enabled and that the
Internet and e-mail references appear as hyperlinks in this document. Thus, you
can click the address of our home page from within Word, then view the page
immediately, provided you have an Internet connection. You can also click the
e-mail address to open your mail program, provided it has been configured
correctly.
We
look forward to hearing from you and hope that you will like our book book. You
are about to embark on a wonderful journey toward computer literacy. Be patient
and inquisitive, but most of all enjoy. Practice and practice some more.
Practice
and practice some more.Bob’s address is [email protected].
Maryann’s address is [email protected].