From the Back Cover

The Most Authoritative Volume Available on Word 2002!

Create powerful, effective documents with help from this comprehensive resource. Unleash the power of Word to achieve greater impact from business letters and memos, academic pursuits, record-keeping, and mass mailing--any written document. Master features that are new to this version of Word, including speech-recognition, the task panes, the Clip Organizer, and the foreign-language translator. For old hands at Word, this book shows how to dig deeper and get more out of AutoText, styles, macros, the drawing tools, online forms, and other Word features. Whatever your goals, Word 2002: The Complete Reference will help you communicate creatively and effectively.

Take advantage of task panes, Smart Tags, and Word's new user interface Customize Word--create personalized menus, key presses, toolbars, and templates Streamline your work with styles, the AutoCorrect mechanism, and macros Retrieve data from Excel, Access, and other programs--and create Web pages in Word Use Word as a means of collaborating with others Mass-mail form letters, labels, and envelopes Work quickly and thoroughly with helpful text-manipulation and editing shortcuts Proof your work and eliminate errors with a series of upgraded tools Create effective newsletters, brochures, or scholarly papers with graphics and text boxes Make editorial changes on the preview screen and troubleshoot your printer

About the Author

Peter Weverka (San Francisco, CA) is the author of Quicken 98 and Quicken 99 for Busy People, Quicken 6 for Windows for Busy People, as well as a co-author of Office 97: The Complete Reference and Word 2000: The Complete Reference (all OMH titles). Peter has edited more than 80 computer books ranging from word processors to databases and the Internet. His humorous articles and stories have appeared in Harper's Exquisite Corpse.