Datasheet

There are three other ways to view your document: Full Screen Reading, Web
Layout, and Outline. None of these views has anything to do with basic word
processing. Refer to Chapter 26 for more information on these different views.
 Word automatically switches to Print Layout view from Draft view when
necessary. So, when you’re working in Draft view and you want to edit
a header or insert a picture, Print Layout view is activated. You need
to manually switch back to Draft view, if that’s your preferred way of
using Word.
 One thing that’s visible in Draft view that you don’t find in Print Layout
view is a thick, horizontal bar on the left side of the page, just below a
document’s last line of text. That heavy bar marks the end of your docu-
ment. You cannot delete the bar — unless you switch from Draft view to
Print Layout view.
 Draft view may also be referred to as Normal view, as it was in previous
versions of Word.
 Writing (or typing, depending on how good you are) is covered in the
next chapter. That would be Chapter 2.
 Any weird stuff you see onscreen (a ¶, for example) is a Word secret
symbol. Chapter 2 tells you why you may want to view those secret sym-
bols and how to hide them if they annoy you.
The mouse pointer in Word
Word processing is a keyboard thing, although the computer’s mouse comes
in handy. In Word, you use the mouse to choose commands and to move the
insertion pointer around as you edit text.
The mouse pointer changes its look as you work in Word:
For editing text, the mouse pointer becomes the I-beam.
For choosing items, the standard eleven o’clock mouse pointer is used.
For selecting lines of text, a one o’clock mouse pointer is used.
In Print Layout view, the mouse pointer may change its look when
click-and-
type
mode is active: Lines appear to the left and right of, and below, the
I-beam mouse pointer. Refer to Chapter 33 for more information on using
click-and-type.
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