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Part I: Your Introduction to Word
✓ Unlike in previous versions of Word, the tabs, groups, and command
buttons cannot be changed. You can customize the Quick Access
Toolbar (refer to Figure 1-1), and you can add your own, custom groups
and tabs, a topic I cover in Chapter 29.
The blank place where you write
Word’s equivalent of the mind-numbing, writer’s-block-inducing blank page
can be found in the center part of the Word program window (refer to Figure
1-1). That’s where the text you write, edit, and format appears. Unlike with
a sheet of paper, however, the text you create in Word can be viewed in five
different ways.
Relax. Of all the different ways to view text in Word, only these two are useful
enough to describe here:
✓ Print Layout: Word’s native mode is named Print Layout, shown in
Figure 1-1. In this view, the entire page of text is displayed on the screen
just as it prints. Print Layout view shows graphical images, columns, and
all sorts of other fancy effects. You even see the blank space between
pages, described as the ethereal void in Figure 1-1.
✓ Draft: I prefer using Word in Draft view, which shows only basic text and
not all the fancy features. Because Draft view doesn’t show any fancy
formatting (graphics, columns, or page breaks, for example), you can
more easily concentrate on writing.
The three other ways to view your document are Full Screen Reading, Web
Layout, and Outline. None of these views has anything to do with basic word
processing.
Switch between views by using the View buttons found in the lower right
corner of the Word program window (refer to Figure 1-1). Clicking a button
with the mouse changes the view.
✓ When you’re working in Draft view and you want to edit a header or
insert a picture, Print Layout view is activated. You can switch back
to Drafts view by clicking the Drafts button when you’re done going
graphical.
✓ 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’s text.
✓ Draft view may also be referred to as Normal view, as it was in previous
versions of Word.
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