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Chapter 1 ✦ Getting Started with Word 2003
Press the Tab key to move, in order, through the control settings and buttons—from upper
left to lower right in the dialog box. (Pressing Shift+Tab takes you through the options and
controls in the opposite direction.) You also can use the mouse to choose a control setting by
clicking the setting.
If a label for a setting, group of settings, or button is dimmed, that item is not available. When
a control setting is available, it is black. You must either click the OK button to save your set-
ting changes or click the Cancel button (or press Esc) to cancel the command before choosing
another command or typing text in a document. If you try to do something outside some dia-
log boxes, Word beeps to remind you that you first must close the dialog box. (Some boxes,
however, are designed to allow you to work in the document while the box remains available
for further use.)
Many dialog boxes use a file folder metaphor to let you choose from sets of related options.
You can organize and reference each set of options by clicking a tab. For example, note the
tab labeled Character Spacing in Figure 1-8. Clicking this tab or pressing Alt+R displays the
Font Character Spacing options, and clicking the Font tab or pressing Alt+N redisplays the
Font options.
Figure 1-8: The Font Character Spacing tab.
With dialog box control settings, you can “converse” with Word 2003 by specifying how you
want the program to affect your text. Word uses various types of controls in dialog boxes,
including tabs, option buttons, check boxes, text boxes, list boxes, and command buttons.
Figure 1-9 shows examples of two different dialog boxes. Table 1-4 describes each of the con-
trol types.
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