Young / Kay / Wagner WordPerfect 12 For Dummies

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-7645-7979-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, E-Book

Do you take the shortest route instead of the side roads whenyou're trying to get somewhere? Do you choose the streamlinedmodel instead of one loaded with gizmos and gadgets? Do you valueease over extras? WordPerfect 12 is practical software designed tohelp you create great-looking, readable documents. Whetheryou're a recent convert from longhand (welcome to the modernworld) or a word processing pro, WordPerfect12 For Dummiescovers what you need to know, including:

* The basics, like using menus and toolbars, saving, editing, andprinting files, getting help, and more

* Editing and formatting text, adding page numbers, charts, coolfonts, borders, backgrounds, and more

* Using templates to make your life easier

* Creating envelopes and labels and doing multiple mailings

* Using the compatibility toolbars, Workspace Manager, OfficeReady template browser, and wireless office capabilities

* Creating and integrating columns, tables and graphics

* Creating Web pages, Adobe Acrobat Documents, XML files, andeven Microsoft Office documents

* Publishing your document as a Web Page

WordPerfect12 For Dummies was written by Margaret LevineYoung, David C. Kay, and Richard Wagner, all computer gurus whohave written or contributed to other For Dummies books andnumerous computer books. After it shows you how to do what you needto do, it inspires you to do things you probably didn't knowyou could do, such as:

* Changing Workspaces to the WordPerfect Legal mode if you needto create legal documents

* Choosing from 26 different tool bars to fit the way you workand what you're working on

* Using WordPerfect Office Ready for 40 additional templates

* Printing bar codes

* Using Microsoft Outlook contact information in WordPerfect

First you'll get comfortable with WordPerfect 12, and thenyou'll get confident and want to explore more. Whether youare a beginner, need a quick refresher, or want to take advantageof the advanced functions, with its complete index,WordPerfect12 For Dummies will be the reference you relyon.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Young, Margaret Levine

Kay, David C.

Wagner, Richard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1
Part I: Exploring the Essentials 7
Chapter 1: WordPerfect Basics: Out of the Box and Raring to Go9
Chapter 2: Cruising Your Document 23
Chapter 3: Discovering "Perfect" Text Editing 43
Chapter 4: Working with the Spelling and Grammar Tools 65
Chapter 5: On Paper at Last -- Printing Stuff 79
Part II: Formatting Your Text 95
Chapter 6: Giving Your Documents Character 97
Chapter 7: Sensational Sentences and Pretty Paragraphs 111
Chapter 8: Perfect Pages and Dashing Documents 139
Chapter 9: Documents with Style 161
Part III: Making Your Documents Come Alive 181
Chapter 10: Formatting Beyond the Text 183
Chapter 11: Saying It with Pictures 211
Chapter 12: Working with Templates and Office Ready 229
Part IV: All the World's a Page: Going Beyond YourDesktop 253
Chapter 13: Publishing for the Web 255
Chapter 14: Using WordPerfect in a Microsoft Office World267
Chapter 15: Mail Merge: Printing to the Masses 273
Part V: More Stuff You Can Do with Your Documents 289
Chapter 16: Managing Your Documents 291
Chapter 17: Reveal Codes: Getting Ultimate Control Over YourDocument 301
Part VI: The Part of Tens 319
Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Tweak WordPerfect 321
Chapter 19: Ten Really Good Editing Suggestions 337
Index 343

Über Autor(innen)

In high school, Margaret Levine Young was in a computer clubbefore there were high school computer clubs. She stayed in thefield throughout college, graduated from Yale, and went on tobecome one of the first PC managers in the early 1980s at ColumbiaPictures, where she rode the elevator with big stars whose namesshe wouldn't dream of dropping here.
Since then, Margy has co-authored more than 25 computer books aboutthe topics of the Internet, UNIX, WordPerfect, Microsoft Access,and (stab from the past) PC-File and Javelin, including Access2003 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, Dummies 101: TheInternet For Windows 98, UNIX For Dummies, and WordPerfectfor Linux For Dummies (all published by Wiley Publishing,Inc.), Poor Richard's Building Online Communities (publishedby Top Floor Publishing), and Windows XP: The Complete Referenceand Internet: The Complete Reference (published byOsborne/McGraw-Hill). Aside from explaining computers to anyone whowill listen, her other passion is her children, along with music,Unitarian Universalism (www.uua.org), reading, and anything to dowith eating. She lives in Vermont (see www.gurus.com/margy for somescenery).
David C. Kay is a writer, engineer, artist, andnaturalist, combining disparate occupations with the sameeffectiveness as his favorite business establishment, ActonMuffler, Brake, and Ice Cream (now defunct). Dave has written orcontributed to more than a dozen computer books, including variouseditions of WordPerfect 11 For Dummies, Graphics FileFormats, and The Complete Reference, MillenniumEdition.
Besides writing computer books, Dave consults and writes forhigh-tech firms, and also teaches about wildlife and edible plants.For recreation, he paints theatrical sets, makes strange blobs frommolten glass, sings Gilbert and Sullivan choruses in public, andhikes in whatever mountains he can get to. He longs for the RockyMountains of Canada, pines for the fjords of New Zealand, anddreams of tracking kiwis and hedgehogs in Wanaka. He feels sillywriting about himself in the third person like this and will stopnow.
Richard Wagner is an experienced For Dummiesauthor whose writings span both technical and non-technical worlds.His tech books include WordPerfect 11 For Dummies, XMLAll-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, XSLT For Dummies, aswell as 15 other computer books. He also invented and architectedthe award-winning NetObjects ScriptBuilder software product. In hisnon-tech life, Richard is author of Christianity For Dummiesand Christian Prayer For Dummies and editor of theDigitalwalk.com e-zine.