Microsoft Word 2003

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I (Daniel K. Schneider) rarely use Word and when I have to I find it extremly difficult to produce moderatly good look text (e.g. what would be expected in a textbook. In addition, Word does things to me I didn't ask for, e.g. create new styles or renumber items.

With a program like FrameMaker I can quite easily achieve what I want (in the past I also managed with formatting software) and it does not try to do things not told to do. Also I don't know anyone who even has a moderatly good working knowledge to do things efficiently.

Therefore I will try to make an effort to write down a few tricks I might learn. For the moment just a few links, since I (for now) have the impression that you can't create larger elements efficiently, e.g. vignettes with title, pargraphs of various forms and appropriate numbeing, or figures that include a title, automatic number of the caption...

To explore

• Section breaks
• Repurposing of tables

Links

General Beginners and mid-level tutorials

These links are not sorted or commented (no time), but when I made them (August 2007) they all seemed to useful and have real contents. Most Google search for "Word XP tutorial" leads to utter junk ...

• http://www.uwec.edu/help/word03.htm Microsoft Word 2003, LTS Online Help Documentation, University of Wisconsin. Quite a good tutorial for both beginners and and somewhat advanced users.

• Word 2003 Courses at Microsoft.

• Microsoft Word XP Tutorial 2003/2002

• Tutorials at Rudgers Writing Program. Includes some good beginners tutorials for Word 2003.

• Word Tutorial I (PDF), Word XP, beginner's level, from UC Berkeley Calpact

• Word Tutorial II (PDF), Word XP, mid level, from UC Berkeley Calpact

• Microsoft Word. Three beginners tutorials from University Information services, Georgetown University

• Word 2000 Tutorial and Word 2007 Tutorial, Florida Gulf Coast University.

• Microsoft Word Modules from Intern4Classrooms (i4c).

• Tutorials - Microsoft Word at BetterSolutions.com

Word FAQ's

• The Word MVP site includes a great number of useful FAQs and mini-tutorials. Can help advanced users.

Tutorials on how to write a book with word

• So You Want to Write a Book with MS Word by Daiya Mitchell. This was the only useful link I found. The text includes links to other sites.

• [http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm One Professional�$B!G�(Bs Steps for Writing a Book] by John McGhie

Avaliable style sheets

(to write large documents, more needed)

• Microsoft has a large list of templates, e.g. Books (not useful for writing "real" books")
• O'Reilly
• BCS book template

Use of annotations

(comments for other readers)

• Editing Electronically Submitted Papers (Web by Design, Indiana University]

Software tools

• [http://www.self-pub.net/wizard.html Book Design Wizard 2.0 for Microsoft�.A�N. Word] ($35).