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.
- 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
General advanced tutorials
(by advanced I mean not obvious features that you can find in the menus ...)
Use of annotations
(comments for other readers)
- Editing Electronically Submitted Papers (Web by Design, Indiana University]