• Author:
  • Young, Margaret Levine
  • Kay, David C.
  • Young, Jordan M.
• Subject:
  Business Applications
• Published by:
  John Wiley & Sons Inc (US)
• Published:
  23/07/1997
• Price:
  $29.99
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Whether you're a longtime WordPerfect user or you're new to this venerable, feature-packed word processing program, Corel WordPerfect 8 For Windows For Dummies has what you need. Authors and computing pros Margaret Levine Young, David Kay, and Jordan Young get you up and running quickly with a primer on WordPerfect in general (and WordPerfect 8 in particular). Then, to ensure that you always get professional results without any hassles, they offer practical, easy-to-understand coverage of all the WordPerfect 8 program's important features. You'll discover how to
* Format documents and stylize text
* Cut and paste blocks of text
* Keep the WordPerfect secret codes under control
* Get documents to print the way they look on screen
* Manage multiple documents on screen at the same time
* Use the Toolbar and Ruler
* Enhance documents by adding images and clip art
* Use fonts effectively and tastefully
* Create form letters and mailing lists
* Transform documents into ready-to-publish Web pages


Plus, Corel WordPerfect 8 For Windows For Dummies includes a cheat sheet for you to tear out and keep handy for those times when you can't remember which keyboard shortcut does what.

About the Authors Margaret Levine Young is the coauthor of over a dozen IDG Books Worldwide's .For Dummies?? books on WordPerfect, Access, UNIX, and the Internet, including Dummies 101??: WordPerfect?? 7 For Windows?? and the bestselling The Internet For Dummies??, 4th Edition. David C. Kay is the coauthor of IDG Books Worldwide's Microsoft?? Works 3 For Windows?? For Dummies??, 2nd Edition, WordPerfect?? 6.1 For Windows?? For Dummies??, 2nd Edition, and VRML & 3D On The Web For Dummies??, 2nd Edition. Jordan M. Young has been a personal computer consultant since there first were computers. He teaches about computers in both Spanish and English.

Introduction.

PART I: INTRODUCING WORDPERFECT 8 FOR WINDOWS.

Chapter 1: WordPerfect Basics.

Chapter 2: Using the Mouse and Keyboard.

Chapter 3: Cruising the Document.

Chapter 4: Fooling with Blocks of Text.

Chapter 5: Text Improvements.

PART II: PRETTYING UP YOUR TEXT.

Chapter 6: Charming Characters.

Chapter 7: Sensational Sentences and Pretty Paragraphs.

Chapter 8: Perfect Pages and Dashing Documents.

Chapter 9: The WordPerfect Secret Decoder Ring.

Chapter 10: Documents with Style.

PART III: THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH DOCUMENTS.

Chapter 11: On Paper at Last: Printing Stuff.

Chapter 12: Juggling Documents on Your Screen.

Chapter 13: Juggling Files on Your Disk.

Part IV: Creating Documents That Don't Just Sit There.

Chapter 14: Chasing Your Words Around on the Page.

Chapter 15: Say It with Pictures.

Chapter 16: Creating Your Own Junk Mail.

Chapter 17: Recipes and Templates for Popular Documents.

Chapter 18: Spinning Web Pages.

PART V: HELP ME, RHONDA!

Chapter 19: Training WordPerfect to Act Your Way.

Chapter 20: Don't Panic! Read This Chapter!

PART VI: THE PART OF TENS.

Chapter 21: The Ten Not-to-Be-Broken Rules of WordPerfect.

Chapter 22: Ten Awesome Tricks.

Index.