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About the Author

Guy Hart-Davis has been using Microsoft Word for more than 15 years , during which time he has seen its capabilities increase steadily and its annoyances increase exponentially. His other books include Word 2000 Developer's Handbook (Sybex) and How to Do Everything with Your iPod and iPod mini (McGraw-Hill).

Acknowledgments

Many wonderful people helped me during the writing of this book. My thanks go especially to the many Word users who wrote in with specific annoyances, almost all of which are covered in this book. (The exceptions were the ones for which there's no fix or workaround.)

At O'Reilly, my thanks go to Robert Luhn, Brett Johnson, Andrew Savikas, and the rest of the team who worked on the book.


Chapter 1. Installation, Repair, and Configuration

Installation should be a snap, whether you're installing Word on its own or as part of Office. You slide in the CD, make a few simple decisions, type in the product key, and let the installation roll. The first time you run one of the applications in Office XP (also known as Office 2002) or Office 2003, you have to activate Office. But after that, you're on your way.

This process gives you a default installation of Office. If you're installing Office from scratch, you get all the Office applications installed with the default configurations. If you're upgrading an existing version of Office, the installation removes any existing versions of the applications and picks up your existing configurations for the new versions of the applications.

But one size seldom fits allnot comfortably, anyway. Word may bug you for the installation CD when you try to access particular features. You may want to run two or more different versions of Word on the same PC, rather than allowing the upgrade to remove your existing version. You may choose not to activate Word (or Office) immediately on your PC. You may find that Word runs wretchedly slowly or that you need to reinstall it. Whether you installed Word from scratch or upgraded it, you'll probably want to configure some of its basic options. This chapter shows you how to deal with all these annoyancesand plenty more.