Part 6. Advanced Document Formatting

Now that you know how to edit documents, format text, and format your documents, it is time to do a little advanced work in Microsoft Word. For example, Word has a mail-merge wizard that takes you through each step to creating a form document by merging a letter (or whatever document you like) and a data source list (more on that in Part 9, "Working with Data and Charts").

This part also teaches you how to assign Word's default styles (Normal, Header 1, Header 2, and so on) to your document text as well as how to create and apply your own styles. You can use this styled text to create a table of contents to organize the information in your document.

And last, but not least, this part teaches you how to work with tables. You can create tables in your Word documents and format them in many ways. The Tables and Borders toolbar, which allows you to quickly access some of the features in this part, is very helpful. Simply open the View menu and select Toolbars, Tables and Borders.