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How This Book Is Organized

Unlike computer manuals, which often seem to be organized alphabetically by height, this book is organized by what you may be trying to do. For exam­ple, we don’t explain all the commands on the Edit menu in one chapter. Our reasoning is that the Edit commands don’t necessarily have anything to do with editing and that Edit is a foolish category because isn’t almost every­thing you do in a word processor a sort of edit anyway? No, what this book does is break things down into the following six useful categories.

Part I: Exploring the Essentials

Part I gets you up and running by showing you how to use the essential fea­tures of WordPerfect. This part is the place to go for the basics of using menus and toolbars to navigate your document and control WordPerfect. You also explore how to create a document, edit it, check the spelling, and make it come out of your printer.

Part II: Formatting Your Text

A few holdouts from the 1960s probably still love to create documents that look like they were typed on an old manual typewriter — monospaced text with double-spaced paragraphs. But we suspect that you’ve probably moved into the 21st century and would like to create some snazzy-looking docu­ments that include fancy fonts, page numbers, and text styles. If so, check out Part II. It’s all there.

Part III: Making Your Documents Come Alive

In this era of digital cameras, scanners, and ink jet printers, creating a docu­ment often involves more than just typing plain old text, no matter how nice the font looks. Part III enables you to “get with the program” as you discover how to make your documents come alive with pictures, tables, borders, and other types of cool formatting.

Part IV: All The World’s a Page: Going Beyond Your Desktop

WordPerfect is a popular software program, but you can’t be sure that every­one who reads your document also has WordPerfect on their machine. Good thing the folks at Corel realized that too, because they developed an arsenal of tools you can use to get your documents in just the right format, whatever the occasion. Part IV focuses on how to use WordPerfect to publish Web pages, Adobe Acrobat (PDF) documents, and XML files. And, because most everyone and their brother use Microsoft Office, you’ll discover how Word Perfect can work “perfectly” with Microsoft Office documents.

Part V: More Stuff You Can Do with Your Documents

Nestled in WordPerfect are some nifty features that allow you to manage and work with multiple documents. Check out Part V to find out about these capabilities. What’s more, if you ever wanted to put on a trench coat and do some sleuthing, now’s your chance. This part also explores how to work with reveal codes, WordPerfect’s secret coding language behind your documents.

Part VI: The Part of Tens

In honor of the decimal system, the Ten Commandments, and the fact that humans have ten fingers, Part V is where we stick other useful stuff. We would have made this part an appendix, but appendixes have no fingers and . . . look, just check it out, okay?
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