You have seen how to use such advanced formatting features as newspaper columns, drop caps, footnotes, and endnotes.
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Newspaper columns are columns in which the text wraps continuously from the bottom of one column to the top of the next.
You can keep text together in columns by
^B½╗^b inserting section or column breaks
^B½╗^b formatting individual paragraphs
^B½╗^b using text-flow options
You can also balance your column lengths with Word 97.
You can insert drop caps into a document to give it a more professional look and you can also insert special characters.
Creating headers and footers in Word 97 is quite straightforward.
Using the Header and Footer toolbar, you can create simple or advanced headers and footers.
In Word 97, you insert footnotes and endnotes by accessing the Insert menu.
Footnotes appear at the bottom of the page on which their reference marks appear and endnotes appear at the end of a section or a chapter.
Cross-references refer to text or objects in some other part of a document and can be created by accessing the Insert menu.
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You have seen how to create indexes and tables of contents with Word 97.
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Word 97 makes it easy to create simple as well as complex indexes containing multiple-level entries and cross-references.
Word's table of contents generator provides you with powerful tools that allow you to include text as well as headings in a table of contents.
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You have seen how to use Word's math features, Excel worksheets, and Microsoft Graph charts in Word documents
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Word 97 includes its own math features, which enable you to perform calculations on bookmarked numbers in documents and numbers arranged in a table.
Numbers distributed throughout a Word document are bookmarked so that they can be referred to in an =(Formula) field, which will insert the result of a specified mathematical operation into a document.
You can insert formulas into tables using the Formula dialog box and refer to individual cells or ranges of cells in the formula using a system of cell coordinates.
Formulas in table cells can also include bookmarked numbers from other parts of the document and other tables.
You can insert an Excel worksheet into a Word document by pasting, embedding, or linking it to the document.
Pasting the data from the worksheet into Word as a table doesn't take up much storage space, but means that the data in the Word document can no longer be edited in Excel.
Embedding the worksheet into the document takes up a great deal of storage space, but makes the document and worksheet an integral unit that is editable in both Word and Excel.
Linking the worksheet to the document ensures that changes in the worksheet source file are reflected in the Word document, but anyone who wants to edit the worksheet must have access to the source file and Excel.
Word 97 includes a charting tool called Microsoft Graph 97, which allows you to create attractive, informative charts and include them in your Word documents.
You can import data into the Graph datasheet from Excel worksheets.
Graph offers 14 standard types of chart, an option to customize a chart type, and many formatting options that can enhance the appearance and effectiveness of a chart.
You can create a chart by copying and pasting information from a Word document or table into a Graph datasheet.
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You have seen how to add borders and shading, and graphics to a document.
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You can make a page stand out from the rest of a document by adding borders to it.
You can put a border on any or all sides of a page, and you can change its color and width, and add a shadow or 3-D effect to it.
You can create a more artistic page border and alter its width.
Paragraphs can be highlighted by adding borders and shading to them.
You can alter the color and width of paragraph borders, and you can change the color and pattern of paragraph shading.
The title of a page can be made to stand out and look attractive using WordArt, and you can change the color of a WordArt object and add a gradient to it.
You can insert graphics into your document from another file.
And you can turn this graphic into a watermark and insert it behind the title.
You can group WordArt and other graphic elements and move them to a different location in a document.