1.Instant Auto Correct ,Right-click on a word that's flagged as misspelled to display the Edit shortcut menu. If Word has a suggested alter-native, Auto Correct will appear
, on the menu. Choose Auto Cor-rect and then select the correct version of the word from the submenu to create an Auto Cor-rectentry.

2.Effortless AutoText-Save time by inserting, Auto Text automatically. Type an entry name and press [F3]. Or take advantage of Word's Auto Com plete feature. Just open the Tools menu, select Auto Correct, click the AutoT6xt tab, and turn on the Show Auto Complete Tip For Auto Text And Dates option. With this feature active, Word will show a Screen Tip after you begin typing an Auto Text item. Just press [Enter] and Word will insert the item fdr yoti. (This 'feature works the same way with dates and days of the week.)

3. Marker display - 'Work with paragraph markers and tab marks displayed. Simply click the ShowlHide lj[ button on the Standard toolbar. Displaying those normally hidden characters helps you avoid inadvertently deleting objects or ichanging formatting; it also helps you figure out funky alignment and extra white space problems.

4. Use Auto Correct as a ;text expander - You don't have . ita keep typing those long words or phrases you have trouble with. Come up with a three or :fbur-letter abbreviation for it " YY PC FRIENDllFEB'08 and add it to Auto Correct. For example, say you often need to type Indianapolis. Press [Alt]T (to open the Tools menu) and press A to select Auto Correct.
Type indy, press [Tab], type Indianapolis, and press [Enter] twice. Now, any time you type indy followed by a space or any punctuation, Word will automat-ically "correct" that spelling and replace it with Indianapolis. You can save up to 255 characters in an AutoCorrect entry. (If you need more characters or you want to include pictures along with text, use Auto Text instead.)

5. Clear a table - If you need to delete the contents of all the cells in a table, just select the table and press [Delete] (not [Backspace]).

6. Display built-in styles -When you create a document, Word starts you out with a hand¬ful of basic styles. If you need to apply a more specialized style, hold down [Shift] and click on the arrow beside the Style box on the Formatting toolbar. Word will expand the Style list to in¬clude all its built-in styles. Just select the one you need and Word will apply that style and add it to your document.

7.Quick table column total - Performing addition in a Word table is simple. Click in an empty cell at the bottom of a column of numbers. Open the Table menu, select Formula, and press [Enter] to accept the default Sum function.

8.Styles as you go - Define styles on the fly: Format a para-
graph the way you want, type a name in the Style boxon the For-matting toolbar, and press [Enter].

9.Quick field toggle -
Press [Alt][F9] to quickly toggle field code display on and off.
10.Add a border to a page - To add a border to page, open the Format menu, select the Borders And Shading command, and click the Page Border tab.

11.Faster Go To - Double¬click the left end of the status bar to bring up the Go To tab so you can jump to an item in your document such as bookmark, a specific page, a table, a section, and so on.

12. Split sville - See two parts of a document at the same time by choosing Split from the Window menu and clicking to place the split bar where you want to divide the document window. Separate vertical scroll bars allow you to bring different portions of text into view-and you can set different view preferences for each pane (such as normal view in the top pane and outline view in the bottom). To restore the panes to a single window, just double-click the split bar or drag it beyond the top or bottom of the window.

13. Selective word count ¬Need to know how many words, characters, paragraphs, or lines appear in a portion of a docu¬ment? Just select the text you want to run the count on prior to choosing Word Count from the Tools menu.
14. Trim ragged text by turning on hyphenation ¬When text contains many long words and your left and right margins are close to one another, your right margin can look ragged. To help smooth out that edge, choose Language from the Tools menu, select Hyphen¬ation, click in the Automatically Hyphenate Document check box, and click OK.

15. Copy formatting to more than one block of text ¬To copy the formatting from the CUlTent word or paragraph, click the Format Painter button on the Standard toolbar and then select the word or block of text to which you want to apply that formatting. To copy the same formatting to more than one block of text, double-click on the Format Painter button. Then you can apply the formatting to several blocks of text. To turn off the Format Painter, just click the button again or press [Esc].

16. Jump quickly between documents - If you work with a lot of open, overlapping docu-ments, here's a quick way to cycle between them: Press [Ctrl][F6] to jump from one to the next; [Ctrl][Shift][F6] will jump you backward.

17. Insert and format symbols - For instant ac-cess to. thousands of specharacters and wild and Assign macro to crazy icons, open the In sert menu, choose SymIoolbarsbol, and look through the selections available with different fonts and subsets of fonts. After you insert a special character or sym-bol, you can then select it and use rGrow Fontl and [Shrink Font] on it.

18. Create a desktop shortcut to a document - To create a document shortcut, first highlight some text to serve as a target in the document and click the Copy button. Next, mini¬mize the Word window or drag it out of the way so you can see the Windows desktop. Then, hold down [Ctrl], right-click on the desktop, and choose Paste Shortcut. You'll probably want to change the shortcut name to something more meaningful. To do this, click on the shortcut to select it and then press [F2] to activate the label for editing. Type the desired name and press.

[Enter]. Close your document~ clic~ng Yes to save your chang-es. You can even exit Word, if you want. Then, simply double-click on the desktop shortcut. Word will open the associated document, navigate to your tatget text, and select it.

19. Insert frequently used text with a macro - Macros are extremely handy for performing multi-step operations, including simple text entry. If you rou-tinely use a word, phrase, or entire paragraph, you can create a macro that will automatically insert the text. To start recording your macro click Tools I Macro I Record New Macro. You will be prompted to enter a name for your new macro, specify the document template in which th~ macro will be stored, and enter a short description. Click OK when you're ready to begin re~ cording your new macro. Word will record every! mouse click and keystroke you make until you click the Stop Recording button. Type in your text and click Stop recording. To use your new macro, click Tools I Macros, select you macro frorti the list of available macros, and click Run. To make the process even easier, you can tie the macro to a keyboard shortcut:

Click Tools I Customize and click the Keyboard button. Un': der the Categories list, scroll down and select Macros. A list of available macros wilt appear. Select the desired macro and click into the Press new shortcut key field. Press the key to which you want your macro assigned and then click the Assign button. Return to the docu¬ment by clicking Close button twice and your new keyboard shortcut is ready to Use.