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  Opening Documents

  The Open dialog box,is your key to finding and retrieving Word documents.
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  Creating Your Own Menu

  Creating custom menus in Word is a funny feature you can use to create groups of the options that you use most often, and then plug them into the menu you name and use yourself.
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  Changing the Look of Toolbar Buttons

  Word 2016 doesn't have a menu (unless you call Home, Insert, Page Layout, etc., a menu), and you can't customize what's not there. Word does still have context-sensitive right-click menus. However, unlike in previous versions of Word, the user interface no longer provides a way to customize them.
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  Getting to the Point with AutoSummarize

  In Word 2016, this feature is no used.
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  Adding captions with AutoCaption

  Use the AutoCaption feature if you want to add captions to all items of a particular type automatically.
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  Adding Callouts to Objects

  A callout is a type of text box that also includes a line for pointing to any location on the document. A callout is helpful when you need to identify and to explain parts of a picture.
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  Hiding Pictures

  Including a large number of in-line pictures in your documents slows down Word's performance. You can improve performance by replacing actual pictures with picture placeholders.
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  Adjusting Picture Characteristics

  There is no need to use an additional image editing software in order to create high-quality pictures for your document. Instead you can use Microsoft Word picture editing tools to correct and improve your pictures.
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  Transpose words using the Replace feature

  Just as you did in the Find tab, you can use wildcards in the Replace tab. Here's a wildcard trick that uses parentheses and backslash wildcards to transpose words.
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  Using the Organizational Chart Tool

  In most cases, it is recommended to use Visio to create diagrams, but in some simple cases, such as company organizational charts, you can successfully use the built-in Word tools.