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  The Master Document View

  Word master document enables you to: cross-reference items among several documents; create indexes, tables of contents, and lists that span several documents; easily assign consistent page numbering, headers, and other formatting across multiple documents; etc. A book is ideally suited to the master document feature. Each chapter can be a subdocument, and the elements common to the entire book can be contained in the master document itself.
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  Viewing document and readability statistics

  Writing simple and easy to understand documents is a unique ability that lays somewhere between art and science. Microsoft Word can help you to improve you writing skills by providing readability statistic metrics.
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  Replacing special characters

  In addition to searching for and replacing text, you can search for and replace Word's special characters, such as paragraph and tab marks.
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  How to add a drop cap

  Drop Cap is short for dropped initial capital letter. Typically a drop cap is an oversized, single capital letter designed to stick up above a line of text or to stand out in a block of text.
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  Using wildcards

  Word lets you refine your searches using wildcard characters and operators. The question mark and asterisk are wildcard characters that represent characters in the search text.
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  Printing AutoText entries

  To help you manage your AutoText (Building Blocks) entries, you can print the names and contents of AutoText (Building Blocks) entries attached to the current document.
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  Field Keyboard Shortcuts

  This tip contains shortcut keys for simple and faster work with fields.
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  How to replace text with a graphic or an object

  Although the Find And Replace dialog box doesn't directly support replacing text with graphics or objects, you can easily perform this action using the Clipboard and the ^c wildcard.
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  Using nonbreaking and optional hyphens

  Use nonbreaking hyphens to hyphenate phrases or terms that you don't want to wrap to another line. With nonbreaking hyphens, the entire phrase or term wraps to the next line instead of breaking.
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  Navigating in a Table

  There are several keyboard combinations that are useful when you work with a table: