Re: [ANN] "Bend Word to your Will" -- link now corrected for free download
- From: "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:32:43 +1000
Just to be REALLY provocative...
I wish there were a way we could persuade people not to store absolute URLs.
I need to relay the entire Word website, so there is a chance that in a
month or so, when I get the time, I'm going to break every URL on the site
{giggle....}
Sorta like Microsoft keeps doing with their damned knowledgebase :-)
Cheers
On 23/4/05 11:42, in article
BE900163.EDDD%REMOVETHISoffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Clive Huggan"
<REMOVETHISoffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> The following announcement has the correct link from which you can download
> "Bend Word to Your Will" -- that is,
> http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/Bend/BendWord.htm
>
> I apologize to anyone who has been inconvenienced by my quoting the
> superseded [wrong] URL in my original post a few days ago.
>
> CH
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS ABOUT A *NON-COMMERCIAL* RESOURCE BASED IN PART ON
> ACCUMULATED ADVICE FROM THIS NEWSGROUP
>
> The latest version of my notes on Word -- titled "Bend Word to Your Will" --
> is now available for downloading from the Word MVPs' site,
> http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/Bend/BendWord.htm
>
> WHAT IS "BEND WORD TO YOUR WILL"?
>
> "Bend Word to Your Will" is not a commercial product for sale -- it's free.
> It's a dictionary-style (mainly) set of notes on Word that I've been
> continually adding to and polishing for the past four years. They are "real
> life" notes, which I keep consulting in my professional work, especially
> when explaining some of Word's features to my colleagues.
>
> COVERAGE
>
> To see what the document contains before downloading it, on the download
> page you can click on the orange words "Article table of contents".
>
> The notes are centred on features that improve speed and efficiency --
> especially in working on long and/or complex documents. I'm especially
> interested in reducing the chances of corruption in my documents, which are
> distributed back and forwards between many people, on PCs and Macs.
>
> Among many dozens of topics in the notes, I first describe ways of amending
> Word's settings to keep control of what you're doing. I cover styles
> extensively -- they're essential for saving time and fuss in long documents.
> I describe how easy it is to modify toolbars to reflect your own way of
> working rather than keeping the averaged-out preferences of Word's tens of
> millions of users. I explain how I use AutoCorrect to expand abbreviated
> terms that I type in "shorthand" much of the time, and I describe a small
> number of very useful macros. Sources of further information on Word are
> also provided.
>
> But the above is only a small sample of the coverage.
>
> The emphasis is on configuring your copy of Word as *you* see fit, to make
> it suit your needs -- not on making the documents themselves so advanced
> that they confuse people who have only a basic knowledge of Word.
>
> I don't cover graphics, equations or networked configurations of Word,
> because I don't use Word in those contexts.
>
> Most of the material draws on, and is consistent with, advice given in this
> newsgroup by MacWord gurus John McGhie, Beth Rosengard, John McGimpsey, Paul
> Berkowitz, Daiya Mitchell, Elliott Roper, Corentin Cras-Méneur, Jim Gordon
> and others. Like so many others, I've greatly benefited from their freely
> given expertise.
>
> WHAT VERSIONS DO THE NOTES COVER?
>
> I wrote the first editions of the notes when I used Word 2001 after moving
> from Word 5.1a, although I also took into account other versions (Mac and
> PC) that I've used in the past 20 years. I recently moved to Word 2004 after
> skipping Word X. The new edition includes many of the changes introduced in
> Word 2004.
>
> WHAT'S THE STRUCTURE OF THE NOTES?
>
> "Bend Word to your Will" is a Word document, for the most part structured
> like a dictionary with broadly self-contained articles. It's intended to be
> used on-screen rather than to be printed out, because the articles have
> clickable hyperlinks leading to related topics. It's about 170 pages long,
> and you'd be crazy to read it from end to end, any more than you would with
> a dictionary. Instead, it's best to leap into particular topics via the
> "Find" command and the table of contents.
>
> (However, it's essential to read the introductory section starting on page
> 17, because there are some important tips in there for getting the most out
> of the notes.)
>
> Accompanying the "Bend Word to your Will" document (but downloadable
> separately) is a Word template. Among other things, it includes a skeleton
> for long documents that I create using techniques covered in "Bend Word to
> your Will", and macros that I mention in "Bend Word to Your Will". If you
> aren't familiar with templates, don't bother to download it -- you can get
> it later if you need it.
>
> Enjoy! Bend Word to *your* will!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Clive Huggan
> Canberra, Australia
> ===================
>
>
>
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John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410
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