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Format Menu / Bullets and Numbering The third command of the Format Menu is Bullets and Numbering. Using it, you can create
You can change the format of the selected type of list as well. Pressing the Tab key inserts white space into your document and moves the insertion point so that the next character you type will be aligned on the next tab stop. The Show/Hide button ¶ may be used to display the tab character (a small arrow). You can use tabs to arrange numbers or text into rows and columns. In Word, you can adjust both the spacing and the type of the tab stops. Word has two kinds of tab stops: default and custom. Default tab stops apply to the entire document. The default tab stops are set at 0.5". The default tab stops are marked with small vertical lines at the bottom of the ruler. To change the default tab stops select Format Menu / Tabs and type the desired value in the Default tab stops box and click OK. You can also define custom stops. The custom tab stops are a paragraph-formatting feature. You can define custom tab stops from Format Menu / Tabs or using the ruler. To define custom Tab stops:
The AutoText command, AutoText option of the Insert menu activates the AutoCorrect Window. You can use this window to
The Symbol command of the Insert Menu may be used to insert a specific symbol. Insert Menu / FootnoteA footnote provides additional information about an item, such as its source, and appears at the bottom of the page where the reference occurs. An endnote is similar in concept but appears at the end of a document. A horizontal line separates the notes from the rest of the document. The Insert Footnote command inserts a note into a document, and automatically assigns the next sequential number to that note. The tables feature is one of the most powerful in Word and is the basis for an almost limitless variety of documents.
The fastest way to create a table is to use the Insert Table button on the Standard toolbar. The alternative is to use the Table Menu, Insert Table command. The Table Menu has several commands to format the table. Alternatively, you can use the Tables and Borders toolbar to format the table. File Menu / NewA template is a partially completed document that contains formatting, text, and/or graphics. It may be as simple as a memo or as complex as a resume or web page. Microsoft word provides a variety of templates for common documents including a resume, agenda, and fax cover sheet. You simply open the template, then modify the existing text as necessary, while retaining the formatting in the template. A wizard makes the process even easier by asking a series of questions, then creating a customized document based on your answers. Then, you can work on the generated document further more. The File New command opens up the New Window which contains the various templates and wizards grouped into different categories (tabs). A style is a set of formatting characteristics that you can apply to text in your document to quickly change its appearance. When you apply a style, you apply a whole group of formats in one simple task. For example, you may want to format the title of a report to make it stand out. Instead of taking three separate steps to format your title as 16 pt, Arial, and center-aligned, you can achieve the same result in one step by applying the Title style. When you start Microsoft Word, the new blank document is based on the Normal template, and text that you type uses the Normal style. This means that when you start typing, Word uses the font, font size, line spacing, text alignment, and other formats currently defined for the Normal style. The Normal style is the base style for the Normal template, meaning that it’s a building block for other styles in the template. There are a number of other styles besides Normal available in the Normal template. A few basic ones are shown in the Style list on the Formatting toolbar. You can preview and select others in the Style dialog box (Format menu, Style command). A paragraph style controls all aspects of a paragraph's appearance, such as text alignment, tab stops, line spacing, and borders, and can include character formatting. A character style affects selected text within a paragraph, such as the font and size of text, and bold and italic formats. Characters within a paragraph can have their own style even if a paragraph style is applied to the paragraph as a whole. When you want to change the style of text, you can apply an existing style, also known as a built-in style. If you don’t see a style with the characteristics you want, you can create a new style, and then apply it. Creating the Table of Contents list First of all, before generating a Table of Contents list, you must have used the "Heading 1", "Heading 2", "Heading 3", .. styles in your document. Then, Word can generate automatically the Table of Contents list based on this headings showing the page number where each heading resides together with the heading itself. Use the Insert menu, Index and Tables command, Table of Contents tab to generate the list. An index lists the terms and topics discussed in a printed document, along with the pages they appear on. Before creating the index for the document, you must have marked the index entries to be included in the index. Mark index entries for words or phrases 
Do one of the following: · To use existing text as an index entry, select the text.· To enter your own text as an index entry, click where you want to insert the index entry.2. Press ALT+SHIFT+X. 3. Do one of the following: · To create a main index entry, type or edit the text in the Main entry box.· To create a subentry, specify the main index entry, and then type the subentry in the Subentry box. To include a third-level entry, type the subentry text followed by a colon (:) and the text of the third-level entry.4. Do one of the following: · To mark the index entry, click Mark.· To mark all occurrences of this text in the document, click Mark All. (Note that this button is available only if you selected text before opening the dialog box — not if you typed your own text in the dialog box.)5. To mark additional index entries, select the text or click immediately after it, click in the Mark Index Entry dialog box, and then repeat steps 3 and 4. Notes
To generate the index, issue the Insert menu, Index and Tables command, the Index tab. The Index window is given in the following figure:
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