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Here's what a comment looks like when you hold the cursor above it ("displaying on rollover"):
Double-clicking on a chapter or heading name (highlighted with grey shading at left) will scroll to that part of the document. Note the red rectangle, which represents the "thumbnails" view; that view replaces the headings with small images of the contents of each page.
A PDF that explains how to edit menus in Word 2011 and older versions.
Field codes can be toggled to show their value:
Or they can be toggled to show the contents of the code:
Word indicates that text is formatted as "hidden" by using dotted underlines:
If you don't change the view settings to display hidden text, you won't see these words.
The Outlining toolbar offers many functions for controlling how the outline appears:
The Quick Access Toolbar is located at the top left of a document window, above the menus:
To add or remove functions from the Quick Access Toolbar, click the icon at the right edge to display a menu of the options:
Select commands to add them to the toolbar; deselect commands to remove them. Click "More Commands" to gain access to the complete list of Word's commands. Select "Quick Access Toolbar", the category of commands, and the specific command you want to add, then click the [>] button to add it to the toolbar:
To remove a command, select it under the heading "Customize Quick Access Toolbar", then click the [<] icon.
The Ribbon is the group of tabs and icons at the top of the document window:
To customize the Ribbon, click the icon at the right edge of the Quick Access Toolbar:
Click "More Commands" to gain access to the complete list of Word's commands. At the top of the dialog box, select "Ribbon". To add commands to the Ribbon, you must first create a custom tab to hold the commands. To do so, click the [+] icon at the bottom of the list of tabs and select "New tab" (or "New group" if you want to add groups to a custom tab):
Select your new tab, open the menu under the gear icon, and select "Rename" to give it a new name:
Next, on the left side of the dialog box, select the category of commands and the specific command you want to add to the Ribbon (here, "Fit to Window Width"); on the right side, select the tab you want to add the command to (here, "Geoff's custom tab"). Click the [>] button to add this command to the new tab:
To remove a command from a tab, expand the tab, select the command, then click the [<] icon:
To change the order of commands in your custom tab, expand the tab to show the commands it obtains, then drag each command to its new position.
On the Mac, Microsoft provides no easy way to transfer customizations of Word's Ribbon to another computer. It's easier and probably safer to manually recreate all those customizations on the new computer. However, if you want to try the transfer, locate the Word.officeUI file on the old computer. You can find it at the following location (follow the path from the directory at the bottom of the highlighted list of directories until you arrive at the Preferences folder at the top):
Close Word on the new computer, then make a backup copy of the Word.office.UI file; for example, drag the file onto your desktop. Move the old file into the directory that held that file, then restart Word. If you encounter any problems, replace the new Word.office.UI file with the old one.
To begin, select the Ribbon's View tab and click the "Split" icon:
Next, drag the bar that represents the position of the split until the two parts of the document have the desired size:
You can now scroll independently in each part of the document. To unsplit the window, drag the grey bar that separates the panes to the top or bottom of the window, or click the "Remove Split" icon.
Toolbars have been removed from recent versions of MacWord, but if you're using an older version, I've provided a PDF file that describes how to work with Toolbars.
To gain access to the Track Changes options, click the tiny menu button to the right of the "Tracking" icon, followed by the tiny menu button at the right of "Markup Options". Finally, select "Preferences":
MacWord doesn't offer this as a built-in function. However, you can manually reposition and resize document windows to accomplish the same goal.
For a list of Word's commends, consult the Word 2010 command finder
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