CHAPTER 21:  SORTING AND SELECTING

·        THE WORD PROGRAM CONTAINS SOME DATABASE FUNCTIONS.  THESE ALLOW YOU TO ALPHABETIZE DATA OR ARRANGE INFO NUMERICALLY.

·        YOU CAN SORT TEXT IN PARAGRAPHS, TEXT IN ROWS IN TABLES OR RECORDS IN A DATA SOURCE.

·        ALPHANUMERIC: SPECIAL SYMBOLS FIRST, NUMBERS SECOND, LETTERS THIRD.

·        NUMERIC: TEXT IN NUMERIC ORDER AND IGNORES ANY ALPHABETIC TEXT.  SYMBOLS PERTAINING TO NUMBERS ($, %, ., AND -) ARE RECOGNIZED.

·        DATE: SORTS DATES THAT ARE EXPRESSED IN COMMON DATE FORMAT SUCH AS 0-5-15-99 OR 05/15/99 OR MAY 15, 1999 OR 15 MAY 1999.

·        SORTING TEXT IN PARAGRAPHS – TEXT IN PARAGRAPHS CAN BE SORTED BY THE FIRST CHARACTER OF ANY WORD.  THIS CHARACTER CAN BE A NUMBER, A SYMBOL OR A LETTER.    PARAGRAPHS CAN BE SORTED EITHER ALPHANUMERICALLY, NUMERICALLY OR BY DATE.  YOU CAN SORT THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT OR SELECTED PARAGRAPHS.  OPEN THE DOCUMENT, CHOOSE TABLE-SORT TEXT.  MAKE SURE PARAGRAPHS DISPLAYS IN THE SORT BY TEXT BOX AND THE DESIRED TYPE OF SORT IS SELECTED.  WHEN WORD SORTS PARAGRAPHS THAT ARE SEPARATED BY TWO HARD RETURNS, THE HARD RETURNS ARE REMOVED AND INSERTED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE DOCUMENT.   IF YOU WANT TO SORT BY A SPECIFIC WORD, SELECT THE PARAGRAPHS, CHOOSE TABLE-SORT-OPTIONS-SORT BY AND HIT THE SPACEBAR.  THEN AT THE SORT TEXT DIALOG BOX, CHOOSE BY THE SECOND WORD.

·        SORTING TEXT BY COLUMNS – COLUMNS CAN BE SORTED ALPHABETICALLY OR NUMERICALLY.  TABS MUST SEPARATE THE TEXT IN COLUMNS IN ORDER TO USE THE SORT COMMAND.    WORD SORTS BY FIELDS. TEXT AT THE LEFT MARGIN IS AT FIELD ONE; FIELD 2 AT THE FIRST TAB STOP; ETC.  OPEN THE DOCUMENT, CHOOSE TABLE-SORT TEXT.  WORD CONSIDERS EACH COLUMN AS A FIELD.  MAKE SURE THAT THE DESIRED FIELD TO SORT BY IS IN THE SORT BY BOX.  ALSO CHECK THE TYPE OF SORT (ASCENDING OR DESCENDING)   YOU CAN SORT BY MORE THAN ONE FIELD IF NECESSARY.  YOU CAN TELL WORD TO IGNORE THE HEADER ROW.

·        SORTING TEXT IN TABLES – BE IN THE TABLE, CHOOSE TABLE-SORT.  TURN ON HEADER ROW COMMAND IF YOU HAVE ONE.  SET UP SORTING OPTIONS.

·        SORTING RECORDS IN A DATA SOURCE - OPEN THE DATA SOURCE AND TURN ON THE DATABASE TOOLBAR.  BE IN THE COLUMN TO SORT AND CHOOSE ASCENDING OR DESCENDING BUTTON ON THE TOOLBAR.  THIS IS JUST A WORD TABLE.

·        YOU CAN ALSO SORT RECORDS AT THE QUERY OPTIONS DIALOG BOX WITH THE SORT RECORDS TAB SELECTED.  OPEN A MAIN DOCUMENT, AND THEN CLICK ON THE MAIL MERGE HELPER TOOLBAR.  CHOOSE QUERY OPTIONS UNDER STEP 3. 

 

CHAPTER 22:  CREATING OUTLINES, MASTER DOCUMENTS AND SUBDOCUMENTS

·        WORD’S OUTLINING FEATURE WILL FORMAT HEADINGS WITHIN A DOCUMENT AS WELL AS LET YOU VIEW FORMATTED HEADINGS AND BODY TEXT IN A DOCUMENT. WITH THE OUTLINING FEATURE YOU CAN SEE AN OVERVIEW OF A DOCUMENT BY COLLAPSING PARTS OF A DOCUMENT SO THAT ONLY THE HEADINGS SHOW.  WITH HEADINGS COLLAPSED, YOU CAN PERFORM SUCH EDITING FUNCTIONS AS MOVING OR DELETING SECTIONS OF A DOCUMENT.

·        CREATING AN OUTLINE – TO CREATE AN OUTLINE, YOU IDENTIFY PARTICULAR HEADINGS AND SUBHEADINGS WITHIN A DOCUMENT AS CERTAIN HEADING LEVELS.  THE OUTLINE VIEW IS USED TO ASSIGN PARTICULAR HEADING LEVELS TO TEXT.  WHEN IN THE OUTLINE VIEW, PARAGRAPHS ARE IDENTIFIED BY OUTLINE SELECTION SYMBOLS THAT APPEAR IN THE SELECTION BAR AT THE LEFT OF THE SCREEN.  A PLUS SYMBOL MEANS THAT SUBTEXT APPEARS BELOW THE HEADING.  A HYPHEN INDICATES THAT NO SUBTEXT APPEARS BELOW THE HEADING.  A SQUARE INDICATES THE PARAGRAPH IS NORMAL TEXT.

·        ASSIGNING HEADINGS – WHEN A DOCUMENT IS DISPLAYED IN OUTLINE VIEW, THE OUTLINING TOOLBAR DISPLAYS BELOW THE FORMATTING TOOLBAR.  USE BUTTONS ON THIS TOOLBAR TO ASSIGN VARIOUS LEVEL HEADINGS AND OUTLINE NUMBERS TO PARAGRAPHS.  WHEN YOU INITIALLY DISPLAY A DOCUMENT IN THE OUTLINING VIEW, EACH PARAGRAPH IS IDENTIFIED AS NORMAL TEXT.  USE THE BUTTONS ON THE OUTLINING TOOLBAR TO CHANGE.  THE TWO COMMON BUTTONS ARE PROMOTE AND DEMOTE.  YOU CAN ALSO PROMOTE OR DEMOTE BY DRAGGING THE OUTLINE SELECTION SYMBOL. 

·        COLLAPSING AND EXPANDING OUTLINE HEADINGS – ONE OF THE MAJOR BENEFITS OF WORKING IN THE OUTLINE VIEW IS THE ABILITY TO SEE A CONDENSED OUTLINE OF YOUR DOCUMENT WITHOUT ALL OF THE TEXT IN BETWEEN HEADINGS OR SUBHEADINGS.  TO COLLAPSE, BE NEXT TO THE MAIN HEADING TO JUST SHOW THE HEADING LEVELS AND NO TEXT AND CLICK ON THE MINUS BUTTON (COLLAPSE).  TO SHOW THE TEXT WITHIN A COLLAPSED SECTION, BE ON THAT SECTION AND CLICK THE PLUS (EXPAND).  TO SHOW JUST CERTAIN LEVELS (1 – 7) CLICK ON THE APPROPRIATE LEVEL NUMBER TO VIEW.

·        ORGANIZING AN OUTLINE – YOU CAN USE THE OUTLINE FEATURE TO REARRANGE YOUR DOCUMENT.  ONCE YOU COLLAPSE A DOCUMENT TO JUST SHOW THE DIFFERENT LEVEL OF HEADINGS, YOU CAN USE THE MOVE UP OR DOWN BUTTONS TO REARRANGE THE SECTIONS. 

·        NUMBERING AN OUTLINE – HEADINGS IN AN OUTLINE CAN BE AUTOMATICALLY NUMBERED WITH OPTIONS FROM THE BULLETS AND NUMBERING DIALOG BOX WITH THE OUTLINE NUMBERED TAB SELECTED.  IF HEADINGS IN AN OUTLINE ARE MOVED, INSERTED OR DELETED, THE HEADINGS ARE AUTOMATICALLY NUMBERED BY WORD.  SELECT THE HEADINGS, CHOOSE FORMAT-BULLETS AND NUMBERING-OUTLINE NUMBERED TAB AND CHOOSE THE DESIRED NUMBERING METHOD. 

·        DOCUMENT MAPPING – WORD 2000 INCLUDES A DOCUMENT MAP FEATURE YOU CAN USE TO NAVIGATE EASILY IN A DOCUMENT AND KEEP TRACK OF YOUR LOCATION.  THE DOCUMENT MAP FEATURE DISPLAYS ANY HEADINGS THAT ARE FORMATTED WITH WORD’S HEADING STYLES OR OUTLINE LEVEL PARAGRAPH FORMAT.  THE DOCUMENT MAP IS A SEPARATE PANE.  TO CHANGE TO THE DOCUMENT MAP, CLICK ON THE DOCUMENT MAP BUTTON ON THE STANDARD TOOLBAR (BY THE SHOW/HIDE COMMAND) OR VIEW-DOCUMENT MAP.  IF WORD’S HEADING STYLES HAVE BEEN APPLIED IN THE DOCUMENT, SOME OF THE SAME OPTIONS THAT ARE ON THE OUTLINING TOOLBAR ARE AVAILABLE FOR USE.  POSITION THE MOUSE ON A HEADING IN THE DOCUMENT PANE AND RIGHT CLICK.

·        CREATING A MASTER DOCUMENT AND SUBDOCUMENTS – FOR PROJECTS CONTAINING A VARIETY OF PARTS OR SECTIONS SUCH AS A REFERENCE GUIDE OR BOCK, CONSIDER USING A MASTER DOCUMENT.  A MASTER DOCUMENT CONTAINS A NUMBER OF SEPARATE DOCUMENTS CALLED SUBDOCUMENTS.  A MASTER DOCUMENT MAY BE USEFUL IF SEVERAL PEOPLE ARE WORKING ON A PROJECT TOGETHER.  EACH PERSON P0REPARAES A DOCUMENT FOR THEIR PART OF THE PROJECT AND THEN THE DOCUMENTS ARE INCLUDED IN A MASTER DOCUMENT.  A MASTER DOCUMENT ALLOWS FOR EASIER EDITING.  RATHER THAN OPENING A LARGE DOCUMENT FOR EDITING, YOU CAN OPEN A SUBDOCUMENT, MAKE CHANGES, AND THOSE CHANGES ARE REFLECTED IN THE MASTER DOCUMENT.  TO CREATE A MASTER DOCUMENT, CHANGE TO OUTLINE VIEW, MAKE SURE THE MASTER DOCUMENT VIEW BUTTON IS ACTIVE, MAKE SURE HEADING LEVEL STYLES ARE APPLIED TO HEADINGS IN THE DOCUMENT, SELECT THE HEADING AND TEXT TO BE DIVIDED INTO A SUBDOCUMENT, CLICK THE CREATE SUBDOCUMENT BUTTON ON THE OUTLINING TOOLBAR.  WORD CREATES A SUBDOCUMENT FOR EACH HEADING AT THE TOP LEVEL WITHIN THE SELECTED TEXT.  SAVE THE MASTER DOCUMENT IN THE SAME MANNER AS A NORMAL DOCUMENT.  WORD AUTOMATICALLY ASSIGNS A NAME FOR EACH SUBDOCUMENT.  WHEN YOU OPEN THE MASTER DOCUMENT, THERE WILL BE HYPERLINKS TO THE SUBDOCUMENTS SO YOU CAN QUICKLY GO TO THEM. 

 

CHAPTER 23:  CREATING FILL-IN FORMS

 

CHAPTER 24:  WORKING WITH SHARED DOCUMENTS

 

CHAPTER 25:  CREATING SPECIALIZED TABLES AND INDEXES