While you can get along fine without mastering the material in this chapter, having a familiarity with it will make your Word experience more productive. However, because many of these features and techniques are common to all Office applications, they've already been discussed at length in Chapter 1.Įxpanding on the material in Chapter 1, this chapter covers additional elementary features that are specific to Word. Normally, the first chapter in a Part covers a program's basic features, such as how to create, open, and save documents, edit text, and the like. For more information on Microsoft Office, visit our Microsoft Office Newsletter.