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How good are your Microsoft Word skills? In 30 minutes, author Angela Rose will show you how to become a power user of Word 2016 for Windows and macOS. Even if you have used MS Word in the past, this guide will demonstrate tools and time-saving tips that will help you make a bigger impact when writing letters, reports, essays, resumes, manuscripts, and other documents. Microsoft Word In 30 Minutes also covers Word Online, Microsoft’s free (but limited) online alternative.What's inside: MS Word interface basics, from Backstage View to the Ribbon Office 365 subscriptions and OneDrive Microsoft Word display options for individual documents How to work with multiple windows in Microsoft Word Using .docx, .doc, .txt, PDF, and other file formats in Word 2016 and Word Online Locating recovered files after a crash Printing documents, envelopes, and labels from MS Word How to format text using the Word toolbar How to format Word documents using styles, themes, and style sets Creating Word documents with professional-quality templates How to create tables and charts in Microsoft Word Adding images, video, and hyperlinks to a .docx file How to automatically create a table of contents in Microsoft Word Adding footnotes, endnotes, citations, a bibliography, and an index to MS Word Word 2016 and Word Online spelling, tracking, and review tools Collaboration features in Word, from comments to live collaboration How to protect your Word document There are lots of examples, screenshots, and offbeat anecdotes from the author. Whether you are new to MS Word, or want to familiarize yourself with the new features and interface of Word 2016 compared to older versions (Word 2013, Word 2010, Word 2007, Word 2003, etc.), Microsoft Word In 30 Minutes is a great guide.

This superb tragedy centers on the senators Cassius and Brutus, who conspire to assassinate the title character and set up a new government. However, their plot is foiled by Mark Antony, who stirs the masses into battle against Caesar's murderers. Like many of Shakespeare's plays, Julius Caesar introduced a number of new expressions into the English language; for example, take note of how Casca describes Cicero's speech in Act I.

A group of English men and women from all walks of life gather at the Tabard Inn atSouthwark and proceed on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. Before they leave, their host proposes a contest: whichever of them can tell the best story during the ride to Canterbury will be given a free dinner at the Tabard upon the group's return to London. And as courtlyromances are answered by filthy fabliaux, and proto-feminist exempla lead to heated debates about marriage, the pilgrims provide modern readers with an alternately touching and riotous look at life in medieval England. Highlights include: "The Miller's Tale": a bawdytale of a romantic quadrangle between a poor scholar, a parish clerk, a carpenter, and the carpenter's beautiful wife. "The Reeve's Tale": After being cuckolded by a thieving miller, the students John and Aleyn concoct a delicious revenge in this freewheeling sex farce. "The Wife of Bath's Tale": Prefaced by the Wife's lengthy autobiography, this is the story of a knight convicted of rape - who must, as penance, discover what it is that women most desire. "The Summoner's Tale": A delightful if indelicate tale about the unusual donation a parishioner makes to his local monastery. "The Pardoner's Tale": The story of three rioters who go on a drunken quest to find Death - and succeed. "Sir Thopas": Chaucer's hilarious self-parody, in which he represents an absurd piece of fake minstrel-verse as "the best rhyme I know." "The Nun's Priest's Tale": An amusing fable about a rooster, his favorite wife, and the fox who wanted to eat them.

Sex, prohibition of sex, and a tangle of assumed identities fuel Shakespeare's rendition of this old Italian comedy. Duke Vincentio of Vienna appoints Angelo to enforce the land's forgotten statutes, remaining in the city, disguised as a friar, to observe his deputy's actions. The arrest of Claudio for seducing his own fiancée, Juliet - in violation of a long-ignored law against premarital fornication - leads to a succession of romantic foibles and robust political hijinks.