SECTION 3
Lesson 3.3: Creating References Within a Document

   

 

 

Once again, your not-so-computer-savvy boss has asked you to polish a handbook before it goes out to the staff. As it’s a bit long, he wants to make sure it’s as readable as possible. Since he is your boss (and since you’re up for a raise next month) let’s try to make this as snazzy as possible.

 

1.

Open Microsoft Office Word 2003 and open the Telephone Techniques document from the Exercise Files folder.

 

 

2.

Place your cursor in the line above Initial Greeting.

Click the Insert menu and click Caption.

Fill out the caption dialog box so it looks like the sample below.

 

 

Click OK.

 

 

3.

Drag and drop the caption so it’s either above or below the picture.

 

 

 

4.

Select the text The Initial Greeting.

Click the Insert menu, click Bookmark.

In the Bookmark dialog box, type InitialGreeting and click OK.

 

 

 

 

5.

Select the text NEVER Say: on page 4.

Click the Insert menu, click Bookmark.

In the Bookmark dialog box, type Do_Not_Say and click Add.

 

 

 

6.

Find the quote at the top of Page 7.

Put your cursor next to the word Carnegie.

Click the Insert menu, click Reference, and click Footnote.

 

 

 

7.

Fill out the Footnote and Endnote dialog box so it looks like the sample below and then click Insert.

 

 

 

8.

Type Taken from Bartlett’s Quotations 2004, pg 454 for the footnote.

 

 

 

9.

Scroll back up to the top of the document. Place your cursor in the line between the first two paragraphs. Press Enter and type: We’ll also talk about some things to avoid saying. For a complete list, see page

Then press Enter again.

 

 

 

10.

Click to place your cursor at the end of the paragraph we just typed, after the word page. Click the Insert menu, choose Reference, and click Cross-Reference.

For the Reference type, choose Bookmark. For Insert reference to, choose Page number. For the bookmark, click Do_Not_Say in the white pane.

Click Insert and then click Close.

 

 

11.

Type a period after the cross-reference we just inserted.

 

 

12.

Press Alt+Shift+X to open the Mark Index Entry dialog box.

Find the words service techniques in the first paragraph of the document.

Click back to the Mark Index Entry dialog box.

Leave the options at the default and click Mark All.

 

 

 

13.

Repeat the process for the following words and phrases:

 

Page 1, Paragraph 2: avoid saying

Page 1, Paragraph 3: characteristics of the telephone

Page 1: Initial Greeting

Page 2, Paragraph 3: poor service

Page 2, Paragraph 7: transferring the call

Page 2, Paragraph 9: waiting time

Page 3, Paragraph 2: progress report

 

The rest of our words and phrases have been marked. We can now click Close in the Mark Index Entry dialog box.

 

 

14.

Hide paragraph markings if they have been turned on.

Place your cursor at the end of the document.

Press Ctrl and Enter to create a new page.

Center your cursor and type Index.

Press Enter twice.

Left-align this line.

 

 

 

15.

Click the Insert menu, choose Reference, and click Index and Tables.

Click the Index tab if it’s not already selected.

Choose a format that you like and check Right align page numbers.

Choose a tab leader that you like.

Click OK.

 

 

 

16.

Save your document as Telephone Techniques Finished.

 

 

17.

Close Microsoft Office Word 2003.