This collection of Word commands lets you insert specialized text, entire documents or other pictures and objects into your Word documents.
Inserts one of six kinds of breaks into the Word document that interrupt your text at the insertion point: page breaks, section breaks, column breaks, and so on (see Transferring styles).
Opens the Page Numbers window, which lets you choose a place for page numbers that update automatically.
Opens the “Date and Time” window, from which you can insert the current date and time in a variety of formats. The date and time appear at the insertion point, and it can be made to update automatically to the current date and time whenever the document is printed.
The AutoText menu (see Setting up an AutoText entry) contains 12 commands that let you automatically enter canned bits of text (such as letter salutations) at the insertion point. The Auto-Text menu items are actually categories, with these submenus:
AutoText. Opens the AutoCorrect window to the AutoText tab, where you can enter your own text entries.
New. Creates an AutoText entry from the selected text.
Attention Line. Inserts either Attention: or ATTN: into your document
Closing. Offers 13 ways to close a letter.
Header/Footer. Lists 10 entries appropriate for headers and footers, such as page numbers, the file name, and a “Confidential” stamp.
Mailing Instructions. Offers eight mail-related entries.
Reference Initials. Inserts your initials.
Reference Line. Inserts reply-style entries.
Salutation. Lists four correspondence-starters.
Signature. Inserts your name (or whatever signature you like).
Signature Company. Inserts your company name.
Subject Line. Inserts Subject: into your document.
Opens the Field window, where you can insert a Word field (self-updating text code) at the insertion point (see Fields).
Calls up the Symbol window so that you can insert a special character, like ™ or 
(see the box on Line Numbers).
Inserts a comment into the currently active document (see Comments).
Opens the Elements Gallery’s Document Elements tab to one of its five categories: Cover Page, Table of Contents, Headers, Footers, or Bibliography.
Opens the Footnote and Endnote window, where you can enter footnote and endnote information (see Footnotes and Endnotes).
Opens the Caption window, which you can use to insert a picture caption at the insertion point (see Viewing Bookmarks).
Opens the Cross-reference window, which lets you insert cross references to items in the document (see Turning AutoCaptions Off).
Opens the “Index and Tables” window, where you can create various indexes, table of contents entries, and authority citations (see Indexing).
Lets you choose an image or text to place as a watermark (faint background) on each page of your document.
The Insert → Picture submenu lets you grab images from the Clip Gallery or from a file; additionally, you can insert a Horizontal Line, or an AutoShape.
This menu is meant to help build Web pages, a secondary Word skill described at length in Chapter 8. It has nine submenus:
Background Sound. Inserts a sound of your choice that will be played back when the page is viewed in a browser.
Scrolling Text. Adds text that scrolls annoyingly when your page is viewed in a Web browser.
Checkbox. Inserts an HTML checkbox (complete with name and value) at the insertion point.
Option Button. Inserts an HTML option button (or radio button) at the insertion point.
List Box. Inserts an HTML list box at the insertion point.
Textbox. Inserts an HTML text box at the insertion point.
Submit. Inserts an HTML button (automatically titled Submit) at the insertion point.
Reset. Inserts an HTML Reset button at the insertion point (for resetting a form).
Hidden. Inserts a hidden HTML field at the insertion point.
Lets you draw a floating text box (see Text Boxes).
Brings up the Insert Movie dialog box, where you can select a QuickTime, AVI, or MPEG movie to insert into the document.
Lets you insert one Word file into another—at the insertion point—just as though you’d copied and pasted it.
Opens the Object window, where you can select one of several Office object types for insertion (see Other objects).
Inserts a bookmark in the currently open document. The bookmark can be used to mark text, pictures or tables (see Bookmarks).
Opens the Insert Hyperlink window, where you can insert a new hyperlink to a Web page, a document, or an email address (see Paste as Hyperlink). Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-K.