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Chapter 16. Advanced Document Formatting > Summarizing a Document Automatically - Pg. 417

Advanced Document Formatting 417 Tip from To adjust the wrapping points--the points Word uses to judge how closely it should move text to the graphic--select the graphic, and then bring up the Drawing toolbar. Click Draw, Text Wrapping, Edit Wrap Points. (Edit Wrap Points also appears as an icon on the Picture toolbar.) Click and drag any of the text-wrapping points--you can even have text wrap onto the graphic itself. When you're finished, click outside the graphic, and Word rearranges the text. Summarizing a Document Automatically Word includes a feature called AutoSummarize that can, under just the right circumstances, help you create a summary of a document. Word does that by coming up with a word frequency list, and then rating each sentence in the document according to how many frequently used words appear in the sentence. You then assign a cutoff point, and any sentence that exceeds the cutoff point is included in the summary. You might want to try AutoSummarize on highly structured, repetitive documents, just to see whether it generates anything other than gibberish. To use it, choose Tools, AutoSummarize. Specify whether you want to highlight the high-scoring sentences or extract those sentences and use them to create a free-standing summary. Assign the cutoff point by choosing a percentage size for the summary (say, you want the summary