2. 1 CA201 Word Application Working with Documents Lecture # 1 By Tariq Ibn Aziz Dammam Community college

3. Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 2 Objectives In this chapter you will learn to: –Get started with Word –Create, save, and close documents –Open and view existing documents –Decide which view to use when

4. Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 3 Getting Started with Word When you use a computer program to create, edit, and produce text documents, you are word processing. Word includes many desktop publishing features that you can use to enhance the appearance of documents so that they are appealing and easy to read.

5. Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 4 Getting Started with Word

6. Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 5 Getting Started with Word

7. Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 6 Creating, Saving, and Closing Documents

8. Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 7 Saving a File for Use in Another Program If you want to save a Word document in a format that can be opened by the widest variety of programs, you can use one of the following formats: –Rich Text Format (*.rtf). Save the document in this format if you want its formatting to be preserved. –Text Only (*.txt). Save the document in this format if you want only the text of the document to be preserved.

9. Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 8 Opening and Viewing Existing Documents You can also open a document by clicking the Open button on the Standard toolbar. You can also move around a document by moving the insertion point. You can use key combinations to move the insertion point quickly.

10. Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 9 Opening and Viewing Existing Documents

11. Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 10 Deciding Which View to Use When In Word, you can view a document in a variety of ways: –Print Layout view –Normal view –Web Layout view –Outline view –Reading Layout view –Document Map

12. Tariq Aziz, Dammam Community College 11 Chapter Key Points You can open and view more than one Word document, but only one document can be active at a time. You create Word documents by entering text and symbols at the insertion point, When you save a Word document, you can specify its name, location, and file format in the Save As dialog box. You can view a document in a variety of ways, depending on your needs as you create the document and on the purpose for which you are creating it.