1. MS WORD Introduction to computers

2. Starting Microsoft Word 2007 Start >> All programs >> Microsoft Office>> Microsoft Office Word 2007. At desktop>>mouse right click>>new>>Microsoft office word document

3. Office Button

5. Ribbon Tabs You can switch between tabs using the mouse wheel

6. Minimizing the Ribbon

7. Groups

8. Groups (Dialog box launcher )

9. Saving Microsoft Word documents

10. Microsoft Office button >> Save As >> “your file name” >> Save button. >> Close By default the Microsoft Word document will be saved into a folder called My Documents. If you wanted to change the folder in which the file is saved you would click on the down arrow to the right of the Save in section of the dialog box and navigate to the required folder

11. Opening and closing documents

12. Creating a new document Ctrl+N >> type in your name >> save the document >> “My New Document” >> Close the document

13. Using Help within Microsoft Word

14. Alt key help

15. Closing Microsoft Word Microsoft Office button >> Exit Word

16. Saving documents using different formats

17. Word Document: Word 97-2003 Document: Plain Text: Rich Text Format: Template:

18. Creating documents using different templates Press Installed Templates

19. Manipulating Text Remember the general rule when using Microsoft Windows. Normally you need to select an item first (so that Windows knows what you are interested in), and then format it

20. Selecting text Select character or more.(shift + left/right arrow key) Selecting a word.(double click) Selecting to the beginning of a line.(shift + home key) Selecting to the end of a line.(shift + end key) Selecting an entire line of text. Selecting a sentence.(move the mouse pointer within the sentence which you wish to select. Depress the CTRL key and then click within the sentence). Selecting a paragraph.(Triple click) selecting the entire document. (Ctrl + A)

21. Inserting, deleting, undo and redo

22. Copying text within a document Ctrl+C. This copies the selected text into the Clipboard Press Ctrl+V. This pastes the text from the Clipboard to the current position of the 'Insertion point'.

23. Moving (cutting) text within a document Ctrl+X Ctrl+V

24. Using the Clipboard

25. Text Formatting

26. Font type

27. Font size

28. Bold, italic or underline To format the selected word as bold, italic or underlined, click on the icons displayed on the Home tab. To remove this formatting from a word, Select the word and re-click on the Bold, Italic or Underline icon.

29. Subscript and superscript

30. Case changing

31. Highlighting

32. Font color

33. Copying text formatting Using Format Painter

34. Removing formatting Select a portion of text and apply formatting such as bold, italic and underlining. Click on the Clear Formatting icon. The formatting is removed

35. Using Zoom

36. Inserting special characters and symbols