MS WORD Introduction to computers

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

Office Button

Ribbon Tabs You can switch between tabs using the mouse wheel

Minimizing the Ribbon

Groups

Groups (Dialog box launcher )

Saving Microsoft Word documents

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

Opening and closing documents

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

Using Help within Microsoft Word

Alt key help

Closing Microsoft Word Microsoft Office button >> Exit Word

Saving documents using different formats

Word Document: Word Document: Plain Text: Rich Text Format: Template:

Creating documents using different templates Press Installed Templates

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

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)

Inserting, deleting, undo and redo

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'.

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

Using the Clipboard

Text Formatting

Font type

Font size

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.

Subscript and superscript

Case changing

Highlighting

Font color

Copying text formatting Using Format Painter

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

Using Zoom

Inserting special characters and symbols