1. Word Processing C/IL 102 Spring 2002 Dr. James Sidbury

2. General Application Lots of people use it to do lots of different things. The tasks performed are similar to tasks performed by other general applications

3. General Application Tasks Create a New Document Save a Document Load a Document Print a Document Edit a Document

4. Create a New Document Start with a blank document space in memory and create a new item from scratch

5. Save a Document Take the document in computer Memory and place a copy of it in Storage

6. Load A Document Take a document in Storage and put a copy in Memory

7. Print a Document Take a document (usually in memory) and put a copy of it usually on paper

8. Edit a Document Modify a document that is in memory by: – Adding more to it – Removing some of it – Changing part of it

9. Common Interface Most Microsoft office applications use common command methods. – The menus look alike – The tasks are similar – Thus learning one application shows you how to perform with another application.

10. Common Hot Keys Short cut command keys are consistent from one application to the next – For example Ctrl-C copies a block of text Ctrl-V pastes a block of text Ctrl-P prints a document Ctrl-N starts a new document

11. Learning the Specific Keystrokes That’s what lab is for.

12. Customizing Your Word I have modified my version of Word because of the specialized writing that I do. For example, here is part of a homework assignment in one of my classes. P  Q   (  P  Q) These mathematical symbols were inserted by defining macro keys within word This method is useful in both science and foreign languages

13. Let’s See How To Do This