1. WORD BASICS: THE HOME MENU READ THROUGH THE FOLLOWING SLIDES AND FILL OUT YOUR STUDY GUIDE

2. 1. THE HOME MENU  The Home menu is where you find most of your formatting items: Clipboard Font Paragraph Styles

3. 2. FORMATTING: HOW YOUR DOCUMENT WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN OR WHEN PRINTED. 3. Formatting is elements like font style, size, margins, line spacing, bolding, italics, underlining, numbers and bullets, and alignment.

4. 4. Clipboard Place where cut or copied text is stored for future use 5. Copy To make a duplicate so you can put it in another place. Ctrl + C

5. 6. Cut To remove part of a document, usually placing it temporarily in memory so that the cut portion can be inserted (pasted) elsewhere Ctrl + X 7. Paste To insert text or a graphic that has been cut or copied from one document into a different location in the same or a different document. Ctrl + V

6. 8. FONT 8. FONT-THE LOOK OR THE DESIGN OF THE WORDS, NUMBERS, SYMBOLS. USE THE PULL DOWN MENU TO SEE YOUR CHOICES

7. 9. FONT SIZING 9. FONT SIZING- CHANGING THE SIZE OF THE WORDS OR TEXT. THERE IS ALSO A SIZE UP AND DOWN OPTION FOR SPEED AND CONVENIENCE. Select the text and click either the size up or down button to change the size or use the drop down size menu to specify a font size.

8. 10. TEXT STYLES 10. TEXT STYLES-AN EFFECT THAT CAN BE APPLIED TO A FONT. 11. Bold: Thickens the characters 12. Italics: Slants the text to the right 13. Underline: Adds a line under the characters 14. Font color: The color the text, numbers, or symbols appear as 15. Text Effects: Adds a visual effect to selected words-like a shadow or glow

9. 16. Bullets A typographical symbol, such as a circle, diamond, box, or asterisk, used to set off a small block of text or each item in a list.

10. 17. Numbering: 17. Numbering: The command for the computer to automatically start a numbered list for you, sometimes it will take over after you have started numbering

11. 18. Indents: 18. Indents: Increases or decreases the amount the text is indented from the margin

12. 19. Alignment: 19. Alignment: The way lines of text are arranged to the edges of a block of text Left justified Center justified Right justified

13. 20. Line Spacing: 20. Line Spacing: The number of the blank spaces between lines of type. In a word processor, spacing can be set to almost any amount of line spacing. Pull down the Line Spacing button on the Home Menu and select the size of spacing you want to use. Types: 1.0 Single Spacing 2.0 Double Spacing

14. 21. Border 21. Border: a line or box that frames the text, use the drop down menu to specify what types of border

15. 22. STYLES: 22. STYLES: A SELECTION OF PRE-SET FORMATS. SELECT THE TEXT AND CHOOSE WHICH STYLE YOU WANT FROM THE DROP DOWN MENU.