1. Basic Computer Skills For Today’s Job Seeker Presented by Scott Foster And the Valley Christian Center

2. Part 2 MS Word for Job Seekers Presented by Scott Foster And the Valley Christian Center

3. What is MS Word?  Popular word processing software program.  What is word processing?  Creating electronic documents such as letters, resumes, forms, and other “written” papers.  Can be created on the computer and attached to emails, stored on various types of drives, and also printed into hard copy form.  For job seekers, the most important documents are the resume, the letter, and the personal data sheet.  These are the documents that we’ll focus on.

4. How to Use MS Word Step 1 – Click on the Start Button

5. How to Use MS Word Step 2 – Click on Microsoft Word – Home Tab

6. How to Use MS Word Note the other Tabs at the top of the Screen

7. How to Use MS Word Note the other Tabs at the top of the Screen These are some of the most important features for our purposes.

8. How to Use MS Word When we click on the Font Style, it gives us a font menu that actually shows us what the font looks like.

9. How to Use MS Word We can also click on the Bold, Italics, and Underline buttons to perform those functions Font

10. How to Use MS Word The Paragraph section is also important for us. We can pick how to justify our text – to the left, centered, right, or justified left and right.

11. How to Use MS Word Note the other Tabs at the top of the Screen We may also choose to use the bullet point and numbering features on Word. The bullet points are especially useful on when writing a resume. Bullet Point menu

12. How to Use MS Word The Margins Menu on the Page Layout Tab is another important feature for us to know.

13. How to Use MS Word The Spelling and Grammar Button on the Review Tab is also very useful. It checks your spelling.