Creating Documents with Word 2007
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- Microsoft Word is a word processing program used to create:
- Letters Memos Newsletters Research papers Web pages Business cards Resumes Financial reports Other types of documents
- What is a word processing program.
- Is a software that allows you to enter, edit, and format text and graphics Copy and move text Format text with fonts and color Format and design page layout Insert tables, charts, diagrams, and graphics Use mail merge to create form letters
- Plan a document before you create it
- Identify: Message Audience Needed elements (charts, tables, etc.) Appropriate tone and look for the document (formal, playful, etc.)
- Word program window
- opens and displays a blank document
- insertion point
- indicates where text appears when you type
- mouse pointer
- changes shape depending on its location in the Word program window
- Ribbon
- contains tabs
- Tabs
- include buttons for commands organized in groups
- Quick Access toolbar
- contains frequently used commands and is customizable
- Title bar
- displays the program and document names
- Office button
- opens a menu of commands related to managing and sharing documents
- Microsoft Office Help button
- provides access to the Word Help system
- Document window
- displays the current document
- Rulers
- show margin, tab, and indent settings
- Scroll bars
- are used to display different parts of the document in the document window
- View buttons
- are used to switch between Word document views
- Zoom level button and Zoom slider
- provide quick ways to enlarge and decrease a document onscreen view
- Status bar
- shows page information, the location of the insertion point, and the on/off status of several Word features
- word-wrap feature
- As you type, the insertion point moves automatically to the next line when you reach the right margin Press [Enter] only when you want to start a new paragraph
- Insert
- text in a document by clicking to move the insertion point and then typing
- Delete text
- Press [Backspace] to delete the text before the insertion point Press [Delete] to delete the text after the insertion point
- Insert text in a document
- by clicking to move the insertion point and then typing
- Web Layout view
- displays a document as it will look when viewed on a computer screen using a Web browser
- Outline view
- displays the headings in a document in outline form
- Draft view
- shows a simplified layout of a document, without margins, headers and footers, or graphics
- Print Layout view
- displays a document as it will look on a printed page
- Full Screen Reading view
- displays document so it is easy to read onscreen
- Zoom feature
- Enlarge document for a close-up view Reduce document for an overview of the layout
- Undo button
- Reverse the last action
- Redo button
- Restore a change that you reversed
- Repeat command
- Repeat a change