ITEC 1050 - Using Word: Lab 1

Using MS Office Programs: Getting Started

• Start/Exit a program
• Executing commands in MS Office programs: Menus, Toolbars, right-click
  • Dimmed appearance
• The Task Pane in MS Office programs
  • Display/Hide
  • Available task panes: Getting started, Help, Clipboard
• Work with toolbars
  • Adding additional buttons
  • Display/Hide
  • Move
• Getting Help

Using Word: Getting Started

• Parts of the MS Word window: title bar, menu bar, toolbars, ruler, scroll bar, insertion point, document views, status bar (current page, current section number, current page/total pages, distance from the top of the page, line and column).
• Specifying a new paragraph
• Tips
  • entering text anywhere in the document
  • modifying auto-corrected words (home development association HDA)
  • entering text automatically: Thank
• Select text: select a word, a sentence, a paragraph, any amount, all document
• Move through a document: moving the insertion point, displaying next and previous page, move at the begining and the end of a document

Using Word: Save, Open, Print

• Save, Save As, Close a document
• Open a document; open a recently edited document
• Common Locations: My Documents, Desktop, My Computer, My Network Places, My Recent Documents
• Print preview; editing the document in the print preview mode
• Print: the entire document, a few pages, a selection