Microsoft Word is a word processing program you can use to write letters, resumés, reports, and more. Anything you can create with a typewriter; you can create with Word. You can make your documents more appealing and easier to read by applying formatting to text.
Class Objectives
Creating, saving, and printing documents
Checking spelling and grammar
Highlighting, copying, and pasting text
Creating tables
Formatting lists
Applying headers and footers
Getting Started
Double-click the Microsoft Word icon to open the program. If you have used Word 2003 or older, you will notice differences in the layout of the screen. Microsoft has replaced the menu bar and toolbars with the Ribbon, which is organized into different tabbed sections at the top, each with their own set of tools. The Title Bar is centered. At the bottom right you can zoom in and out of your document view. Below is an image of the Microsoft Word screen.
The Home, Insert, Design, Layout, References, Mailings, Review, and View tabs will allow you to work on your document. The File tab will take you to a backstage view where you can save, print, and administer your document—you’ll see a different view, but your document is still available when you click back to another tab.
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Creating a New Document
Choose the File tab above the ribbon and select New in the left sidebar.
Click Blank Document. OR
Click the New Document icon on the Quick Access Toolbar.
Templates
Templates are preformatted documents. When you open a template, you will see text that you can type over.
Word has templates for many kinds of documents including resumés, brochures, award certificates, and letters. To download and open a template:
Choose the File tab above the ribbon and select New in the left sidebar.
Click on one of the listed templates and then click Create. OR
Search for a template in the search bar. You will need to be connected to the Internet to download new templates.
Saving
Files are saved in folders on your computer, disk drives, CD drives, cloud drives, and USB drives.
To save a document:
Click the File tab above the ribbon.
Click Save As on the left side of the screen.
Where do you want it? Click Browse, then choose the folder you want to save your file in.
What will you call it? Type the name for the file in the File Name box. Word will automatically use the first line of the document as the file name. You can use it or type in a new one.
Which format is best? If you want to use an older computer to access a document that you created in Word 2019, be sure to select Word 97-2003 Document in the Save As Type box. You may also want to save your file as a PDF to protect it and lock it from editing, or as Plain Text to make it easier to copy/paste into a website.
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