Microsoft Word Basics

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Microsoft Word Basics

• PED 3900

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Set-up

• Open Word
• Go to Tools
• then Customize ? Options ? Always show full
  menu
• In Options are view, general, edit, print,
  spelling, etc. options
• Use File or the short cut controlO to open a
  new, blank document
• Open a Browser (Explorer or Netscape)
• Go to PED 3900 web page and download
  orton-article
• Or - find a news article on the internet and
  paste into a Word document
• Once you find an article, click on the print
  option (usually at the bottom of the article) but
  dont actually print the document.
• Copy by either dragging and selecting the entire
  document or select all control A, copy control
  C and past control V into Word document
• Save control S or Save As to the desktop
• Download orton picture to the desktop

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File

• New
• Open
• Save control S
• Save as
• next slide
• Save as web page

• Page set up
• Print preview
• Printcontrol P
• Send to
• Properties
• List of recent documents
• Exit (same as X in upper right corner)

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Save as

• Where to save your file
• What to call your file
• What type of file to save
• Word (.doc)
• Document template
• Text only
• RTF (.rtf)
• Can be used to save old document under a new name
  or to a different location (e.g. a new folder)

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Edit

• Undo Typing Ctrl-Z
• Repeat Ctrl-Y
• Cut Ctrl-X / Copy Ctrl-C / Paste Ctrl-V
• Select All Ctrl-A
• Find
• Replace
• Go to

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View

• Normal
• Web Layout
• Print Layout
• Tool bar
• Header and Footer
• Full screen/Zoom

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Insert

• Break
• Page Numbers
• Date and Time
• Auto Text
• Symbol
• Comment

• Footnote/Caption/Cross-reference
• Index and Table of Contents
• Picture (next slide)
• Table
• Hyperlink

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Picture

• Clip Art
• From file
• AutoShapes
• WordArt
• New Drawing
• From Scanner or Camera
• Chart

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Tables

• Create a simple table
• Click where you want to create a table.
• Click Insert Table on the Standard toolbar.
• Drag to select the number of rows and columns you
  want.
• Note   You can use the Table AutoFormat command
  to quickly give a table a polished look by using
  a variety of borders, fonts, and shading.

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Create a complex table

• Click where you want to create the table.
• On the Tables and Borders toolbar, click Draw
  Table .
• The pointer changes to a pencil.
• To define the outer table boundaries, draw a
  rectangle. Then draw the column and row lines
  inside the rectangle.
• To erase a line or block of lines, click Eraser
  , and then drag over the line.
• When you finish creating the table, click a cell
  and start typing or insert a graphic.
• Tip   Hold down CTRL to automatically apply text
  wrapping while you draw the table.

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Convert existing text to a table

• When you convert text to a table, you use
  separator characters to indicate where a new
  column should begin. Microsoft Word begins new
  rows at paragraph marks. If you also choose
  paragraph marks as your separator characters,
  Word converts your text into a table with one
  column.
• Indicate where you want to divide text into
  columns by inserting the separator characters you
  want.
• Select the text you want to convert.
• On the Table menu, point to Convert, and then
  click Text to Table.
• Under Separate text at, click the option for the
  separator character you want.

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Format

• Font
• Paragraph
• Bullets and Numbering
• Borders and Shading
• Columns
• Tabs

• Background
• Theme
• Frames
• Autoformat
• Letter format
• Style

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Tools

• Spelling and Grammar
• Language
• Thesaurus
• Word Count
• skip
• Options

• Auto Summarize
• Skip
• Customize
• Option

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Window
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Help
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Word Assignment

• Alter the Lance Armstrong Word document to show
  you can
• Insert a Header or Footer with your name in it.
• Insert a Page break
• Insert Page numbers
• Insert the Date or Time
• Insert a Picture from a file
• Insert Clipart
• Insert a Diagram (organizational chart)

• Insert a Hyperlink
• Use more than one type and size of Font
• Insert Bullets
• Divide a page or section into Columns (split 1
  page or paragraph into 2 columns)
• Insert a Table
• Insert more than one type of Symbol

Email the finished assignment as an attachment to
Dr. Emmett before next Monday, 1200 noon.