Word Processing
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- Objectives
- Understand word processing, explore the word program window, start a document, save a document.
- Unit Introduction Microsoft Word is a word processing program used to create
- letters, memos, newsletters, research papers, web pages, business cards resumes, finicail reports, other types of documents
- Word Processing Program
- software that allows you to enter, edit, and format text and graphics
- Documents
- files you create using word
- Word Processing includes:
- graphic, formatted text, table, header, column, chart
- Plan a document before you create it and identify:
- message, audience, needed elements, appropiate tone and look for the document
- Word program window
- opens and displays a blank
- insertion point
- indicates where text appears when you type
- mouse pointer
- changes shape depending on its location in the Word program window
- Word Program includes:
- quick access toolbar, ribbon, ruler, status bar, document window, title bar, scroll bar and view buttons.
- 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
- 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
- nsert
- text in a document by clicking to move the insertion point and then typing
- Delete
- Press [Backspace] to delete the text before the insertion point Press [Delete] to delete the text after the insertion point
- Automatic features that might appear as you type
- AutoComplete AutoCorrect Spelling and Grammar
- file
- To store a document permanently, you must save it as
- when you SAVE a file:
- give it a name,
- filename
- name of a file after having been given a name
- Saving
- updates the stored copy of the file with your changes
- Save button, Save command
- use this to save a file.
- select
- text before deleting, editing, or formatting it
- Formatting marks
- are special characters that appear on screen to help you edit and format text
- To select text quickly
- learn to use the mouse to select words, lines, paragraphs, and other large blocks of text
- Print Preview
- shows a document as it will look when printed
- template
- is a formatted document that contains placeholder text
- Undo button
- Reverse the last action
- Redo button
- Restore a change that you reversed.
- Repeat Command
- Repeat a change
- Zoom feature
- Enlarge document for a close-up view Reduce document for an overview of the layout
- views
- ways of displaying a document
- 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
- 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