MS Word Tutorials

MICROSOFT WORD

Microsoft Word is a word processing software package. You can use it to type letters, reports and other documents. It gives you the ability to use your computer for desktop publishing. This tutorial is about Microsoft word 2007 basics. This is the first tutorial on Microsoft word. In this tutorial I introduce you to word window. So see the screen shot of word window below;

Title bar

 This shows the document name and program name.

Menu bar

It consist of different options use for documents composing etc

Standard Tool bar.

It consist of small icon commands mostly used

Formatting Tool bar

Consist of formatting tools icon

Ruler

used for setting page margin, indents and tabs

 Insertion point

the location where the next character will appear

Help

Provide to quick access to help topic

Scroll bar

use to see the parts of documents

Task pane

provide to easy access to commonly used buttons, menus and tools

Office Assistant

link to MS office help features

 STARTING OF MS WORD 2007

 

 Click on the START button on your computer and position your cursor over the

PROGRAMS menu to view a list of installed programs. Now from this list select

The Microsoft Office Group and click on Microsoft Word. 

 The application opens a blank page similar to a text pad with scroll bars to the right

And at the bottom. Now you can type your essay in the blank area using your

keyboard.

To save this document on the desktop:

 Click on FILE at the top of the page. 

 Next, select SAVE from the drop-down list.  Microsoft Word 2007

     This opens a pop-up window where you can specify the location on your

computer where you want to save the file. You can click the DOCUMENTS or DESKTOP

option on the left and give an appropriate name for the file before clicking

on the SAVE button. 

 Microsoft Word files are saved as Document files (the file extension for word files is

.doc).

 To open your file again for further editing, you can double click on the file, which will

automatically load the application and open your file. Microsoft Word 2007

    

 Set the Background

Using the Background feature, you can apply a different color or a texture to the

Background of your document.

To change the background of the document, click on FORMAT from the menu bar at the

top of the application. Move your cursor to BACKGROUND. Using the sub-menu, you

can select any COLOR or FILL EFFECTS for the background of the document.