Introduction to Microsoft Word 2010

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Topics 1 & 2

The Microsoft Word Window will open up ready for you to create a new document.

1 The ribbon, which sits above the document, includes a set of buttons and commands that you use to do things in and with your document (like print it).  

2 A blank document, which looks like a white sheet of paper and takes up most of the window.

Topic 3Steps 1 & 2

Creating a new document

• look for the cursor, a blinking vertical line in the upper-left corner of the page

Step 3

Placing the cursor

Move the cursor to another location by moving the pointer with your mouse and then clicking or by using the arrow keys on the keyboard.

Step 4

Save your document

• Click on the File tab to save your document

Step 5

Selecting Text

• Using your mouse to select text could not be any easier. Simply find the location you would like to start selecting from and place your mouse cursor there. Then press and hold the left mouse button and drag the cursor to the last area you would like to highlight. You will find that as you are holding the left mouse button and dragging the mouse cursor, the text between where you first pressed the button and where you dragged the cursor to will now be highlighted.

Step 7

Format text

• Change the look of your text using the font group.Font Bold

Font size Italics

Font color Underline

Highlight Subscripts

Step 7

UNDO!

Made a change in your document and then decided against it?

Just click on the “Undo” button. This will undo the last action you took. Clicking again will undo the previous action and so on…

Step 8

Duplicate text using Copy & Paste

3. Place the cursor where you want the copied text to appear.

4. Using the Home Tab on the ribbon, click Paste.

1. Select the text you want to copy.

2. Using the Home Tab on the ribbon, click Copy.

Step 11

Moving text by using Cut and Paste

Select the text that you want to move

Using the Home tab on the ribbon, click on Cut .

Move the cursor to where you want the text to appear.

Using the Home tab on the ribbon, click on Paste.

Step 12

Adjusting the layout of your page

– Select margin sizes for entire document or current section.

– Switch between portrait or landscape page layout.

– Select your paper size.

Step 13

Saving and Printing your document

• Click on the File tab to save or print your document!

Step 14

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