Lesson 6: Working with Word Basics

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Learning Objectives After studying this lesson, you will be able to:

Use and customize the Ribbon Use the Quick Access toolbar and the Mini toolbar Open and close documents Navigate in a document Use Word help

Presenting Word 2010 What can Word 2010 do? Powerful document authoring

Desktop publishing Web publishing Create and modify a wide variety of documents

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Starting Word Choose Microsoft Office > Word from the All Programs

menu Use the Quick Launch toolbar Double-click a Word document icon in Explorer

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Word 2010 Interface Basics Quick Access toolbar

Insertion point

The Ribbon

File tab

Zoom controlTip! The insertion point is also referred to as the cursor.

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Opening Word Documents1. Click File tab

2. Click Open icon

3. Navigate to your file

4. Double-click to open

Opening Older Word Documents Compatibility Mode

Edit documents from previous versions of Word New Word 2010 features are not available

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Working with the Word 2010 Interface The Ribbon

Tools for building, formatting, and editing

Quick Access toolbar Frequently used commands such as copy and paste

Mini Toolbar Frequently used formatting commands

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The Ribbon

Home tab Paragraph group Increase Indent command

Tabs Groups Commands

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The Quick Access Toolbar Upper-left corner of the screen Contains frequently used commands Customizable

Right-click a Ribbon command to add it to the Quick Access toolbar

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Navigating in a Word Document Insertion point (or cursor) Navigation methods:

Mouse Scroll Bar

Scroll Bar navigation does not move the insertion point

Keyboard

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Navigating with the Scroll Bar

Scroll up line by line

Clicking in the open part moves you up or down

Scroll down line by line

Page up

Page down

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Navigating with the Keyboard Keyboard navigation moves the insertion point Arrow keys navigate one space or line at a time [Page Up] and [Page Down] keys [Home] and [End] go to the start or finish of a line [Ctrl]+[Home] and [Ctrl]+[End] go to the start or finish

of the document

Closing Documents Close by clicking the File tab Choose Close from the menu Word will prompt you to save your file

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Starting a New Blank Document Start by clicking the File tab Choose the New command for a blank document

[Ctrl]+[N] is the new document shortcut

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Getting Help in Word 2010 Click the Help button

in the upper-right corner

Use the Table of Contents to browse topics

Use search to look for a topic

Exiting from Word Click the File tab and select the Exit button

You can also use the Close button on the upper-right corner of the Word window

Save before shutting down your computer! You will be prompted to save if you have not done so

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Lesson 6: Working with Word Basics