Microsoft Word 2000 Basics Presentation 1

Microsoft Word 2000 A full-featured word processing program that allows you to create and revise professional looking documents

Major Microsoft Word Topics:  Word Basics –Window –Menus –Toolbar –Help/Office Assistant  Manipulating Documents –Creating –Opening –Saving –Printing –Closing

Word Topics cont…  Font –Format Face Type Style Color  Tools –Spelling/Grammar Check –Templates –AutoCorrect –Word Count

Word Topics cont…  Editing Text –Inserting –Deleting –Moving –Finding

Word Topics cont…  Pages/Paragraphs –Alignment –Layouts/Views –Setup and margins –Numbering –Headers/Footers  Table/Columns/Lists

Word Topics cont…  Graphics –Clip art –Symbols –Word Art –AutoShapes

Word Topics cont… Advanced Features Merge (Mail) Hyperlinks Themes Fax

Starting and Customizing Word  Starting Word  Toolbars and Menus –Commands  Customizing the Word Window  Navigation  Help/Office Assistant

Word Basics Standard toolbar has icons where you can perform different tasks such as saving a document, indenting a paragraph, using paragraph markers, change page width, etc. View choices allow you to view Word in Normal, Web Layout, Print, and Outline Views.

Beginning Word  Open Word –Scroll down the page  Get familiar with menu commands –Some menu commands have short-cuts listed beside them  Arrows on Menus –Click on the arrows –Mean that there are more commands below

Customizing Toolbars  Many toolbars displaying shortcut buttons are also available to make editing and formatting quicker and easier. Select View|Toolbars from the menu bar to select the toolbars.  The toolbars that are already displayed on the screen are checked.

Customizing Toolbars cont…  Add a toolbar simply by clicking on the name.  Toolbars and Commands tabs allow you to customize and choose which toolbars and buttons you want displayed.

Customizing Commands 1. Highlight command categories in the Categories box choices will change in the Commands box to the right. 2. Select command you would like to add to the toolbar by selecting it in the Commands box. 3. Drag command with the mouse to desired location on the toolbar and release the mouse button. 4. Remove a button from the toolbar by clicking and dragging the button off the toolbar.

Shortcut Menus  These features allow you to access various Word commands faster than using the options on the menu bar.  View shortcut menus by right-clicking with the mouse.  Options on the shortcut menu will vary depending on the element that was right- clicked.

Microsoft Word Help  Office Assistant  What’s This?  Office on the Web

Basics of Creating Documents  Document Window –Opening a Document –Font Formatting Aligning Spell/Grammar check – Page Layouts and Views

Manipulating Documents/Files  Opening –New –Existing  Saving –Save –Save as  Printing  Closing

Saving a Document  Save as –Name (rename) the file –Save file in new location  Save –File has already been named –Save location is already set

Format Font  Highlight –Ctrl click (selects sentence) –Edit menu/ Select All (select entire document) –F8 (selects words, sentences, and entire doc.)  Face –Times New Roman –Arial –Courier New

Format Font cont…  Style –Bold –Italics –Underline  Color  Size