MicroSoft Word Tutorial
This on-line tutorial is designed to teach you the basics of MicroSoft Word. The first four pages show you the basic functions you will need to perform to produce a document. The following pages contain exercises for you to do. To open the course exercises you must have MicroSoft Word installed on your machine. Word will open automatically when you click on an exercise.
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Open your Microsoft Word Program.
Have a good look at your screen and familiarise yourself with it.
Your screen may look slightly different to the one shown, depending on how many programs you have open and how many toolbars you have on view. |
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1.1 Cursor
The cursor can be seen as a flashing vertical line. This is the point at which the text you type will begin. Note that you cannot move the cursor on a blank screen. It will only move over existing text or blank spaces, made by pressing the spacebar or enter key. If you can move your cursor over a screen that appears blank, this is because you have either pressed your spacebar or your Enter key.
1.2 Insertion Point
By moving your mouse across the editing screen you can see the insertion point as a vertical endcapped line. You can quickly move your cursor to any point in your document by moving the insertion point to the appropriate place and clicking on the left mouse button.
| 1.3 Toolbars |  |
At the top of your screen you may see one or more toolbars.
The
Standard Toolbar has buttons showing icons for functions such as:
New Open Save Print Print Preview Spellcheck etc.
The
Formatting Toolbar has buttons for functions such as:
Font Font Size Bold Italics Underline etc.
If you move your pointer slowly across the toolbars a label will appear, describing what each button is used for.
You can choose which toolbars you have visible by clicking on the View dropdown menu and choosing toolbars. A dialogue box will appear showing check boxes. You can make your choice by clicking each box to turn the checks on or off. For the purpose of this course you will need to use both the Standard and the Formatting Toolbars.
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1.4 Scroll Bar You can scroll up and down your screen using the vertical scroll bar on the right hand side of the screen. The single arrow at the top will take you higher up your page and the single arrow at the bottom will take you further down. If your document contains more than one page, you can scroll up or down a full page at a time by clicking the double up and double down arrows respectively. There may also be a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the screen that will allow you to scroll from left to right. |
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