Microsoft Office Word Review

Word is most likely the word processor you will end up using, especially as that's what the school has, so let's review it's features.

The Home Bar.

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With this bar you can change the way your text looks.

Either make changes before you type or highlight your text (by holding the left mouse button and pulling down until you reach the end.)

-Where it says “Calibri (Body) is where you can change the font. Click on the little downward facing arrow to look at the menu.

-Where it says “11” is where you can change the size of the text.

-The B will make your text bold. You can also do this by pressing “Ctrl” and “b” at the same time. Press them again to stop writing in bold text.

-The slanted I is for italic text. The shortcut for this is “Ctrl” and “I”.

-The U is for underlining you text. The shortcut is “Ctrl” and “u”.

-The “A” with the red line under it gives you options to change the color of your text.

-The “ab” with the yellow line under it gives you options to change the color of the background behind your text.

-The little lines of text over the word Paragraph let you change where the text aligns.

The one that is highlighted and is standard aligns text to the left. The next puts everything in the middle, and the last to the right.
-If you click the little arrow to the right of the word Paragraph the paragraph menu will pop up. Under the tab Indents and Spacing in the Spacing section is the Line Spacing option. You can set this to Single (this will leave no space between your lines of text) or Double (this leaves a line of space between text). Click Don't add space between paragraphs of the same style if you don't want an extra line of space when you hit the Enter key for a new paragraph.
-The easiest way to delete something is to highlight it (press and hold the left mouse key and move the cursor over the text) and press the Backspace key.

The Page Layout Bar.

This bar changes the page itself rather than anything on it.

You can change the margins of the page if you really want.

You can change the orientation of the page from portrait to landscape. Landscape is good for brochures and signs.

You can add more columns or change the color or the page itself.

You can also add a page border.

Notice up at the top the left facing arrow next to the Save button (the blue disk). That will undo whatever you’ve just done. You can press it as many times as you need to. If you change your mind after undoing something you can press the right facing arrow to put it back in.

Shortcuts:

Ctrl + c is Copy. You can “copy” text or a picture and then “paste” it in the new place.

Ctrl + v is Paste. This adds whatever you’ve copied.

Ctrl + b is Bold.

Ctrl + I is Italics.

Ctrl + u is Underline.

Ctrl + z is Undo.

Ctrl + y is Redo.

Ctrl + n is New document.

Ctrl + s is Save.

Ctrl + p is Print.