Microsoft Word (Office 2007 Vista)

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About Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word has been the leading word processing program for more than a decade and is used by millions of people around the world. It is best suited for creating documents such as forms, letters, and reports. This tutorial will concentrate on these types of documents. There are some types of documents that can be created with Word, such as web pages, magazines, and newspapers, however we recommend using another program such as Adobe InDesign for such documents.

Getting Started
  • Menus
  • Shortcut menus
  • Toolbars
  • Customizing toolbars

Working With Files
  • Creating and opening documents
  • Saving documents
  • Renaming documents
  • Working on multiple documents
  • Closing a document

Working With Text
  • Typing and inserting text
  • Selecting text
  • Deleting text
  • Format Painter
  • Undo

Paragraph Formatting
  • Paragraph attributes
  • Moving, copying, and pasting text
  • Clipboard
  • Columns
  • Drop caps

Styles
  • Applying a style
  • Applying a style from the style dialog box
  • Creating a new styles from a model
  • Creating a simple style from the style dialog box
  • Modifying or renaming a style
  • Deleting a style

Lists
  • Bulleted and numbered lists
  • Nested lists
  • Formatting lists

Tables
  • Insert Table button
  • Drawing a table
  • Inserting rows and columns
  • Moving and resizing a table
  • Tables and Borders toolbar
  • Table properties

Graphics
  • Inserting an image from a file
  • Editing a graphic
  • AutoShapes

Proofing
  • AutoCorrect
  • Spelling and grammar check
  • Thesaurus

Page Formatting
  • Page margins
  • Page size and orientation
  • Headers and footers
  • Page numbers
  • Print preview and printing

Macros
  • Recording a macro
  • Running a macro

Table of Contents
  • Marking table of contents entries
  • Generate a table of contents

Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Shortcut references
  • Finding shortcuts

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