Word 2007 Introduction

First, well take you through the Microsoft great power energy, he expeditious overture Toolbar, screw threads, bank checks and sorts to familiarize you with these super C features. Then well show you around of the unique palms, contraceptive pills and Groups of sever bothy act. If you perk up 2007 Office installed on your computer here ar a couple of hints on how well proceed. To open an diligence, Double cut through quick on the application icon (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc. ) on the Windows desk go. Or, track the Start clitoris, in the lower oddover command of the secrecy, then cut through All Programs, roleplay the cursor over Microsoft Office and take aim the application you desire.In this tutorial, when we indicate that you ingest to click a mouse button, it allow for mean to click the left mouse button unless we indicate that you should click the in effect(p) mouse button. So, forever and a day be given the cursor over the place we indicate a nd click left unless we tell you otherwise. The Microsoft Office pushing Well use Microsoft Word 2007 for our initial illustrations of Ribbon, halt and Group examples. The first thing youll notice, when you open a 2007 Office application is that there is no longer a File selection in the Menu Bar.The arrow above points to the Microsoft Office Button which replaces File. As you displace your cursor over the ight) leave behind take care. Click the Microsoft Office button. Microsott Ottlce Button a preview throw ( go for on When you click the Microsoft Office button, it lead enactment orange and a File worry add-in will appear ( identical to the image on the right). Youll notice that you outright have lowly images for choices and that some of them have little arrows pointing to the right. These arrows indicate that there are additional choices for a selection.Well show you 1 of these on the next page. On the right stead of the Microsoft Office Button menu cover version you will adjoin your virtually recently used files Recent Documents (see arrow above on right). apiece Microsoft Office Button menu is tailored to its Office application (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc). conk out your cursor over the arrow to the right ot the affect button (1 ),a menu ot print choices will appear on the right under lagger and print the document ( 2. ) (image on right). Click Print ( 3. ) at the top of the Menu. A standard Print Menu screen will appear.It is suggested that you make pass a some minutes clicking the various choices in the Microsoft Office Button menu screen to familiarize yourself with what they do. If you look at the bottom of the Microsoft Office Button menu screen you will see two uttons. Since were utilise Word, the buttons indicate Word Options and Exit Word. The buttons change with each application (e. g. PowerPoint will indicate PowerPoint Options). When you click the Word Options button the image below will appear. strike, on the lef t side of the menu screen there are a number of choices (e. g. Personalize, Display, Proofing, etc. . when you click a choice on the left side of the screen, the options for that choice appear on the right. Take a few minutes and roleplay through these choices to familiarize yourself with this menu screen. You will see that Microsoft has placed skunk of resources that were under File-Tools-options, in previous versions of Office, in this menu. The last choice Resources furnishes a lot of online resources for the application which you are using. We click ed the Microsott Word Resources schoolbook lin an image below appeared. Notice all of the useful online resources available to you. fast-flying penetration Toolbar In the upper left corner to the right of the Microsoft Office Button you will see an cranial orbit called the Quick Access Toolbar (image on left). This area is quite handy as it before long contains several of the most used buttons in Office applications Save, Undo, Redo, Print and Print dawdler. You can customize this toolbar by adding and removing as many another(prenominal) Quick Access button choices as you desire. In the Quick Access Toolbar (on the left) you can see we added the Insert Picture button since we are using it a lot for this tutorial.To add this button to the toolbar we first clicked the Insert baulk and then righteousness clicked the Insert Picture button. One of the choices was Add to Quick Access Toolbar. When we clicked this choice the Insert Picture button was added. You can add any button you choose by doing this. To remove buttons from the Quick Access Toolbar Just right-hand(a) click on the button you esire to remove and choose Remove from Quick Access Toolbar. Ribbons This is the bare-ass term you hear a lot astir(predicate) in 2007 Office. Ribbons stretch across the top of your application screen with features to pay heed you as you click the Ribbon bank checks.To us, check-out procedures and Ribbons are the same. It equal unreeling holiday laurel wreath from a spool and seeing new images on the ribbon in truth cool So, well cover assays/Ribbons in great detail. cheques Below the Microsoft Office Button and Quick Access Toolbar we see a series of chips/ Ribbons. Tabs are similar to the Drop Down Menu choices in previous versions of Office. The Tabs are, logically, a man different for each 2007 Office application to assist you with the most common features of that application. All the 2007 Office applications begin with the Home tab.The Home Tab/Ribbon tor Word 2007 looks like the image below. The Home Tab/Ribbon for PowerPoint 2007 looks like the image below. The Home Tab/Ribbon for Excel 2007 looks like the characterization below. The Home Tab/Ribbon for Access 2007 looks like the Image below. Youll quickly notice that the Home Tab/Ribbon for each application shows the Clipboard as the left Group (except in Access) In Word and Excel, the Font Tab/ Ribbon is to the right , but in PowerPoint, because deeding with slides is paramount, the Slides Tab/Ribbon comes next.If you have 2007 Office installed on your computer, open these four applications and take a few minutes looking at each applications Home Tab/Ribbon. Notice, the Tabs to the right of the Home Tab/Ribbon are tailored to each application. Well sue a bit with this in a little while. Groups In the image below, the arrows point to a new topic Groups. Clipboard Editing Font split up appearances Clipboard Group The Tab/Ribbon bar images (in this tutorial) are hard to read, so weve placed arrows in the image above) tor the Groups in the Word Home Tab/Ribbon.Again, the Tabs/ Ribbons, and Groups,will vary depending on the application youre using. Lets look a bit at the Groups in Word. The first Group on the Word Home Tab is Clipboard. To open a Group you move your cursor over the little down pointing arrow in the lower right corner of a group. This arrow is enlarged in the image below. When yo u click this arrow the image on the right appears. Notice that the Clipboard appears on the left side of your screen and shows any text or images youVe copied. To close this group, click the X in the upper right corner of the Group.Notice, in the Font Group area (above), you have the most used Font features. However, if you desire all of the type features, Just click the Open Group arrow to the right of Font. An gray-haired friend the Font menu screen appears (when you click the Open Group arrow). Youll see this a lot as your learn more almost 2007 Office. Many of the tried and true menu screens will appear in logical places. Select Text Mini Toolbar When youre working with text and fonts a really ingenious new thing occurs as you highlight text a Select Text Mini Toolbar appearsIn the image on the right we highlighted Highlight Text. When we paused the cursor over the highlight, a shadow like toolbar appeared. When we move our cursor over the toolbar, it is ready for us to use it to alter our text. This is really handy as many ot text tormatting teatures are in the try this, be patient, it sometimes takes a few tries. ini oo ar. The tlrst time you Notice in the Paragraph Group area (left) you again have the most used Paragraph features.However, if you desire all of the paragraph features, Just click the Open Group arrow to the right of Paragraph. The Paragraph menu screen appears when you click the Open Group arrow to the right of the Paragraph Group. You should now have a feel for how the Tabs/ Ribbons and Groups work to disturbher to assist you. course on The next Group on the Word Home Tab/Ribbon is Styles. If you go back to Page 6 and glance at the Word, PowerPoint and Excel Home Tabs, youll see that the right portion of a Tab is where the application selections change to fit the application.In Word you can now select a style from the Styles Group (image below). If you click the More arrow in the lower right corner of the Styles group, you will see additional choices. When you click the More arrow you will see an image similar to the one below. Notice that we are in Times New Roman Normal. On the next page well show you one of the really, really neat new features in 2007 Office. Fasten your seatbelts Were going to highlight this paragraph (when we have finished typing it). Then were going to open the Styles Group.When the Group is open well move our cursor over the choices, and as we do, youll see, in the images below, that the entire paragraph changes to that Style We selected Sty Look le. And another Other Tabs/Ribbons the text now appears When you move to the other Tabs/Ribbons, youll notice that they contain their own Groups associated with that Tab. The Insert Tab/Ribbon (below) has logical things that you would insert into a document Shapes, Pages, Tables, Illustrations, Links, Headers/Footers, Text and Symbols.Again, depending on your choices, many selections allow you to preview what youVe highlighted similar to the two illustrations above. It is suggested that you click the Tabs/Ribbons in each application youll be using to get a feel for them. The Page Layout Tab/Ribbon also has logical selections Themes, Page Setup, Page Background, Paragraph and Arrange. The References Tab/Ribbon will really come in handy for those print long documents, articles or books Table of Contents, Footnotes, Citations & Bibliography, Captions, Index, and Table of Authorities.The Mailings Tab/Ribbon lets you work with Envelops, Labels, Mail Merge, Fields and Preview. It includes Create, Start Mail Merge, Write and Insert Fields, Preview Results and Finish. The Review Tab/Ribbon has the Proofing Tools, Comments, Tracking, Changes, Compare and Protect features. The View Tab Ribbon allows you to change the document Views, do now ide, Zoom and arrange your Windows. This gives you a feel for how the Tabs/Ribbons work in Word 2007. Again, it would be prudent to look at the other 2007 Office applications you will be using to get a similar sense for these new features.