Introduction to Microsoft Word 97

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Table of Contents

  Screen Layout

• Title Bar
• Menu
• Toolbars
• Standard Toolbar
• Format Toolbar
• Ruler Bar
• Scroll Bar
• Status Bar
• Full Screen Edit

Using Help

• Microsoft Word Help
• Contents and Index
• What’s This?
• Microsoft on the Web
• WordPerfect Help

Word Processing Basics

• Creating a Document
• Insertion Point Movement
• Inserting Today’s Date
• Saving the Document
  • File, Save
  • File, Save As
• Printing a Document
• Print to a File
• Centering Text
• Add Title to Memo
• Selecting Text
  • Selecting a Word
  • Selecting Entire Line
  • Selecting Entire Sentence
  • Selecting Entire Paragraph
  • Selecting Entire Document
  • Selecting Rectangular Areas
  • Selecting with the Keyboard
• Deleting Text
• Undo Command
• Redo Command
• Replacing Text
• Using Tabs
  • Setting Tabs with Ruler Bar
  • Setting Tabs with Tabs Dialog Box
• Changing the Fonts
  • Changing Font and Font Size with Keyboard Commands
  • Changing Text Formatting with Keyboard Commands
• Cut, Copy and Paste

Specific Tools

• Creating a New Document
• Using Templates
• Deleting Text and Graphics
• Changing the Capitalization of Text
• Spelling and Grammar Checker
• Grammar Checker
• Inserting Text with AutoCorrect
• Inserting Text with AutoText
• Using the Thesaurus

Establishing the Look of a Page

• Setting up Document Pages
• Creating Headers and Footers
• Page Numbers in Headers and Footers

Format - Changing the Appearance of Characters, Paragraphs, and Documents

• AutoFormat
• Formatting Characters
• Formatting Paragraphs
• Styles and Style Gallery

Insert

• Symbols
  • Insert symbols or special characters
  • Insert symbols not on the keyboard
  • Insert common typographical characters
  • Create arrows, faces, and other symbols automatically
  • Type international characters
  • Type character codes to create special characters
  • Assign a symbol to a shortcut key
• Files
  • Insert a second document into an open document
  • Insert a Microsoft Excel file as a table
• Objects
  • Insert a MS Excel worksheet or chart into a Word doc
  • Create a linked object from an existing MS Excel Worksheet or Chart
  • Create an embedded object from an existing MS Excel Worksheet or Chart
  • Create a new embedded Microsoft Excel Worksheet Or Chart
• Pictures
  • About Working with Pictures in a Document

Tools, Options

• Changing the Default Settings
• View
• General
• Edit
• Print
• Save
• Spelling & Grammar
• Track Changes
• User Information
• Compatibility
• File Locations

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