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Welcome to Microsoft Word 97. This program is designed to make your word processing needs easy to accomplish. Let’s jump in and see how this is done.

 

Screen Layout

  • Title Bar
    •      		At the very top of the screen is the Title Bar. If the Title Bar is colored, it designates the active window. On the left side of the title bar is the Word Icon. On the right side of the title bar is the minimize button, the maximize or restore button, and the Exit "X".
  • Menu
    •      		The second line is the menu. Use the mouse to click on the option desired, or ALT key plus the underlined character of the option for keyboard access to the menu.
  • Toolbars
    •      		The next three lines are toolbars. Word provides over a dozen different toolbars, although you’ll normally display only two or three at any one time. Microsoft’s "factory settings" display only the Standard and Formatting toolbars. The other toolbars include: Borders, Database, Drawing, Forms, Microsoft, and Word for Windows 2.0.

    You can display any available toolbar by right-clicking on any toolbar displayed on your screen and selecting the toolbar from the drop-down menu that appears.

    Placing the mouse pointer on the icon brings up a word description of what the icon does. The Toolbars provide a quicker access to functions normally found in the menu, maybe buried under several selections.

    You can select or unselect Toolbars by choosing View, Toolbar. or by clicking on the toolbar with the right mouse button and unselecting, or selecting from the list.

  • Standard Toolbar

    •      		The Standard Toolbar is the first one, and includes file menu selections like New, Open, Save, Print, Print Preview, Spelling and Grammar.

    Edit functions include Cut, Copy, Paste and Format Painter. Then Undo and Redo buttons.

    New to Word 97 is Insert Hyperlink and Web Toolbar. Next is Tables & Borders, Insert Table, and Insert MS Excel Worksheet.

    Then Columns, Drawing, and Document Map, Show/Hide Paragraph signs, Zoom Control and Help (Office Assistant).

  • Format Toolbar

    •      		The second toolbar is the Format Toolbar and includes selecting a style, a font, font size, turning on or off Bold, Italics and Underline, the type of alignment (left, center, right, full), setting up numbering, bullets, increase or decrease indents, and borders. Also included are the ability to select a Highlight color and font color.
  • Ruler Bar
    •      		The Ruler Bar allows for quick changes to the Left and Right Margins, as well as Tabs. Clicking on the icon in the far left side of the Ruler Bar will change the type of Tab.
  • Scroll Bars
    •      		The Scroll Bars allow quick movement both Vertically (on the right side of the document window, and Horizontally (at the bottom of the document window). Included on the Vertical scroll bar are the Page Up and Page Down icons. Included on the Horizontal scroll bar are the icons to change to the different ways to view the document: Normal, Page Layout, and Outline Views.
  • Status Bar
    •      		The bottom line of the document window is the Status Bar. The Status Bar will show Page location, cursor location, time of day, etc. It is always present unless you choose the Full Screen view.
  • Full Screen Edit
    •      		BUT, for those wanting a "clean screen" with nothing else showing, select View, and then Full Screen. To change back, click on the icon at the bottom of the screen that says "FULL" or press the ESCape key to return to the normal screen.

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