WORD PROCESSING
3. FEATURES OF MICROSOFT WORD
FEATURES OF MICROSOFT WORD
Some of the features are Opening a Document, Editing a Document, Formatting a Document, Inserting a Document, Saving a Document, Retrieving an existing Document, The office button, Menu Bar, Title Bar, Minimize button ,Maximize button, Closing a Document etc.
FEATURES OF MICROSOFT OFFICE
⮚ The office Button- It’s located in the upper left corner of MS word. Whenever you click on the button, you will see the basic command available on the file menu, open, save and print etc
⮚ Menu Bar- This contains the Home page (edit) insert, page layout, reference, mailing, review, view.
⮚ Title Bar – It gives information about the name of the package as well as the name of the document you are working on.
⮚ Minimize Button- It’s used to hide current document/ work.
⮚ Maximize Button- The button give command to a document to restore previously minimize document or to enlarge window below.
⮚ Close Button- Its use to close document.
⮚ The Horizontal Ruler- This enable a user scale a document horizontally
⮚ The vertical Ruler- This enable a user document vertically
⮚ Status Bar- contains information about a document, examples are : The page currently being viewed by the user, number of words in a document
⮚ Creating a New Document/ opening of New Document
Anytime you load Microsoft word, a new document is opened by default. To open a new document
● Click on the office button
● Select new from displayed options
● Select blank document from the dialog box
● Click on create button
NOTE- A blinking cursor will appear in the text area called the insertion point, then follow the cursor by first deleting the initial text before you enter the text or the name you want to give the new document.
⮚ Opening of Existing Document
● Click on the office button
● Select open from the displayed options
● Select the drive or directory where the document is located
● Select the document from the dialog box
● Click open button
⮚ Editing a Document
The editing features in MS word are
1. Copy, cut and paste
2. Format painter
3. Thesaurus
4. Finding and replace
5. Go to
6. Spelling & Grammar
7. Word count