How-Tos in Microsoft Word

 

Alignment Tools:

Don’t ever use the space bar again to put text in the center of your page.

PLEASE!

 

Insert – Picture – Clipart:

Add a flourish to invitations, newsletters, memos…

Resize with black “handles”

Hold shift key to keep proportions

Crop with crop tool and black “handles”

Double click and choose layout to set text wrapping options

 

 

Format – Paragraph formatting:

I primarily use this for setting line spacing.

Alignment and indentations can also be set here as well as on the tool bar and ruler.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Tabs or Format – Tabs:

                        Left                         Center                   Decimal                                        Right

                        Jane                      Marlboro                           8.50                                   Olive

                        Mary                  Dummerston                      17.35                                    Pink

                        Andrea                    Dover                           12.20                             Lavender

                        Teta                        Putney                           17.35                                 Purple

                        Nora                     Marlboro                         12.20                           Periwinkle

 

Format – Columns:

Sometimes you want text to appear in columns.  You may want a list of items to appear in columns or you may wish to make text appear in columns  to give your document the look of a newspaper or newsletter.

 

 

Table – Insert Tables:

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

 

 

 

 

 

 

Insert - Sections:

 

Section breaks are used in documents containing varied layouts:

1)      From 1 column to 2

2)      Portrait and Landscape pages in same document

3)      Different headers/footers from one page to the next

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tools – Options

 

This is where you get control over Word.  In here you will find ways to turn-off or modify many of those things the computer tries to do for you – much to your frustrations.

You can turn-off or change

  • Whether typing replaces selection
  • Text can be moved by drag and drop
  • Where documents are saved to and retrieved from
  • Red lines under “spelling errors”
  • Green lines under “incorrect grammar”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A few tricks for using numbers and bullets:

Shift key

Number and bullet buttons to turn on and off

Indent and Outdent buttons

Format bullets and numbering

Draw tools

Create a text object that you can move anywhere
 
 


Make boxes around your text

Move a picture or a box behind your text

Word Art 

 

 

 


 

 

Insert – Hyperlink

Turn a word or phrase in one document into a button that will open another document.  Click on the following words to open a document called: Guide to my computer.