Word
Word
Application Software
Microsoft Word
Word processor is a computer program or software that is designed to help us to create, edit,
format, save and print documents or text files. Microsoft word is a powerful window oriented word
processor that lets you prepare a variety of documents; if necessary you can easily correct errors by
adding or deleting Words, Sentences or Paragraphs or Pages. After you have created and corrected
your text, you print it and store it on storage device.
Parts of Microsoft Word Window
When you start word you see a blank document ready for you to enter text. Before you begin,
however, you need to know about the various parts of the screen.
Insertion point
Title bar: - The program name and the name of current document are displayed here at the right end of
the title bar there are buttons to minimize, Restore, and close the program.
Minimize button: Click this button to temporarily hide word (to shrink it to an icon on the
task bar). You can then click the Microsoft-word button on the task bar at the bottom of your
screen to redisplay word.
Restore/ Maximize: Click this button to enlarge word to full-screen or to shrink button word
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to partial-screen windows.
Home Tab
A. Clipboard Group
Copy (ctrl + C)
Cut (ctrl + X)
Paste (ctrl +V)
Format Painter (ctrl + shift + C, ctrl + shift + V)
B. Font Group
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C. Paragraph Group
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D. Editing
Software
Application software
o Microsoft word
o Microsoft excel
o Microsoft PowerPoint Bullet List
System software
o Operating system
o Language software
1. Application software
a. Microsoft word
b. Microsoft excel Numbering List
c. Microsoft PowerPoint
2. System software
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a. Operating system
b. Language software
1. Application software
1.1. Microsoft word
1.2. Microsoft excel
1.3. Microsoft PowerPoint
Multilevel List
2. System software
2.1. Operating system
2.2. Language software
Insert Tab
A. Pages
Your document will make a great first impression with a stylish cover page
End the current page here and move to the next page
B. Table
Merge cells – used to combine two or more cells in to one big cell.
Steps to merge cells
1. Select cells that you want to merge
2. Right click on selected cell
3. Click on merge cells
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C. Illustrations
Shapes – used to insert ready-made shapes, such as circles, squares, and arrows
Chart – make it easy to spot patterns and trends in your data by inserting a bar, area
and line chart
Design Tab
A. Page background
Page boarder – used to add or change the border around the page
Layout Tab
A. Page setup
Margins – set the margin sizes for the entire document or the current section
Breaks
Exercise
1. Type the following paragraphs, check and correct spelling & grammar errors
2. Apply any font, font color, underline, bold and italic of the following paragraphs
Microsoft Word
Word processor is a computer program or software that is designed to help us to create, edit,
format, save and print documents or text files.
Microsoft word is a powerful window oriented word processor that lets you prepare a variety of
documents; if necessary you can easily correct errors by adding or deleting Words, Sentences or
Paragraphs or Pages. After you have created and corrected your text, you print it and store it on
storage device.
3. Save the above file in document folder by the name of your department _ Group _ Program
(example: Acct_G1_Ext)
4. Write the following and save it. (create table and use bullet, numbering and multilevel list)
5. Draw the figure like this using shapes option and add text.
Process
Input Output
Storage
6. Apply “Microsoft Word Exercise” as header and “Prepared By: your name” as footer
7. Make the word “Microsoft Word” as the watermark of the document.
8. Create table as bellow and shading the first row