Below are the major parts of the Word screen.
All Word commands can be accessed from here. Word has many toolbars with icons to make tasks easier. Tasks or commands are grouped by what they do.
To view all options in each menu, you must click the double arrows at the bottom of the menu.
You can also hold the mouse at the bottom of the menu for a few seconds and the rest of the menu options will come down.
Helpful Hint: Word will change the order of commands on a menu, and put the commands you use most on top. Notice some menu items are "grayed out." When you see this it means those commands cannot be used at the present time.
Another Helpful Hint: Whenever you want to do something in Word, try "Right-clicking." When you do this, a list of menu options with all the commands you can do at that moment will appear. I always tell my students, "When in doubt, right-click."
Right-clicking is always an option, although for the sake of simplicity, it will not be mentioned in this tutorial again.
Word has many toolbars with icons to make tasks easier. Again, tasks or commands are grouped by what they do. The two toolbars you will use most often are the Standard and Formatting toolbars. These will be discussed below. How to use each of these commands will be discussed in detail later in this tutorial.
This toolbar holds the major commands you need to use Microsoft Word.
1- Click this button to create a new document.
2- Click this button to open a previously created document.
3- Click this button to save your document.
4- Click this button to email your document.
5- Click this button to print your document.
6- Click this button to preview what your document will look like
7- Click this button to spell-check your document.
8- Click this button to "cut" text and images.
9- Click this button to "copy" text and images.
10- Click this button to "paste" text and images.
11- Click this button to undo the last thing you did.
12- Click this button to insert a table into your document.
13- Click this button to make your document larger or smaller.
14- Click this button to get help.
This toolbar holds the major commands you need to format and edit your Word document.
1- Click this button to change your font (font= the style of the type).
2- Click this button to change the size of your font.
3- Click these buttons to make your text bold, italic, or underlined.
4- Click these buttons to align your text (left, center, right, justified).
5- Click these buttons to create a bulleted or numbered list.
6- Click these buttons to increase or decrease the indentation of text.
7- Click this button to highlight text.
8- Click this button to change the color of text.
To see all the toolbars select View>Toolbars from the menu bar.
The toolbars that are already displayed on the screen are checked.
Add a toolbar by clicking on the name of the toolbar you would like to access.
