MS Word Basics
Editing Documents
Formatting Text
Formatting Pages
Working with Tables
Advanced Operations
Word Useful Resources
Selected Reading
- Word - Context Help
- Word - Closing Document
- Word - Opening a Document
- Word - Save Document
- Word - Move Around
- Word - Entering Text
- Word - Backstage View
- Word - Explore Window
- Word - Getting Started
- Word - Home
Editing Documents
- Word - Undo Changes
- Word - Special Symbols
- Word - Zoom In-Out
- Word - Spell Check
- Word - Find & Replace
- Word - Copy & Paste
- Word - Move Text
- Word - Delete Text
- Word - Select Text
- Word - Insert Text
Formatting Text
- Word - Apply Formatting
- Word - Set Tabs
- Word - Borders and Shades
- Word - Set Line Spacing
- Word - Create Bullets
- Word - Indent Paragraphs
- Word - Text Alignments
- Word - Change Text Color
- Word - Change Text Case
- Word - Text Decoration
- Word - Setting Text Fonts
Formatting Pages
- Word - Page Orientation
- Word - Cover Pages
- Word - Insert Blank Page
- Word - Insert Page Breaks
- Word - Add Page Numbers
- Word - Header and Footer
- Word - Adjust Page Margins
Working with Tables
- Word - Borders & Shades
- Word - Add Formula
- Word - Split Cells
- Word - Split a Table
- Word - Merging Cells
- Word - Resize a Table
- Word - Move a Table
- Word - Rows & Columns
- Word - Create a Table
Advanced Operations
- Word - Set Watermark
- Word - Document Security
- Word - Compare Document
- Word - Translate Document
- Word - Email Documents
- Word - Printing Documents
- Word - Preview Documents
- Word - Table of Contents
- Word - Auto Formatting
- Word - Auto Correction
- Word - Use Graphics
- Word - Use Templates
- Word - Quick Styles
Word Useful Resources
Selected Reading
- Who is Who
- Computer Glossary
- HR Interview Questions
- Effective Resume Writing
- Questions and Answers
- UPSC IAS Exams Notes
Word - Explore Window
Explore Window in Word 2010
In this chapter, we will understand how to explore Window in Word 2010. Following is the basic window which you get when you start the Word apppcation. Let us understand the various important parts of this window..
File Tab
The File tab replaces the Office button from Word 2007. You can cpck it to check the Backstage view. This is where you come when you need to open or save files, create new documents, print a document, and do other file-related operations.
Quick Access Toolbar
This you will find just above the File tab. This is a convenient resting place for the mostfrequently used commands in Word. You can customize this toolbar based on your comfort.
Ribbon
Ribbon contains commands organized in three components −
Tabs − These appear across the top of the Ribbon and contain groups of related commands. Home, Insert, Page Layout are examples of ribbon tabs.
Groups − They organize related commands; each group name appears below the group on the Ribbon. For example, group of commands related to fonts or group of commands related to apgnment, etc.
Commands − Commands appear within each group as mentioned above.
Title bar
This pes in the middle and at the top of the window. Title bar shows the program and document titles.
Rulers
Word has two rulers - a horizontal ruler and a vertical ruler. The horizontal ruler appears just beneath the Ribbon and is used to set margins and tab stops. The vertical ruler appears on the left edge of the Word window and is used to gauge the vertical position of elements on the page.
Help
The Help Icon can be used to get word related help anytime you pke. This provides nice tutorial on various subjects related to word.
Zoom Control
Zoom control lets you zoom in for a closer look at your text. The zoom control consists of a spder that you can spde left or right to zoom in or out; you can cpck the + buttons to increase or decrease the zoom factor.
View Buttons
The group of five buttons located to the left of the Zoom control, near the bottom of the screen, lets you switch through the Word s various document views.
Print Layout view − This displays pages exactly as they will appear when printed.
Full Screen Reading view − This gives a full screen view of the document.
Web Layout view − This shows how a document appears when viewed by a Web browser, such as Internet Explorer.
Outpne view − This lets you work with outpnes estabpshed using Word’s standard heading styles.
Draft view − This formats text as it appears on the printed page with a few exceptions. For example, headers and footers aren t shown. Most people prefer this mode.
Document Area
This is the area where you type. The flashing vertical bar is called the insertion point and it represents the location where text will appear when you type.
Status Bar
This displays the document information as well as the insertion point location. From left to right, this bar contains the total number of pages and words in the document, language, etc.
You can configure the status bar by right-cpcking anywhere on it and by selecting or deselecting options from the provided pst.
Dialog Box Launcher
This appears as very small arrow in the lower-right corner of many groups on the Ribbon. Cpcking this button opens a dialog box or task pane that provides more options about the group.
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