Microsoft Word (Office 2010)

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About Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word has been the leading word processing program for more than a decade and is used by millions of people around the world. The new Word 2010 has been updated to make document creation easier than ever. Because Word is best suited for creating documents such as forms, letters, and reports, this tutorial is primarily designed with these documents in mind.

About This Guide

This guide is an introduction to Microsoft Word 2010 for newcomers to the Microsoft Suite as well as for people who are transitioning from older versions without the ribbon interface. Basic functions and methods will be outlined in this guide.  If you are looking for more advanced features of Microsoft Word or would like to further your knowledge, please look at our "External Resources" section.
 

Contents

 
Office Button & Ribbon
  • Menus
  • Shortcut menus

Working With Files
  • Creating & opening documents
  • Saving documents
  • Renaming documents
  • Working on multiple documents
  • Closing a document

Working With Text
  • Typing & inserting text
  • Selecting text
  • Deleting text
  • Cutting & pasting text
  • Editing text
  • The undo button

Paragraph Formatting
  • Paragraph attributes
  • Columns
  • Drop caps

Styles
  • Applying a style
  • Creating a new style
  • Modifying & renaming a style
  • Deleting a style

Lists
  • Bulleted and numbered lists
  • Formatting lists
 
Tables
  • Inserting a table
  • Table templates
  • Formatting a table
  • Moving and resizing a table
  • Table properties
Graphics
  • Inserting images
  • Resizing & editing an image
  • Shapes
  • SmartArt
  • Charts

Proofing
  • Spelling and grammar check
  • AutoCorrect
  • Research tool
  • Thesaurus tool
  • Translate tool

Page Formatting
  • Page margins
  • Page size & orientation
  • Headers & footers
  • Page numbers

Macros
  • Recording a macro
  • Playing a macro

Table of Contents
  • Creating a table of contents
  • Updating a table of contents

Printing
  • Printing a document
  • Print Preview

Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Shortcut references
  • Finding shortcuts
 


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