Introduction

to
MS-WORD

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 Content
• INTRODUCTION
• HISTORY OF MS-WORD
• FEATURES OF MS-WORD
• CREATE,SAVE AND EDIT A DOCUMENT
• FONTS AND POINT SIZE
• FORMATTING DOCUMENTS
• USE OF TEMPLATES AND WIZARD
• SHORTCUT KEYS
• FORMATTING TOOLBARS
• CLIP ART
• TABLES
• MAIL MERGE
• MACROS
• OLE
• SAVING DOCUMENTS

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 Introduction
Computers were first developed to perform arithmetic
operation such as adding and subtracting- in other word, to
process numbers.
However it soon became apparent that computers could also be
very useful in manipulating text to produce document such as
memos, notes ,letters, papers and written text
Nowadays word processing has become one of the principal
applications used on personal computers.
MS-WORD is the most popular word processer. It has been
developed by the MICROSOFT

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 History
Before the development of personal computers and word processing
software, document were produced on typewriters. Whenever we type
something wrong in the type writer then we have to type again to
correct it. But word processors has make it possible to edit any error
without typing the whole document again.
Early word processor consist of two parts an-:Editor and Formatter
Editor-: use to create or edit document.
Formatter-: use to format or print the document.
Today, most word processors combined the editor and formatter in
such a way that the document is WYSIWYG i.e. what you see is
what you get

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 Features
 Word Wrap-:
This function allow you to type continuously without thinking about
where the line will end and the text one begins. But in typewriters
which requires to press a “return” bar or key to advance beginning of
a new line.
 Text Alignment-:
You can align text in various ways as you type. You can indent the first
line of the paragraph. You can create “hanging indent”, where all line
of a paragraph are indented except the first line.
 Inserting Text-:
You can also insert characters. On a typewriter, if you omitted a
word, you have to erase all the letters on that line but on word
Processors you can insert the omitted word without erasing all the
line.

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 Deleting and Saving Text-:
Word processors also allow you to make corrections by deleting
characters, words, or larger block of text which you decide to delete.
You can also save the document which you have made by F12 command
Or as shown in the given image-:

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 Spell Check-:
A word processor can even check your spellings in version you have to
activate spell checker by initiating specific command. But in word it
occurs automatically as you type.

 Tables-:
With a word processor you can create an attractive table customize to
your needs. You can adjust the size, number of rows and column etc. As
shown in the given picture-:

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Creating, Saving and Editing a
document
Creating a document-:
• Click the New button on
the standard toolbar. The
alternative way to open a
new file is to select File,
New from the menu bar
• The default font and point
size is set to Times new
roman 10 Point.

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 Saving a Document-:
• Click the Save button on
the toolbar. Alternatively,
select File, Save from the
menu bar as shown in the
image.
• Crtl+S is a shortcut key for
saving a document.
• Also word has default option
of auto-save every 10
minutes which can be
configured as desired.

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 Font and Point Size
How appealing your document looks and how easy it is to read will
depend partly on the typeface, or font you use.
Font size is commonly measured in points, with one point equal to 1/72
of an inch. 8 points is about the smallest size that is legible, and
you should definitely not use a point size of more than 12 for
writing up your project. In word you can change the font of
selected text or complete document.

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 Formatting documents
 Format a document automatically-:
On the tool menu, click Autocorrect options, and then click the
Auto format as you type option. Select or clear the options you
want. You can undo formatting or turn options on or off by clicking
An option on the Autocorrect option button. To choose which types
of automatic changes Microsoft Word makes, click Options select or
clear the option you want and then click ok.
To review and accept or reject each change, click AutoFormat now.

 Spell-checking-:
Select spelling and grammar under menu tools to start spell checker.
As an alternative you can click on the spell checker button on the
standard toolbar. If you have misspelt any word then it will
underline
that word in by red colour. There are mainly two languages that are
English British Or English(U.S.).

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 Selecting text-:

There are four ways of selecting the text. These are as follows-:
• Dragging the mouse-:
You can drag the mouse across all the text that you want to select. To
select vertically, hold down ALT and drag down and across the text you
want to select. This is useful for editing data in tabular form
• Selecting with the mouse-:
It’s much quicker to click than drag. Try these shortcuts:
 Double click a word to select it.
 Triple click to select the paragraph.
 To select several paragraph, place the cursor at the beginning of
the text to be select, press and hold down the Shift key and click at
the point where you want to end the selection.

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 •Using the selection bar-:
The selection bar is the left hand margin of the document, next to
the ruler. When you move the cursor into this area, it changes to a
right pointing arrow head.
 Click once to select the current line.
 Click twice to select the current paragraph.
 Click three times to select the whole document.
 To deselect the document, click in the right hand margin.

• Using the Keyboard-:

 To select a single character next to the cursor use Shift and the
Right and Left arrow key.
 To select a line at a time, press Shift and the Down arrow Key or
the Up arrow Key to select upwards.
 Ctrl-A to select the whole document.

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Cutting, Copying, Pasting and Undoing

The next three buttons are used for cutting, copying and pasting
text. The keyboard shortcuts are Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V.
• To cut a text follow the given procedure-:
 Click the CUT tool.
 Click an insertion point on a new line at the end of the document.
 Press the Paste tool.
 Now undo this change by pressing the Undo tool twice (once for
the paste and once for cut.)

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 Templates and Wizards
A TEMPLATE is a preformatted document to which you add text of
Your own. The letter head that a company or college uses, or a blank
invoice form, are examples of templates.
When you create new word document, you are asked on which
template you want to base your document. At that point, you are
offered the default choice blank document and you probably just click
OK.

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Creating a template
 Select file, New, select an existing template, edit and save it. To
Edit an existing template you must open it as a template. Make the
changes you want then save it as a template (with .dot extension).
 Select file, new, select the normal template, open a new
document and add all the boilerplate text and graphics that you want
to appear in the template.
 A variation of the second method is to open by existing document,
delete anything that you do not want to appear in the template,
and save it with a. dot extension.

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 •Inserting a date field
 Press Enter about four times, and then select Insert, Date and
Time. Select a suitable format for the date.
 If you check update automatically then every time the document is
The document is opened, the date will be automatically updated to
today’s date.

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 Shortcuts keys
•Repeat your last action F4 or Ctrl+Y
•Find and replace Ctrl+F
•Go to page, section, line, etc Ctrl+G
•Delete a word
Crtl+Backspace
•Change case Shift+F3
•Bold Ctrl+B
•Italicize Ctrl+I
•Go to the beginning of document Ctrl+Home
•Go to end of the document Ctrl+End
•Select to the beginning of the document Ctrl+Shift+Home
•Select to the end of the document Ctrl+Shift+End
•Open the thesaurus Shift+F7
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• Insert a hyperlink Ctrl+K
• Select all Ctrl+A
• Copy Ctrl+C
• Paste Ctrl+V
• Undo Ctrl+Z
• Save Ctrl+S
• Print Ctrl+P
• Open Ctrl+O

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 Formatting toolbars
 Open any saved document file
 Make sure all the text is on the same page and in the default
normal style. If it is not, select all the text, click the arrow style
box to display the drop-down list of styles and select normal.

Underline Right

Style box Font box Bold Centre

Italics Justify
Size box

Left

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Creating your own styles-:

The default normal style is times new roman ,10 point, left
justified.
There are several ways of creating style the simplest way is to change
part of the text to the way you want it to look, and then give it a
style name.
 Select the first paragraph by double-clicking in the left margin.
Use the button on the formatting toolbar to change it to Ariel, 11
point, justified.
 It’s a good idea to leave a little space between paragraph. With
the paragraph still highlighted, click the right mouse button to
bring up the short-cut menu.

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 Select paragraph from the short-cut menu. This brings up
another dialog box as shown in the figure-:

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 Click Line and Page break tab in the previous shown image.

 Then Select 6 pt in the spacing after box and click ok.

 Click on normal in the style box and overtype it with the new
name, story text. Press enter.

 Select the rest of the story change it to story text style by

selecting this style from the style box.

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Drop caps-:
 To turn the first character of the story (the B of Before) into a
drop cap, select it and then from the menu select drop cap. A
dialogbox appears :

 Select dropped, two line rather than and press ok.

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Small caps-:
o Select the word “for” at the start of the second paragraph of the
story.
o Click the right mouse button to bring up the short-cut menu.
o Select Font, and check small caps in the next dialogbox. Click Ok.

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 When you save any document for the first time word suggests a
file name for you in the “file name” textbox that corresponding to
the first heading or sentence in your document (Up to 255
character). if you like that name , simply click the save button to
save the file in the default (or last used) folder on the computer
or you can change the name by entering you choice name in the
“file name” text box.

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 Clip art
Clip art is a Microsoft built in art gallery that contain hundreds of
professionally –created images when the clip art option is selected,
a dialog window will appear.

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 Tables
Tables are used to display data and there are several ways to build
them in word. Begin by placing the cursor where you want table to
appear in the document and choose one of the following methods.
 Insert a table :there are two ways to add a table to the
document using the insert feature.
 click the insert table button on the standard toolbar. Drag the
mouse along the grid, highlighting the number of rows and columns for
the table.

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Select table insert table from the menu bar. Select the
number and column for the table and click OK.

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 Draw the table
A TABLE CAN ALSO be drawn onto the document
 Draw the table by selecting table draw table from the menu
bar. The cursor is now the image of a pencil and the tables and
borders toolbar has appeared.

 Draw the cell of the table with the mouse. If you make make a
mistake click the eraser button and drag the mouse over the area
to be deleted.
 To draw more cells, click on the Draw Table button

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 Mail merge
Mail merge is the term used for merging the list of names and
Addresses with a standard letter to create personalize letter it’s a
very useful technique whenever you want to send the same letter to
several people.

Creating a mail merge form letter

The first in generating a mail merge document is to identify the main
document. The “main document“ is the document that contain text,
graphics merged fields into which the data from the related fields
located in the data source will me merged.

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Step-1 Main document-:
 Click form letter to merge to a letter
 If you are creating a new main document then click on the new
main document button in the Ms- word message box.
Step-2 Data source-:
 Click the get data button and select the create data source option
 The create data source dialog box is open commonly used field
name are listed. E.g. Remove, add or move the position of any field
in the box.
 The “save as “ dialog box will be open give the “data source” a “new
file name” and click ok.
Step-3 Merge-:
 Click the mail merge help button on the mail merge toolbar shown.
 Click the merge button in step #3 to open the merge dialog box.
 In merge dialog box, the “merge to” text box display “new
document”
 After clicking on “merge”, a new document with the generic name
“form letters” for form letter will be created.

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 MACROS
Macro is a single instruction that performs several different
commands in a sequence determined by the user, and is triggered
when you run it.
You create a macro by recording the series of action or by writing the
instruction in the special format. Commands use to record, run, and
modify macros are located on the tool menu.
• Planning a macro-:
This step is about giving macro a proper name and description and
deciding how it will execute the commands you want to record.
2) Recording the macro-:
To record a macro, you simply type the keystrokes and select the
Commands you want the macro to execute.
To begin recording, select the record command on the macro
submenu on the tools menu, or double click Rec indicator.

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3) Recording a macro-:
After you record a macro, you must test it to make sure that the
actions you expect to see happen actually occur.
Running a Macro-:

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 Object Link and Embedding (OLE)
You can create a link object or embedded object from any program
that supports linked object and embedded objects.

Embedded object linked object source file-:

 Create a new embedded object.
 Click in the document where you want to place the object.
 On the insert menu, click object, and then create the new tab.
 In the object type box, click the type of object you want to
create.
 Only programs that are installed on your computer and that
supports linked objects and embedded object appear in the object
type box.
 To display the embedded object as an icon- for ex, if others are
going to view the document online- select the display as icon check
box.

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 Inserting information by creating a linked
object or an embedded object
You can insert objects in MS-WORD document to include information
created in Microsoft office programs or in any program that
supports linked objects and embedded objects.
 Linked objects: when an object is linked, information is updated
only if the source is modified. Linked data is stored in the source
file.
 Embedded objects: when an object is embedded, information in
the destination file doesn't change if you modify the source file.
 Edit and update linked objects: after you create a linked object or
embedded object in your document, you can make changes to the
object. To edit a linked object in your document, use the links
command on the edit menu. By default linked objects are set for
automatic updating.

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Saving a documents-:
It is a good idea to save document frequently particularly before
printing it, to safeguard against losing your work.
Saving a document for the first time: To save a document, click the
Save button on the standard toolbar. The first time you save a
document, a dialogbox, a dialogbox will appear as shown in
Figure-:

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