Essentials

Word 2003 Level 1

Project 2: Working with a Document

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Objectives
Open a document
Save a document with a different name in
a new folder
Scroll and use the Select Browse Object
palette
Insert text
Select, delete, and change text

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Objectives (continued)

Create a table from existing text

Apply a bulleted list
Insert page numbers
Change view modes

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Opening a Document
Open dialog box
Button on Standard Toolbar
Menu File, Open
Keyboard shortcut Ctrl+O
Recently Used Files list
Accessed from File menu
Task pane
Getting Started task pane displays recently used
files. Click More to display Open dialog box.
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Opening a Document
Click to view
list of drives

Click a filename
or folder

Click Open to
retrieve
document

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Scrolling and Using Select Browse
Object
To make changes and corrections quickly
and easily:
Keyboard shortcuts
Vertical and horizontal scroll bars
Go To dialog box
Select Browse Object

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Inserting Text
To switch between Insert mode (the
default) and Overtype mode:
Double click on the OVR indicator on the
status bar, or
Press Insert on the keyboard

OVR indicator

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Selecting, Deleting, and Changing
Text
Basic operations to modify text:
Selecting text
Deleting text
Press Delete to delete selected text
Changing text
Double-click OVR to replace selected text

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Creating a Table from Existing Text

To convert text to a table:

Select the text
Choose Table, Convert, Text to Table
Convert Text to Table dialog box
Can choose settings to specify how Word converts text
into a table

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Applying a Bulleted List
An effective formatting technique
Incorporate bulleted and numbered lists using the
Format/Bullets and Numbering dialog box:
Bulleted list
Displays a special symbol at the beginning of a list of items or
small paragraphs
Can read the text faster than regular paragraphs
Numbered list
Similar to a bulleted list but with numbers

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Inserting Page Numbers
Page Numbers dialog box contains options
for:
Setting the position
Alignment
Format of page
numbers

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Page Number

Page Number

Page number

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Formatting Page Numbers

Specify a page number

format in the Page
Number Format dialog
box

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A Window with a View...
When you select a subject for a photo, you
move the camera to change your view. You
can also change your view within a window to
see what is beyond the current view. This is
done using scrollbars.

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Changing View Modes
Normal View
Shows text and simple formatting
Hides document components such as margin
space and page numbers
Useful for basic document creation and editing
Web Layout View
Shows document as if in a Web browser

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Changing View Modes (continued)
Print Layout View
Shows margin space, page numbers, objects,
headers and footers
Useful for viewing document layout and
spacing, components and their locations
Reading Layout View
Hides all toolbars except Reading Layout and
Reviewing toolbars
Displays text in two-column format
Useful for reading a document
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Changing View Modes (continued)
Outline View
Shows document headings in an indented format
to indicate their hierarchical level
Useful for showing the organization of a document
Full Screen
Maximizes the document view by hiding the title
bar, menu bar, toolbars, and status bar
Useful for viewing more of a document onscreen

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Changing View Modes (continued)

Normal

Outline

Web Layout Reading Layout

Print Layout

Full Screen Alt-V

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Using Zoom

Like a magnifying
glass
Zoom makes text
appear larger
Zoom drop-
Doesnt change the font down arrow
size of the text

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Using the Zoom Dialog Box

Zoom dialog box provides preset options

and a percent option

Zoom dialog box

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Summary
Open an existing document
Folders, files, and the task pane
Can save a document with a different name
in a new folder
Save
Save As
Keyboard Shortcuts, Scrollbars, Select
Browse Object, and Go To Option
Insert mode and Overtype mode

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Summary (continued)
Can easily select, delete, and change text
Can create tables from existing text
Lists
Bulleted list
Numbered list
Page numbers
Easy to insert and format
Various view modes

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