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Thursday 13 October 2011

About Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is a software application that allows you to perform word processing. You may use Word to create documents such as letters, invitations, term papers, flyers, resumes, novels, and much more! Microsoft Word is the World’s most popular word processer with over 500 million users.

Starting a word document

If you just went to start a document from scratch all you have to do is click Start then Programs and then there should be a program called Microsoft office then you will find Microsoft word.

Headings and Titles

Microsoft word has a lot of different titles personally the best ones called word art, to access these fancy headings all you need to do is go to the toolbar at the top of the page and select insert then you should see the option word art then you can search for the title that is best suited for your document.

How to insert Hyperlinks on Word

Can you also put hyperlinks on your documents that connect from your document to another document, to add a hyperlink you must click insert then hyperlink then select the site you want to be connected from your word document.

Saving your work on Microsoft Word

It’s really simple to save your work on word all you have to do is click file or if you have the new version on Microsoft work there should be a circle in the top left-hand corner then select save as and then your work is saved.

Copy & Paste

If you would like to copy text from the internet and paste it into a word document all you have to do is hold the left button on the mouse and drag the mouse across the text that you want to copy. When you have highlighted the text that you want to copy you click the right button on the mouse and then select copy, if you would like to copy all of the text on the web page you can go to the toolbar at the top of the page and select edit and then select all. After you’ve copied the text open up your word document and click the right button and select paste.

How to insert Tables into Microsoft word

Inserting tables on word is very simple, just clicking insert then you should see an icon saying tables. After you have selected tables you can select how many rows and columns your table is. Tables are a very effective way to present your information to your audience

How to Spell check your work

First thing you need to do to spell check your work is click the review tab on the toolbar. After clicking the review tab you should see the spelling and grammar icon. Select the spelling and grammar. Microsoft word will now flag up any words that are misspelt. If there are any mistakes you have the option to ignore the spelling mistakes or change it, if you would like to change the word or words you have misspelt you should check if the word you were trying to spell is listed in the suggestions box, if it is then all you have to do is click change to replace the word or words in your word document.