The Microsoft Word program is basically a big piece of paper that never runs out. There are many versions of the Microsoft word now. I will be using the Microsoft Office Word 2003 to explain the basic features. The 2003 version has 9 tabs on the top of the screen. They are; File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, Tools, Table, Window, and Help. These are in order in which they should appear at the top of your screen. In the File, you will find many different tabs. They are all pretty self-explanatory. If you have used Word and have saved your pieces, some or all of them will appear at the bottom depending on how many you have saved. These are quick links to your other files. The most helpful things to know about the File tab is that the save, save as, print, and open are there. The save as brings you to a window that shows you a miniature my documents window. Here, you will be able to choose which files you save your work to and what you save it as. Hence, the name Save as. While you type, you want to save your work often. To do this you go to File- save. You do this only if you have already saved the work in save as or it will automatically bring you to the same window you see when you go to Save as. The sort cut to saving your work is Ctrl (control) -S, which stands for save. This will automatically save your work. The Print button will lead you to yet again, another screen. Here you will have to select your printer, which should already be there. If it is not there, then you will have to select Find Printer. Find the printer you are currently using in the house and select it. After that, yo will select how many copies the printer will make and which pages. The default is all pages and 1 copy. To change the page you want to print, you will go to the Page Range section and choose either Current Page or Pages__________. The current page option will print the page you are currently previewing or reading. The Pages_______, you have to specify which pages you want to print. For example: Pages 1-6.
Then you would click print. If you wanted more copies, you would go to the Copies section. Here you would type in how many copies you wanted. For example: Number of copies: 3
Then you would hit print.
The open file will bring up a window that looks identical to the Save as. Here you can select old pieces of work and bring them up into another Word Document. You would select the one you want to open and then double click. A new window should show up at the bottom of your screen. If it doesn't, wait a little while and then try again.
This concludes my lesson with the Microsoft Word Program.
