Word Tutorial
Word Tutorial
Microsoft Office Word 2010 allows you to create and edit personal and business
documents, such as letters, reports, invoices, emails and books.
By default, documents saved in Word 2010 are saved with the .docx extension.
Microsoft Word can be used for the following purposes:
• To store and reuse readymade content and formatted elements such as cover
pages and sidebars.
Audience
This tutorial has been designed for computer users who are willing to learn Microsoft
Word in simple steps and they do not have much knowledge about computer usage and
Microsoft applications. This tutorial will give you enough understanding on MS Word from
where you can take yourself to higher levels of expertise.
Prerequisites
Before you begin with this tutorial, we assume you have a basic understanding of
Computer peripherals like mouse, keyboard, monitor, screen, etc. and their basic
operations.
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Word 2010 ─ Getting Started Word 2010
MS Word Basics
In this chapter, we will discuss how to get started with Word 2010. We will understand
how to start a Word 2010 application in simple steps. Assuming you have Microsoft
Office 2010 installed in your PC, to start the Word application, follow these steps:
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Step 2: Click the All Programs option from the menu.
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Step 3: Search for Microsoft Office from the submenu and click it.
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Step 4: Search for Microsoft Word 2010 from the submenu and click it.
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This will launch the Microsoft Word 2010 application and you will see the following
window.
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Word 2010 ─ Explore Window Word 2010
In this chapter, we will understand how to explore Window in Word 2010. Following is
the basic window which you get when you start the Word application. Let us understand
the various important parts of this window.
File Tab
The File tab replaces the Office button from Word 2007. You can click it to check the
Backstage view. This is where you come when you need to open or save files, create
new documents, print a document, and do other file-related operations.
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Quick Access Toolbar
This you will find just above the File tab. This is a convenient resting place for the
mostfrequently used commands in Word. You can customize this toolbar based on your
comfort.
Ribbon
• Tabs: These appear across the top of the Ribbon and contain groups of related
commands. Home, Insert, Page Layout are examples of ribbon tabs.
• Groups: They organize related commands; each group name appears below the
group on the Ribbon. For example, group of commands related to fonts or group
of commands related to alignment, etc.
Title bar
This lies in the middle and at the top of the window. Title bar shows the program and
document titles.
Rulers
Word has two rulers - a horizontal ruler and a vertical ruler. The horizontal ruler appears
just beneath the Ribbon and is used to set margins and tab stops. The vertical ruler
appears on the left edge of the Word window and is used to gauge the vertical position
of elements on the page.
Help
The Help Icon can be used to get word related help anytime you like. This provides nice
tutorial on various subjects related to word.
Zoom Control
Zoom control lets you zoom in for a closer look at your text. The zoom control consists of
a slider that you can slide left or right to zoom in or out; you can click the + buttons to
increase or decrease the zoom factor.
View Buttons
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Word 2010 ─ Backstage View Word 2010
The group of five buttons located to the left of the Zoom control, near the bottom of the
screen, lets you switch through the Word's various document views.
• Print Layout view: This displays pages exactly as they will appear when printed.
Full Screen Reading view: This gives a full screen view of the
document.
• Web Layout view: This shows how a document appears when viewed by a Web
browser, such as Internet Explorer.
• Outline view: This lets you work with outlines established using Word’s standard
heading styles.
• Draft view: This formats text as it appears on the printed page with a few
exceptions. For example, headers and footers aren't shown. Most people prefer
this mode.
Document Area
This is the area where you type. The flashing vertical bar is called the insertion point and
it represents the location where text will appear when you type.
Status Bar
This displays the document information as well as the insertion point location. From left
to right, this bar contains the total number of pages and words in the document,
language, etc.
You can configure the status bar by right-clicking anywhere on it and by selecting or
deselecting options from the provided list.
In this chapter, we will discuss the Backstage View in Word 2010. The Backstage view
was introduced in Word 2010. This acts as the central place for managing your
documents. The backstage view helps in creating new documents, saving and opening
documents, printing and sharing documents, and so on.
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Getting to the Backstage View is easy: Just click the File tab, located in the upper-left
corner of the Word Ribbon. If you already do not have any opened document, then you
will see a window listing down all the recently opened documents as follows:
If you already have an opened document, then it will display a window showing detail
about the opened document as shown below. Backstage view shows three columns when
you select most of the available options in the first column.
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The first column of the backstage view will have following options:
Option Description
Save
If an existing document is opened, it will be saved as is, otherwise it will
display a dialogue box asking for the document name.
Save As A dialogue box will be displayed asking for document name and document
type, by default it will save in word 2010 format with extension .docx.
Recent This option lists down all the recently opened documents
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Save & This option will save an open document and will display options to send the
Send document using email, etc.
Help This option is used to get the required help about Word 2010.
Options This option is used to set various option related to Word 2010.
Document Information
When you click the Info option available in the first column, it displays the following
information in the second column of the backstage view:
• Permissions: You can use this option to protect your word document. You can
set a password so that nobody can open your document, or you can lock the
document so that nobody can edit your document.
• Prepare for Sharing: This section highlights important information you should
know about your document before you send it to others, such as a record of the
edits you made as you developed the document.
• Versions: If the document has been saved several times, you may be able to
access the previous versions of it from this section.
Document Properties
When you click the Info option available in the first column, it displays various
properties in the third column of the backstage view. These properties include the
document size, the number of pages in the document, the total number of words in the
document, the name of the author etc.
You can also edit various properties by clicking on the property value and if the property
is editable, then it will display a text box where you can add your text like title, tags,
comments, Author.
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It is simple to exit from the Backstage View. Either click on the File tab or press the Esc
button on the keyboard to go back to the working mode of Word.
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Word 2010 ─ Entering Text Word 2010
In this chapter, let us discuss how to enter text with Microsoft Word 2010. Let us see
how easy it is to enter text in a Word document. We assume you know that when you
start Word, it displays a new document by default as shown below:
Document area is the area where you type your text. The flashing vertical bar is called
the insertion point and it represents the location where the text will appear when you
type. keep the cursor at the text insertion point and start typing the text. We typed only
two words "Hello Word" as shown below. The text appears to the left of the insertion
point as you type:
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Word 2010 ─ Move Around Word 2010
The following are the two important points that will help you while typing:
• You do not need to press Enter to start a new line. As the insertion point reaches
the end of the line, Word automatically starts a new one. You will need to press
Enter, to add a new paragraph.
• When you want to add more than one space between words, use the Tab key
instead of the spacebar. This way you can properly align text by using the
proportional fonts.
In this chapter, we will discuss how to move around in Word 2010. Word provides a
number of ways to move around a document using the mouse and the keyboard.
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To begin with, let us create some sample text. To create a sample text, there is a short
cut available. Open a new document and type =rand() and press Enter. Word will create
the following content for you:
You can easily move the insertion point by clicking in your text anywhere on the screen.
There may be instances when a document is big and you cannot see a place where you
want to move. Here, you will have to use the scroll bars, as shown in the following
screenshot:
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You can scroll through your document by rolling your mouse wheel, which is equivalent
to clicking the up-arrow or down-arrow buttons in the scroll bar.
As shown in the above screenshot, there are two scroll bars: one for moving vertically
within the document, and one for moving horizontally. Using the vertical scroll bar, you
may:
• Move one next page, using the next page button (footnote).
• Move one previous page, using the previous page button (footnote).
• Use the Browse Object button to move through the document, going from one
chosen object to the next.
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The following keyboard commands, used for moving around your document, also move
the insertion point:
Up one line
You can move word by word or paragraph by paragraph. You would have to hold down
the Ctrl key while pressing an arrow key, which moves the insertion point as described
here:
Ctrl +
To the previous word
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Press the F5 key to use the Go To command. This will display a dialogue box where you
will have various options to reach to a particular page.
Normally, we use the page number, the line number or the section number to go directly
to a particular page and finally press the Go To button.
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Once you are done with typing in your new Word document, it is time to save your
document to avoid losing work you have done on a Word document. Following are the
steps to save an edited Word document:
Step 1: Click the File tab and select the Save As option.
Step 2: Select a folder where you will like to save the document, Enter the file name
which you want to give to your document and Select the Save As option, by default it is
the .docx format.
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Step 3: Finally, click on the Save button and your document will be saved with the
entered name in the selected folder.
There may be an instance when you open an existing document and edit it partially or
completely, or an instance where you may like to save the changes in between editing of
the document. If you want to save this document with the same name, then you can use
either of the following simple options:
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• Just press the Ctrl + S keys to save the changes.
• Optionally you can click on the floppy icon available at the top left corner and just
above the File tab. This option will also help you save the changes.
• You can also use the third method to save the changes, which is the Save option
available just above the Save As option as shown in the above screenshot.
If your document is new and it was never saved so far, then with either of the three
options, Word will display a dialogue box to let you select a folder, and enter the
document name as explained in case of saving new document.
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Word 2010 ─ Opening a Document Word 2010
A new, blank document always opens when you start Microsoft Word. Suppose you want
to start another new document while you are working on another document, or you
closed an already opened document and want to start a new document. Here are the
steps to open a new document:
Step 1: Click the File tab and select the New option.
Step 2: When you select the New option from the first column, it will display a list of
templates in the second column. Double-click on the Blank document; this is the first
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option in the template list. We will discuss the other templates available in the list in the
following chapters.
You should have your blank document as shown below. The document is now ready for
you to start typing your text.
You can use a shortcut to open a blank document anytime. Try using the Ctrl + N keys
and you will see a new blank document similar to the one in the above screenshot.
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There may be a situation when you open an existing document and edit it partially or
completely. Follow the steps given below to open an existing document:
Step 1: Click the File tab and select the Open option.
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Step 2: This will display the following file Open dialog box. This lets you navigate
through different folders and files, and also lets you select a file which you want to open.
Step 3: Finally, locate and select a file which you want to open and click the small
triangle available on the Open button to open the file. You will have different options to
open the file, but simply use the Open option.
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This will open your selected file. You can use the Open Read-Only option if you are
willing just to read the file and you have no intention to modify, i.e., edit the file. Other
options can be used for advanced usage.
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