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Fundamentals of Word

Environment

Screenshot of a Microsoft Word document. Across the top there is a dark gray ribbon, a lighter gray ribbon, and a ruler ribbon. Below the ribbons, there is a white vertical rectangle with black text on it. The document has two and a half paragraphs on it. In the top left of the screenshot, there is text that says Quick Access Toolbar with a blue line that points to the disk icon, left pointing curved arrow, and grayed out curved right arrow. To the right of that, there is text that says Title Bar. That points to the name of the document, which is Document1 -Word. To the right of that, there is text that says Minimize Window. There is a line that points to a thin horizontal line in the top right of the screen. To the right of that there is text that says Close and points to the white "x" icon in the top right of the screen. On the left side of the image, there is text that says Ribbon and it points to the light gray ribbon that has the clipboard, font, paragraph, and styles options. In the top left of the white rectangle there are two blue lines pointing to the vertical and horizontal ruler ribbons. There is text that says Rulers. In the bottom right, there is text that says Views that points to three square icons in the bottom right. To the right of that, there is text that says Zoom and it points to a white slider bar in the bottom right of the image.

Create a Blank Document

Click on the File tab, select New, and click Blank document; or press Ctrl + N

Open a Document

Click on the File tab and select Open, or press Ctrl + O. Select a location with a file you want, then select a file and click Open.

Save a Document

Click the Save button on the Quick Access Toolbar, or press Ctrl + S. Choose a location where you want to save the file. Give the file a name, then click Save.

Change Document Views

Click the View tab and select a view, or click one of the View buttons at the bottom of the window.

Reading View, Print Layout View, and Web Layout View

Screenshot of Word options. There is text that reads Read Mode with an icon of an open book with lines and a square with mountains and a sun on it. To the right of that, there is a white rectangle icon with lines on it. The text with it says Print Layout. To the right of that is a white rectangle document icon with horizontal lines and a smaller rectangular icon. There is also a blue circle with lines across it. The text with it says Web Layout. Below all of this is text that says Views.

Print

Click on the File tab, select Print, specify print settings, and click Print.

Edit Text

Select the text you want to replace and type new text.

Cut, Copy and Paste

Select the text you want to cut or copy and click the Cut or Copy button from the Home tab. Click where you want to paste the text, and click the Paste button.

Undo

Click on the Undo button from the Quick Access Toolbar.

Redo or Repeat

Click on the Redo button on the Quick Access Toolbar. The button turns to Repeat once everything has been re-done.

Paste Preview

Copy the text, image, or object to be pasted, right-click the location area in the document and within the Paste Options menu hover mouse over an icon to preview pasted text (image, object) will look like within your document.

Screenshot of the text formatting options in Word. There are two separate menus. The first has two rows. The first row has a dropdown field with Calibri in it; a dropdown field with 11 in it; a "A" with a blue triangle pointing up, a smaller "A" with a blue triangle pointing down; a blue arrow pointing left with black lines; and a blue arrow pointing right with black lines. The next row has a "B" icon; a slanted "I" icon, a "U" with a line underneath it, an icon with lines forming what appears to be a paragraph, an icon with "ab" and a highlighter with yellow ink and a triangle pointing down; a "A" with a red line underneath it with a blue triangle pointing down; and a paint brush with a blue handle and yellow bristles. The second menu has icons down the left side and text down the right. The first icon is a grayed out pair of scissors with text that says Cut. Below that is a grayed out icon of two overlapping white rectangular documents with text that says Copy. Below that is a yellow clipboard icon with a white square on it. To the right of that there is a red outline of a circle around text that reads Paste Options and three icons. The first icon is a clipboard with blue and red lines and a painbrush with blue ink on it, a yellow clipboard with a blue arrow on it, and a yellow clipboard with a black "A" on it. Below that there is a blue "A" with text that reads Font...

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