Your Microsoft Word Tools are located at the top of your page. This area is called the Information Bar.
Tools help you do a certain job. Holding the cursor over symbol will open a description that will tell you what the symbol does.
You click the Tabs to get to your Tools.
For Home Tools click on the Home tab. This is the tab you will use most of the time. It is for changing fonts, colours, sizes, aligning text, bolding, and underlining.
For Insert Tools click on the Insert tab. This tab is used for inserting pictures, shapes, text boxes, and word art.
For Design Tools click on the Design tab. You can format titles, control spacing and insert borders with this tab.
For Layout Tools click on the Layout tab. This tab is for controlling margins, making columns, and when a picture is inserted, formatting the position and text wrap.
For References Tools click on the References tab. This tab is used for inserting a table of contents and other tools used when writing reference papers.
For Mailing Tools click on the Mailings tab. You can address envelopes, print labels and control a mail merge.
For Review Tools click on the Review tab. You can check spelling and grammar, translate to another language, and look words up in the thesaurus with this tab.
For View Tools click on the View tab. Mostly, this tab is used to change the way you view your document. You can view more than 1 page at a time.
If you click on a certain object that you have inserted into your document, for example a picture or a table, you will see a new special tab appear on the information bar. This tab will only appear if you have selected the object. It disappears once you have deselected the object.
A new document is like writing on a fresh piece of paper.
Click on your File tab
Select New from the menu.
You will see options for blank documents and templates (pre-made forms and projects) shown on the right hand of the screen. Click Blank document.
Click on the red X in the top right corner. This will open a dialogue box asking if you want to save the document.
To save a document click “Save”. If you do not need to save the document, click “Don’t Save”.
To cancel closing the document click “Cancel”.
To save a document
Go to the File tab
You should always click on Save As the first time you save a document. This allows you to decide where your document is saved as well as how it is saved.
3. Use scroll bar to find documents.
Click on Documents from the side menu. You can also save a document on a DOC
stick or in another file by selecting them from the side menu.
4. Click beside “File Name”
Type the name you would like to call your file.
Click Save.
Wait as the computer saves your file.
You should save your work as you go, about every two minutes. Once you have saved your work with the name, you only have to click the disk icon beside the File tab to save changes.
Saving to a DOC (Memory Stick)
Put your memory stick into the DOC port.
Click on Save As beside the File tab.
Click on Removable Disk on the left hand side.
Note: The DOC drive name may change. If using a DOC from a certain company (like Kingston or Lexar), the DOC might show that company’s name instead of “Removable Disk”.
Scroll down to the bottom, double click on the removable disk.
Click in the File name box.
Delete everything in the “file name” box.
Type the name of your file and click Save.
Click on the file folder icon at the bottom of the screen
Select Documents or Removable disk from the side menu.
Click on the file you wish to use and click Open
OR
Double click on the file name.
Opening a Document from your Memory Stick (DOC)
If you are already in Word, click on the File tab at the top of
your screen and then click Open .
Scroll down the menu on the left side. You will see an icon like this.
Double click on the DOC drive. The drive may have a letter or a name, depending on how many drives your computer has.
Select the Word file to the right you wish to open.
Click Open.
You can also get to a file on the DOC by:
1. Clicking on the folder icon at the bottom of the screen.
2. Clicking on the Removable Disk.
3. Double clicking the file you wish to open.
Type the 5 things you would like to learn in this course into your document.
Type one on each line.
Save this file on your DOC. The file name is Learning.
Close.
Open a new page.
Type the numbers ten to twenty, one on each line.
Save this file on your DOC. The file name is Numbers.
Close
Open a new page.
Type five skills or qualities you have that make you proud of yourself.
Save this file on your DOC. The file name is About Me.
Close.
Open the file named Learning on your DOC Stick.
Speak with your instructor and ask to see if what you would like to learn is offered in the program’s training. Put a Yes beside the ones that are included in the training and a No beside the ones that are not.
Save it on your DOC (memory stick).
Close.
Open the file named Numbers on your Memory Stick.
Under the numbers, type the words for the numbers, one on each line.
Save on your DOC.
Close.
Open the file named About Me on your Memory Stick.
Under the skills you have written, type five of your favourite things.
Save on your DOC.
Close.