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PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS WORD PROCESSORS

WHAT IS A WORD PROCESSOR
A word processor is a device or computer program
that provides for input, editing, formatting, and
output of text, often with some additional features.

Microsoft Word Introduction Lesson .pptx

So, the term Word Processing refers to the act of processing
the textual information including typing, editing, formatting
and printing.
The following are examples of word processing software.

HOW TO START MSWORD
Method 1
1. Take the mouse pointer to start button on the task bar. Click the
left mouse button.
2. Move the pointer to programs. You will notice another menu
coming up to the right.
3. In that menu identify where Microsoft word is placed. Move the
cursor horizontally to come out of the programs.
4. Move into the rectangular area meant for the MS word. Click the
left mouse button there. The computer will start MS-word

Method 2
double click on the Microsoft word icon on the desktop

Besides these two methods other methods for opening word
are:
Using Run Command.
Using DOS: Specify the absolute path to open
WINWORD.EXE title. After writing the absolute path the
MS-Word will open up.

Title
bar
Menu
bar
Rule
r
View
button
s
Status
bar
Vertical
scroll
bar
Standard
toolbar
Window
control
buttons

COMPONENTS ON THE SCREEN
(A) Menu bar: the word menu is displayed at the top of
the screen. The main menu further display a sub menu.
Some of the option are highlighted option and some of the
option are appear as faded.at any time only highlighted
options are executed, faded options are not applicable.
The menu bar is look like:

Home: This contains the most-used Word features, such as
changing fonts and font attributes, customizing paragraphs,
using styles, and finding and replacing text.
Insert: As you might guess, this one handles anything you might
want to insert into a document, such as tables, pictures, charts,
hyperlinks, bookmarks, headers and footers, WordArt ... etc.

Page Layout: This is where you'll change margins, page size
and orientation, set up columns, align objects and add
effects. There is some overlap between this tab and the
Home tab. E.G. On the Page Layout tab you set paragraph
spacing and indents, while on the Home tab you set
paragraph alignment and can also set spacing between
lines.
References: This tab handles tables of contents, footnotes,
bibliographies, indexes and similar material. It also lets you
insert a "Table of Authorities," which like a security setting
but is in fact is a list of references in a legal document.

Mailings: As the name says, this is where you'll go for
anything to do with mailings, from something as simple as
creating labels to the more intimidating task of mail
merges.
Review: To check spelling and grammar use the
thesaurus, track changes, review other people's changes
or compare documents? This is the tab to use.
View: This tab allows you to change the view in any way,
including displaying a ruler and gridlines, zooming in and
out, splitting a window and so on.

(B) Tool bar: word has number of tool bars that help you
perform task faster and with great ease. Toolbar provides
shortcuts to menu command. Tool bar is just located just
above the menu bar. Two of most commonly tool bar are
the formatting tool bar and standard tool bar. These two
tool bar are displayed just below the title bar. At any
point of time any tool bar can be made on or off through
the tool bar option of view menu.

SELECTING TEXT.
To Select a Word
place the mouse pointer on the word to be selected and double click
the left mouse button to select that word. The selected word will
appear in reverse color.

To Select a Line
Bring the mouse pointer to the beginning of the line in the
left margin. Click the left mouse button to select the line.

To Select a paragraph
keep the mouse pointer anywhere within the paragraph
and triple click left mouse button to select that paragraph.

To Select a Large Block of Text
Click at the beginning of the text, hold down the Shift Key
and click at the end of the text.

EXERCISE
TYPE THE FOLLOWING TEXT
Microsoft Word
Computer software
Microsoft Word is a word processor developed by
Microsoft. It was first released on October 25, 1983,
under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems.

1. Apply font “14” to the whole text
2. Apply font type “Times New Roman” to the whole text
3. make the title Bold
4. Italicize the text “released on October 25, 1983”
5. underline the text “Computer software”

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