Getting Started With Microsoft® Word® 2007 Lesson 1: Getting to Know the Working Environment

In Lesson 1, you learn how to use the Word 2007 software (Word) to create or open, save, print, and close a text document, such as an agenda or report.

You begin by starting Word and reviewing the elements of the Word window. Next, you key a text paragraph into a blank document, insert and remove text, and then save and close the document.

Then you create two documents: a new blank document using a command button on the Ribbon and a second document using a Word document template. You switch between the documents and then close them.

Next, you open an existing document and view the document in various Word reviewing or editing views. You use the keyboard, Thumbnails, and the Go To feature to navigate in the document, and then you preview and print it.

Finally, you learn how to modify Word interface options and how to get help while working in Word.

Objectives

1. start Word 2007 and identify Word 2007 window elements
2. key text at the position of the insertion point
3. create, open, save, preview, and print documents
4. navigate and select in a document
5. apply character formatting
6. cut, copy, paste, find, and replace text
7. apply paragraph formatting
8. set page orientation and margins and
9. insert page numbers, headers, footers, and page breaks

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