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Getting Started With Microsoft® Word® 2007 Lesson 2: Selecting, Formatting, and Proofing Text

You begin Lesson 2 by learning how to select document text in a variety of ways in order to format, move, copy, or delete it. Next, you learn how to format text characters by changing the font, font size, font color, and font style. You also learn how to change text case.

You learn to apply highlighting and special character effects to text and then insert symbols and special characters. Then you learn how to cut, copy, and paste text, find and replace text, and use three proofing tools: Spelling and Grammar Check, Thesaurus, and AutoCorrect.

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Objectives

  1. select text
  2. format text characters
  3. cut, copy, and paste tex
  4. find and replace text and formatting
  5. use the proofing tools

Key Terms

points

Replace command button

Replace Font dialog box

Replace tab

Research task pane

Save command

Save command button

Select command button

Selection Bar

selection pointer

Spelling & Grammar command button

Spelling and Grammar dialog box

Strikethrough command button

Subscript command button

Superscript command button

Symbol command button

Symbol dialog box

Synonyms command

system Clipboard

Text Highlight Color command button

Thesaurus command button

Underline command button

Undo command button

Windows Clipboard

AutoCorrect

Bold command button

Change Case command button

contextual spelling error

Copy command button

Cut command button

Dialog Box Launcher icon

drag and drop

Find and Replace dialog box

Find command button

Find tab

font

font color

Font Color command button

Font command button

Font dialog box

font size

Font Size command button

font style

highlighter pointer

Italic command button

live preview

Office Clipboard

Office Clipboard task pane

Paste command button