Templates and Wizards
When you are creating common documents (resume, letters, memos, fax cover letters etc.) Templates and Wizards can save you a lot of time.
Wizards actually walk you through the creation of a document step-by-step. All you have to do is select from the available wizards, answer a few on screen questions, and based on your answers to the questions, the Wizard creates a document for you. Templates are outlines or patterns for documents. When you select from Word’s list of templates, a document immediately appears on your screen with placeholders predesigned for you to click and enter specific information.
1. Choose New from the File menu. The New Document dialog box will appear. 2. Click the tab for the type of document you would like to create and then click to select actual document from the list of available documents. A preview of your choice will appear on the right side of the dialog box. 3. Click the OK button. If you selected a Template, your document appears on the screen. If you selected a Wizard, Word begins asking you a series of questions before creating your document.
Copy, Cut, Paste
To use any of these commands, you must first select the text or items that you want to manipulate. You may choose these commands from the Edit menu or use the toolbar buttons for each command.
Cut: Removes the selected text or graphic from your document and places it onto your computer’s clipboard so that you can paste it somewhere else in your document. Copy: Copies what you selected and places it onto the clipboard. Your original document remains intact. You can later paste copied information somewhere else in your document. Paste: Takes what you cut or copy to the clipboard and places (pastes) it in another location (in the same document or in another document).
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Fonts
Fonts are letter styles or designs. Your computer came with a number of fonts pre-installed. You may make changes to the type, size, color and style of your font.
Font Selection Before Entering Text
1. Click the Font pull-down menu to display the list available fonts and make a font selection. 2. Click the Font Size pull-down menu and select a size for your font. 3. Click on one of the Font Styles or for plain text, do not make a selection. 4. Black is the default text color, to make another color selection, click on the Font Color button and choose from the palette that appears.
Font Changes After Entering Text
If you want to make changes to text that you have already entered, you must first select the text (click and drag to highlight) you want to change and then follow the same steps listed above.
Thesaurus
1. Select the word you would like to replace. 2. Select Language from the Tools menu and then select Thesaurus from the pop-up menu that appears. The Thesaurus dialog box will appear. 3. Click the correct meaning for the word you highlighted and the possible replacements will appear in the scrolling list on the right side of the screen. 4. Click to select the word you would like to use as a replacement and click the Replace button. Word replaces the word you originally selected in the document with the new word.
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Find/Replace
1. Choose Find from the Edit menu. 2. Type in the word you would like to find and click Find Next. 3. Word begins searching your document and highlights the first matching word. At this point you may click on your document and make any changes or click the Replace tab to bring forward the Replace dialog box. 4. Type in the text you want to replace the text in the Find box with and click Replace to replace this one instance or Replace All to replace all the instances of this word. o
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