University of Warith Alanbiyaa Ministry of Higher Education and

College of Engineering scientific Research

Department of Biomedical

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1st Lec

Lab (Navigating the Microsoft Word Toolbar)

By

Dr. Ali Abdul Ameer Al saadi

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Navigating the Microsoft Word Toolbar

Review the Home tab to see your formatting options. At the top of your screen from left to right
are five sub-sections of this tab:
Clipboard - Whenever you copy text, it is saved on your clipboard. You can view copied text by
clicking the Clipboard option here.
Font - From this section, you can change your font style, size, color, formatting (e.g., bold or
italic), and highlighting.
Paragraph - You can change aspects of your paragraph formatting such as line spacing,
indentation, and bullet formatting from this section.
Styles - This section covers different types of text for various situations (e.g., headings, titles, and
subtitles). You'll also see the popular "No Spacing" option here, which removes excess spaces
between lines of text.
Editing - A couple of commonly used tools such as "Find and Replace", which allows you to
quickly replace all appearances of one word with another live here.
The home tab has been shown in the figure below.

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Click the Insert tab to review the types of media you can place in your document. Insert is to the
right of the Home tab. The Insert tab allows you to add things like graphics and page numbers to
your document. From left to right, a couple of notable options include the following:
Pages- Use this feature to insert cover page, blank page and page break
Table - Clicking this option will allow you to create an Excel-style table right in your document.
Illustration - Use this feature to insert a picture, shapes, chart, screenshot, Icons and SmartArt
into your document.
Media- Use this feature to insert an online Video by using its ULR.
Links – to insert link, bookmark and cross-reference
Comments- to add a comment to the paragraph
Header& Footer- These options are all essential for writing in MLA- or APA-style formatting.
The Header places a space at the top of the document for comment, while the Footer goes at the
bottom--page numbers are customizable.
Text- Use this feature to insert text box, add a signature line, … etc.
Symbol - These options use special formatting to accurately display simple equations. You can
select these equations or symbols from the pertinent drop-down menu.
The insert tab has been shown in the figure below.

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Click the Design tab to create your own template. It's to the right of the Insert tab. The Design tab
contains pre-designed themes and formats listed across the top of the page, as shown in the figure
below.

Click the Layout tab to customize your page's formatting. This tab contains options for changing
the following aspects of your document:
Page setup, paragraph and arrange

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Click the References to manage your citations. If you have a bibliography page, you can also
manage it from here.
Table of Contents- this option use to insert table of content, adding text and update the table
Footnote- this used to insert footnote and endnote.
In the "Citations & Bibliography" group of options, you can change your bibliography formatting
from APA to MLA (or other citation styles).
The "Captions" group has an option to insert a table of figures. This is useful for scientific review
papers or similar documents in which statistical data is prioritized over quotations.
Index and table of authorities - Used to insert index or table of authorities.

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Click the Mailings tab to review your document sharing options. You can review your email
settings and share your documents from within this section.
You can also print an envelope or label template by clicking the create option in the top left corner
of your screen.
The Select start mail merge or the other options you could have other features we can see it in the
picture below

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Click the Review tab. The Review section is geared towards editing, so it includes options for
marking up documents, proofreading, add comment and so on. As shown in the Figure below.

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Click the view tab. The view section is geared towards views, pages movement, zoom in, zoom
out and so on. This feature give use free reader and reading style too as shown in figure below.