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Microsoft Word
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Starting Microsoft Word
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The title bar is the first bar from the top of the
screen. It displays the name and the type of
document that is open. It also displays the
control menu icon in the left hand corner and
three buttons (minimize, maximize and close)
in the right hand corner.
Title Bar Cont’d
The Minimize button, which reduces Word
to an icon on the taskbar.
The Maximize button, which resizes Word so
that it takes up the whole screen. When
Word is maximized, the Restore button is
displayed instead, which restores Word to
its previous size.
The Close button, which closes Word.
Menu Bar
Formatting Toolbar
Toolbar Cont’d
Standard Toolbar:
The standard toolbar has shortcuts to most
frequently used instructions on the menu bar.
For example, “open a file”, “print a
document” and “save a file”, are represented
as pictures called icons and are placed on this
bar.
Toolbar Cont’d
Formatting Toolbar:
This toolbar contains icons that allow you to
format and edit the appearance of the
document, such as bold, underline and center
text and change the size and colour of text,
etc.
Toolbar Cont’d
Other Toolbars:
Microsoft Word provides several other toolbars
to use for various task. However, to
maximize screen space, very few of them
are displayed at any given time.
Toolbar Cont’d
Click ruler
Scroll Bars
Outline view
Reading layout
Task Pane
The task pane window appears to the right of the main
word window. It provides guide lines in carrying out
certain task.
To show or hide the task pane:
Click view
or