Course:

Computer and its applications

Lab8: MS Word
 MS-Word
• Microsoft Word or MS-WORD (often
called Word) is a graphical word processing
program that users can type with.
•  It's easy to use
• Allow users to type and save documents as it
has helpful tools to make documents.
• Starting with MS-Word:
To open MS-word, Click Start button, start menu
will appear
Select All programs and click Microsoft Office-
Word
The Microsoft Word program will load, and a
blank document will appear on your screen.
The Microsoft Office Button:
You click on it to see these options: New, Open, Save, Save
As, Print, Prepare, Send, Publish and Close.
Getting Help in MS Word 2007:
At the top right‐hand corner of the screen and click on the
question mark icon or press F1
• MS Word is organized into tabbed menu bars,
like the one you see at the top of the screen.
• By default, MS Word starts you off in the Home
tab when you first open the program.
• From here you can change the size, color, font,
style and justification of text. As well, you can also
add highlighting, shading and borders to your text,
and/or put it into a bulleted or numbered list.
Styles:
• Styles are predefined settings font, size, color, etc… for
text.
• For example, – “Normal” default style in MS Word is
11pt, Calibri font, black text. – “Heading 1” is 14pt,
Cambria font, navy blue text.
• You can also change it simply by right‐clicking on it and
selecting “Modify
Textboxes:
A textbox can be placed anywhere on the page,
giving you much more control of how your
document will look
• To insert a textbox, go to the insert tab and click
on the text box button.
• Drag mouse pointer over an area to create
textbox.
• You can enter text into a textbox and control its
formatting (alignment, font, etc)
Word Art:
WordArt allows you to add interesting text effects
into your documents.
To insert WordArt, go to the insert tab, click on
WordArt and select a design.
Shapes:
To insert arrows and other shapes go to the insert tab, click
on the Shapes button and select the shape that you want
to insert.
Smart Art:
• Smart Art is a drawing tool bar and part of Word, Excel
and PowerPoint
• When you click it, Graphic menu will appear.
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• Symbols can also be inserted from the insert tab
and include things like the Greek alphabet,
mathematical notation.
• Pictures:
Pictures can be inserted in a number of ways. For example:
You can simply cut and paste your image into your
document
From the insert tab you can insert clipart
From the insert tab you can insert a picture from a file on
your computer.
Page Numbers:
To add page numbers to a document, select “Page
Number” from the insert tab, then you will be
This lets you change the
given some more options number style (i.e. Roman
Numerals, Letters, etc…)

Change
this
option
Select
start at
and give
a page
number
Saving your Document:
• To save your document, simply click on the MS logo in the
top left‐hand corner and you see a drop down menu giving
you various options including saving (or press Ctrl+S).
Printing your document:
Select MS logo, a menu of choices will appear, select print,
a standard Print Menu screen will appear, select pages
and click ok or press (Ctrl+P)
Spell Check and Grammar:
• MS Word provides you with many tools for
spelling and grammar and these can be found in
the Review tab (or press F7).
Word-Shortcuts
 Lab Tasks
1. Create a word file and write names of your group
members using different font styles( different colors, size,
style, bullets)
2. Draw a table of 3x4 and 6x5.
3. Draw a scatter plot of the following values of X and Y
X= 1,3,5,7,9
Y= 2,4,6,8,10
4. Save your file in PDF format
Select text (group member’s name) and change its font
• From Insert tab, select table

You can specify the rows and

columns either by typing them
in or by drawing the table.
• From Insert tab, select Chart, XY Scatter.
• Insert given values of X and Y, then select the whole text
and choose graph type.
• When ready to ‘Save as PDF”, select the Office Menu icon in
the top left of your screen.
• Choose “Save as” and press “PDF or XPS”, then select
publish