Free Word Tutorial

What is Word This may be the first time you've ever used Word or any other word processing program. Hold on to your that because you are about to learn how to use a program that can handle almost any task you can imagine. From writing simple letters and generating a mass mailing to producing high-quality presentation materials, Word can do all this and more.

Finding and Opening Documents Using the tools in the Open dialog box to navigate through the drives and folders on your system (and/or network). Searching for a file when you can't remember its name or where it is located. Organizing your files into folders so you can locate them later. Learning how to move, copy, rename, and delete files within the file management dialog boxes. Converting files from different formats so you can work with documents created in other programs.

Editing Documents Selecting text to perform numerous operations. Using the Undo feature as the ultimate "oops" fixer. Adjusting the zoom setting so that you can read tiny print or check a detailed graphic.

Selecting Text The Select feature is a powerful tool. Whenever you want to work with a specific section of text, you can select just that portion and work on it separately from the rest of the document. Selecting text gives you maximum flexibility because you can isolate the text or other items that you want to work with. Whatever action you take on the selection won't affect the rest of the document. When you edit documents, you'll do a lot of selecting, so take a few minutes to learn some shortcuts.

Moving and Copying Text you'll learn dozens of things that you can do with selected text. One of the most basic functions you will probably use is to move or copy text. If you move the text, deleting it from the original location and placing it somewhere else, you are cutting and pasting text. When you make a copy of the text, leaving a copy in the original location and placing the new copy in a different place, you are copying and pasting text.

Using Undo to Fix Your Mistakes How many times have you been a little hasty in a dialog box and done something you really didn't want to do? Simply put, Undo reverses the last action taken on a document. For example, if you delete selected text, Undo brings it back. If you change the margins, Undo puts them back the way they were. The text will look as if you never took the action.

Working with More Than One Document Stop for a minute and think about how you use your computer. On any given day, you probably have two or three applications running at once Word, your email application, several Web browser windows, a scanner or digital camera program, and so on. Your Windows taskbar contains buttons for each of the programs that you are running so that you can quickly switch back and forth between programs.......