Understand how word processors work

Understand how word processors work

• Understand how word processors work

• Customize Microsoft Word

• Use features that improve readability

• Check spelling and grammar

Display a document in different views

• Display a document in different views

• Prepare a document for distribution

• Modify document properties

Word processors have features that make it easy to create documents.

• Word processors have features that make it easy to create documents.

• Consider both the content and look of the document.

• Create copies of documents and back up changes at every opportunity.

Apply font attributes through the Font dialog box

• Apply font attributes through the Font dialog box

• Control word wrapping

• Set off paragraphs with tabs, borders, lists, and columns

• Apply paragraph formats

Understand styles

• Understand styles

• Create and modify styles

• Format a graphical object

• Insert symbols into a document

Typeface or font

• Typeface or font

• Serif

• Sans serif

• Monospaced

• Proportional

Sentence case

• Sentence case

• lowercase

• UPPERCASE

• Capitalize Each Word

• tOGGLE case

Alignment

• Alignment

• Indentation

• Tab stops

• Line spacing

Typography gives your document a polished, professional look.

• Typography gives your document a polished, professional look.

• Alignments, indentation, and line spacing make the document readable.

• Styles provide consistency.

• Graphics enhance the document.

Insert comments in a document

• Insert comments in a document

• Track changes in a document

• Acknowledge a source

• Create and modify footnotes and endnotes

Insert a Table of Contents and Index

• Insert a Table of Contents and Index

• Add other reference tables

• Create cross-references

Insert a table

• Insert a table

• Format a table

• Sort and apply formulas to table data

• Convert text to a table

Select a main document

• Select a main document

• Select or create recipients

• Insert merge fields

• Merge a main document and data source

Tables organize information, making it easy to read and understand.

• Tables organize information, making it easy to read and understand.

• Mail merges save time and energy when preparing personalized documents.

Collaboration features enable you to insert comments and track changes in a document.

• Collaboration features enable you to insert comments and track changes in a document.

• Tools, such as footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies, enable you to acknowledge sources.

• Supplemental document components assist readers in finding information.