Word 2003 Introduction

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This webinar is an introduction to Microsoft Word. Microsoft Word is a word processing application. The assumption in the introductory course is that you've never used the product before. So we're going to start with some of the real basics, some of the fundamentals. The first thing that's important to know is what I call the GeekSpeak. You need to understand some of the technical terms so that when you try to get help from either the help menus or you try to get help from a technician, you'll be speaking the same language. First of all, notice at the top of the screen it says we are on document number one in Microsoft Word. This is called the title bar. The next row on the screen is called the menu bar because each of these items that appear here have a menu so that when you click you get another set of options that open up as a menu. The next line or the next lines depending on how you've configured Microsoft Word is called the toolbar or there are multiple toolbars. And each of the icons that are sitting on the toolbar allow you to do various things. In this particular setup of Microsoft Word 2003, we actually have two toolbars that are sitting side by side. The first one as you can see as I move my mouse along the toolbar is here, and the second one begins in this new set of perforations over on the right-hand side. Depending on your preferences and your temperament, you may decide you don't like them to be side by side and you'd like to stack them. And if that's your choice, you'll notice that when I put the mouse at the perforations, the mouse pointer turns into four pointing arrows. At which point you could hold the left mouse button down and drag this toolbar elsewhere on the screen. So I'm going to drag it below the other toolbar. Notice it happened very, very quickly. And it now positions itself below or stacked as the second toolbar below the first toolbar. If you wanted it to precede the other toolbar, you could drag it up here and you will see now that it precedes the other toolbar, and the other one is kind of short over here on the right-hand side. I'm going to bring it down once more, and we'll sit it here again. The main part of your document appears below, and there are, in this particular case, rulers showing at the top of the screen and on the left margin of the screen. Another option would be to remove the rulers, and we'll get into that a little bit later. The shaded or gray or bluish color section of the ruler is where your margin settings are, and you'll notice that the cursor is blinking indented from the left margin, this width according to the blue section at the top, to show that our margin begins here, and we are now going to type. When Microsoft Word initially opens, the general task pane appears on the right-hand side. You can always click it, and it will close when you click the X button on the top right-hand corner, and you get more real estate on the screen for your document. The task pane actually has a mind of its own. Occasionally it will appear, depending on what you're doing in the application, to assist you in doing another step or taking another action in the product. If you would like generally to view the task pane, you can click on the view menu item, and then select task pane, and the task pane will appear once again on the right-hand side. Down at the bottom of the screen, there is a status bar that shows you some pieces of information about your document. We are on page one, we are in section one, and the one slash one means that we're on page one of one, and we are at one inch on the page, line one, column one, and our document is set to use English for its spell checker. Depending on the size of your document, as you write more or write less, there will be a scroll bar appearing on the right so that you can scroll up and down, and there's a scroll bar appearing at the bottom so you can scroll left and right on the document. And you will notice when I scroll down to the bottom of the document, that you can see the margin at the bottom, and when I scroll to the right, you can see the margin over on the right.