Microsoft Word 2010 Basics

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 THE MICROSOFT WORD 2010 SCREEN

• Starting Microsoft Word 2010
• The Microsoft Word 2010 screen
• The levels of command organization
• The Start Button
• Ribbon Tabs
• Minimizing the Ribbon
• Switching between tabs using the mouse wheel
• Groups
• Dialog box launcher

STARTING TO USE MICROSOFT WORD 2010

• Using the default Microsoft Word document
• Saving Microsoft Word documents
• Opening and closing documents
• Save As
• Creating a new document
• Using Help within Microsoft Word
• Alt key help
• Closing Microsoft Word
• Saving documents using different formats
• Creating documents using different templates
• Switching between Word Views
• Navigating through documents

MANIPULATING TEXT

• Select, then format
• Selecting text
• Inserting, deleting, undo and redo
• Insert and overtype mode
• Copying text within a document
• Moving (cutting) text within a document

THE CLIPBOARD

• Using the Clipboard
• The Office Clipboard
• Removing items from the Office Clipboard

TEXT FORMATTING

• What is text Formatting?
• Font type
• Font size
• Grow Font and Shrink Font icons
• Font size keyboard shortcut
• Bold, italic or underline
• Subscript and superscript
• Case changing
• Highlighting
• Font color
• Copying text formatting
• Removing formatting
• Using Zoom
• Inserting special characters and symbols

PARAGRAPH FORMATTING

• Paragraph marks
• Soft paragraph (line break) marks
• Recommended techniques for aligning and indenting text
• Aligning text
• Indenting paragraphs
• Applying single or double line spacing within paragraphs
• Applying spacing above or below paragraphs
• Using paragraph spacing rather than using the Return key
• Applying bullets to a list
• Applying numbering a list
• Modifying bullet and numbering formatting
• Removing bullet or numbering formatting

BORDERS AND SHADING

• Using borders and shading
• Adding a border
• Modifying borders
• Adding shading
• Modifying your shading
• Applying borders to selected text

FINDING AND REPLACING TEXT

• Using Find and Replace
• Finding text
• Replacing text

TABS

• Tab stops
• Setting and removing tabs
• Viewing tab marks using the Show/Hide icon

STYLES

• What are styles?
• Applying styles
• Style Sets

PAGE FORMATTING

• What is Page formatting?
• Page orientation and paper size
• Changing the page size
• Page margins
• Inserting Page Breaks
• Deleting Page Breaks
• Use page breaks rather than repeatedly pressing the Return key
• Headers and footers
• Page numbering
• Header and footer fields
• Editing text within a header or footer
• Cover pages
• Applying Automatic Hyphenation

TABLES

• Using tables
• Inserting a table
• Navigating within a table
• Selecting and editing text within a table
• Selecting cells, rows, columns or the entire table
• Inserting and deleting rows and columns
• Modifying column width or row height
• Modifying cell borders
• Adding shading to cells
• Modifying cell border width, color and style

USING GRAPHICS WITHIN MICROSOFT WORD

• Types of graphics that you can insert within Word 2010
• Inserting Pictures
• Inserting Clip Art
• Inserting Shapes
• Inserting SmartArt
• Inserting a chart
• Inserting a screen shot
• Selecting, resizing and deleting graphics
• Copying or moving graphics 

MULTIPLE DOCUMENTS

• Multitasking with Word 2010
• Switching between open documents
• Tiling or cascading documents on your screen
• Comparing documents side by side
• Copying or moving selected items between documents

MAIL MERGE

• What is mail merging?
• Starting the Mail Merge Wizard
• Mail Merge Wizard - Step 1 of 6 ‘Select document type’
• Mail Merge Wizard - Step 2 of 6 ‘Select Starting document’
• Mail Merge Wizard - Step 3 of 6 ‘Select recipients’
• Mail Merge Wizard - Step 4 of 6 ‘Write your letter’
• Mail Merge Wizard - Step 5 of 6 ‘Preview your letters’
• Mail Merge Wizard - Step 6 of 6 Previewing your letters
• Mail Merge Wizard - Printing Options
• Creating a mailing list to be used within a mail merge
• Merging a mailing list to produce labels

CUSTOMIZATION

• Customizing Microsoft Word
• Setting the User Name
• Setting the default opening and saving folder

PROOFING AND PRINTING

• The importance of proofing
• Spell checking a document
• Adding words to the built-in custom dictionary
• Removing a word from the spell checking dictionary
• Printing options
• Selecting a printer
• Choosing what to print
• Setting the number of copies to print
• Setting the pages per sheet
• Printing only odd or even pages
• Previewing and printing a document