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    Word is a word processing program that allows users to create documents like letters and reports on a computer in a similar way to a typewriter. However, Word enables easy editing and formatting of documents. The Word screen displays a document window for composing text surrounded by tabs, toolbars, and other interface elements for managing documents. These include the Ribbon tabs for commands, the ruler, and status bar with information about the document.

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    Word Is A

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    Word is a word processing program that allows users to create documents like letters and reports on a computer in a similar way to a typewriter. However, Word enables easy editing and formatting of documents. The Word screen displays a document window for composing text surrounded by tabs, toolbars, and other interface elements for managing documents. These include the Ribbon tabs for commands, the ruler, and status bar with information about the document.

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    Word is a 

    word processing programme. Like a typewriter, a word processing


    programme is used to create documents such as letters, memos, or reports.
    As you type on your computer keyboard, text is displayed on your screen and
    is stored in your computer’s memory, which is its temporary electronic storage
    area.

    Unlike a typewriter, a word processor enables you to make changes to a


    document easily, without unnecessary retyping. For example, you can insert
    and delete words, move paragraphs, and correct spelling errors. As your
    document develops, you can save the changes you have made on a disk or
    on another storage medium. When the document is complete, you can save
    and print it.

    Any formatting that can be done on a typewriter, such as setting margins and
    line spacing or changing tabs, can be duplicated in a word processing
    programme. Word processing programmes use many of the same or
    comparable keystrokes as a typewriter, such as pressing Enter (Return on a
    typewriter) to move to a new line, pressing Tab to move to the next tab
    setting, and pressing Caps Lock (Shift Lock on a typewriter) to type
    exclusively in capital letters.

    Word processing provides many additional functions to make document


    creation much easier than on a typewriter. One of these features is word-
    wrap, which moves the entire last word of a line down to the next line if it
    extends beyond the right margin. Word processors also provide automatic
    reformatting if you change a document’s margins or tabs after text has been
    entered. Additionally, most word processors provide tools to correct spelling
    and grammar errors.

    Starting Word
    To begin working in Word, start the programme from within the Windows
    environment or ‘workspace’. You can usually start Word by choosing Microsoft
    Word from the Start menu’s Programmes submenu.

    Method
    To start Word:

    1. On the Windows taskbar, choose Start.


    2. From the Programs submenu, choose Microsoft Word 2013.
    Note: There are other ways to start Word from Windows. If necessary, follow
    your instructor’s directions to start the programme.

    Exercise
    In the following exercise, you will start Word.

    1. On the Windows taskbar, choose Start. [The Start menu appears].


    2. From the Programs submenu, choose Microsoft Word 2013. [Word
    starts.]

    Identifying Components of the Word Screen


    When you start working in Word, your monitor displays what appears to be a
    blank piece of paper on your screen with a blinking black bar on the left. This
    screen, the document window, is where you enter and manage your
    document text. Different command interfaces and informational display areas,
    illustrated in Figure 1-1, surround the document window. Each of these items
    allows you to receive information about, or apply features to, your document.

    Microsoft Word wants you to manage, organise, and create things with words.
    That's the essence of word processing. What you see on the screen, on
    Word's interface, is designed to make writing an easy and effortless task. The
    largest portion of the Word screen is for composing text. It's blank and white,
    just like a fresh sheet of paper. That's where you compose and format your
    text.

    Surrounding the text-composing area is a bewildering host of goobers.


    Despite their overwhelming appearance, the things that cling to the Word
    programme window are there to help you write. The following list offers a
    quick top-to-bottom explanation of the tabs, toolbars, buttons, and other
    gizmos you see on the screen. Use Figure 1 for reference.

     The title bar lists the document's title or merely Document1 until you
    give the document a title by saving it to disk.
     The File Ribbon Tab replaces the traditional File menu of most Windows
    programmes. Clicking the File Ribbon Tab displays the File Ribbon Tab
    menu, a list of commands that deal with files and documents. It's the big
    round button at the top left of the screen, with four colourful squares in
    it.
     Tabs organise Word's various and sundry commands into groups based
    on word-processing activities. Tabs appear and disappear depending on
    what you're doing in Word.
     Groups and command buttons help keep commands for the various
    tabs organised. Each group contains command buttons that do specific
    things to your text.
     The Ruler may or may not be visible. When the Ruler is visible, it helps
    you set margins and tabs. To show or hide the Ribbon select View Tab
    then Ruler.
    Below the writing area dwells the status bar. This informative strip of graphical
    goodness contains trivial information about your document, as well as the
    following ornaments:

     Document information lists optional data specific to your document.


     The View buttons specify how the blank page appears in the window.
     The Zoom slider sets how large or small your document appears inside
    the window.
    Don't worry about all these things now. The most important components are
    shown in Figure 1. What's important now is that you recognise the names of
    things so that you don't get lost later.
     The tabs, groups, and command buttons change as you take on various
    activities in Word. Although this may seem disruptive, it's quite handy.
     You can hide the Ribbon if you would rather have more room to write:
    Right-click anywhere on the Ribbon and choose the Collapse the
    Ribbon command from the pop-up menu. To restore the Ribbon, right-
    click any tab and choose the Collapse the Ribbon command again.
     Another part of the window, not shown in Figure 1, is the navigation
    pane. It shows up when it's needed, to offer more choices, options, or
    information.
     The Windows taskbar, located at the bottom of the screen, is a part of
    Windows itself and not Word. However, as you open documents in
    Word, buttons representing those documents appear on the Windows
    taskbar.
    Both the Ribbon and Quick Access Bar can be customised.

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