WORD BASICS: THE HOME MENU

READ THROUGH THE FOLLOWING SLIDES AND FILL OUT YOUR STUDY GUIDE

1. THE HOME MENU

The Home menu is where you find most of your formatting items:

• Clipboard

• Font

• Paragraph

• Styles

2. FORMATTING: HOW YOUR DOCUMENT WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN OR WHEN PRINTED.

3. Formatting is elements like font style, size, margins, line spacing, bolding, italics, underlining, numbers and bullets, and alignment.

4. Clipboard

•Place where cut or copied text is stored for future use

5. Copy

•To make a duplicate so you can put it in another place.

•Ctrl + C

6. Cut•To remove part of a document, usually placing it temporarily in memory so that the cut portion can be inserted (pasted) elsewhere

•Ctrl + X

7. Paste•To insert text or a graphic that has been cut or copied from one document into a different location in the same or a different document.

•Ctrl + V

8. FONT-THE LOOK OR THE DESIGN OF THE WORDS, NUMBERS, SYMBOLS. USE THE PULL DOWN MENU TO SEE YOUR CHOICES

9. FONT SIZING-CHANGING THE SIZE OF THE WORDS OR TEXT. THERE IS ALSO A SIZE UP AND DOWN OPTION FOR SPEED AND CONVENIENCE.

Select the text and click either the size up

or down button to change the size or use

the drop down size menu to specify a font

size.

10. TEXT STYLES-AN EFFECT THAT CAN BE APPLIED TO A FONT.11. Bold: Thickens the characters

12. Italics: Slants the text to the right

13. Underline: Adds a line under the characters

14. Font color: The color the text, numbers, or symbols appear as

15. Text Effects: Adds a visual effect to selected words-like a shadow or glow

16. Bullets

•A typographical symbol, such as a circle, diamond, box, or asterisk, used to set off a small block of text or each item in a list.

17. Numbering: The command for the computer to automatically start a numbered list for you, sometimes it will take over after you have started numbering

18. Indents: Increases or

decreases the amount the text is indented from the margin

19. Alignment: The way lines of text

are arranged to the edges of a block of text

Left justifiedCenter justified

Right justified

20. Line Spacing: The number of the blank spaces between lines of type. In a word processor, spacing can be set to almost any amount of line spacing. Pull down the Line Spacing button on the Home Menu and select the size of spacing you want to use.Types:

1.0Single SpacingSingle SpacingSingle SpacingSingle Spacing

2.0

Double

Spacing

Double

Spacing

Double

Spacing

Double

Spacing

21. Border: a line or box that frames the text, use the drop down menu to specify what types of border

22. STYLES: A SELECTION OF PRE-SET FORMATS. SELECT THE TEXT AND CHOOSE WHICH STYLE YOU WANT FROM THE DROP DOWN MENU.