PRDV003: Word Processing Using Microsoft Word

The Home Tab

Font Category

• Font Pop-up Menu — A pop-up menu that lets you choose the font of the selected text.
  
• Size Pop-up Menu — A pop-up menu that lets you choose the point size of the selected text. You can also type in a custom value by clicking on the number displayed.
  
• Increase Font Size, Decrease Font Size — Increases or decreases the point size of the selected text.
  
• Convert Case — Opens a menu that lets you change the case of the selected text.
  
• Clear Formatting — Removes any custom formatting applied to the selected text.
  
• Bold, Italic, Underline, Small Caps, Strikethrough, Superscript, Subscript — Buttons that toggle the respective formatting attribute when clicked.
  
• Font Color, Highlight Color — Changes the color of the selected text, or of the background behind the text.
  
• Text Effects — Allows you to add shadow, reflection, glow, or outline effects to the selected text.
  

Paragraph Category

• List Styles — Three pop-up menus that let you choose a list style (bulleted, numbered, or hierarchical) to use with the selected text.
  
• Indent, Unindent — Adds or removes indentation from the selected text (pushing it to the right or the left, respectively).
  
• Columns — Allows you to make a multi-column page layout.
  
• Left, Center, Right, Justify — Allows you to specify the horizontal alignment of the selected text.
  
• Line Spacing — Allows you to change how closely spaced the lines in the selection are.
  
• Borders — Allows you to show or hide borders of a paragraph or table cell.
  
• Sort
  

Styles Category

• Quick Style List — A scrolling list of some of the most commonly used styles.
  
• Change Quick Styles Settings — This button opens a menu that lets you select from twelve predesigned sets of Quick Styles that share common design characteristics.
  
• Manage Styles — Opens the Styles pane of the Toolbox.
  

Insert Category

• Text Box — Click this button and drag to create a new text box.
  
• Shape — Click this button to open a menu of many kinds of predrawn shapes you can drag to insert.
  
• Picture — Click this button to insert a picture or clip art image.
  

Themes Category

• Themes — Click this button to open a list of predefined font/font size/color scheme sets called themes.
  

The Layout Tab

Page Setup Category

• Orientation — Click this button to choose whether your document will be printed in portrait (tall) or landscape (wide) orientation.
  
• Size — Click this button to open a list of common paper sizes.
  
• Break — Click this button to open a menu where you can insert different kinds of page or section breaks.
  

Margins Category

• Margins — Click this button to open a list of common margin sizes.
  
• Top, Bottom, Left, Right — Use these text fields to create a custom margin size.
  

Text Layout Category

• Direction — Click this button to change which direction the text is printed in (horizontally, vertically down, or vertically up).
  
• Columns — This button is identical to the Columns button on the Home tab. It allows you to make a multi-column page layout.
  
• Line Numbers — This button opens a menu of options that tells Word to number each line in the left margin.
  
• Hyphenation — This button opens a dialog box that allows you to change automatic hyphenation settings.
  

Page Background Category

• Watermark — Click this button to open a dialog box where you can print a watermark behind the text on each page.
  
• Color — Click this button to open a menu allowing you to choose a background color for each page.
  
• Borders — Click this button to open a dialog box allowing you to place a border around the text on each page.
  

Grid Category

• Options — Click this button to open a dialog box containing options relating to an alignment grid.
  
• Gridlines — Check this box to display a light grid behind the text on the page.
  
• Snap Objects to Others — Check this box to “snap” objects (such as a shape) to the edges of other objects.
  
• Snap Objects to Grid — Check this box to “snap” objects to intersections of the alignment grid lines.