Hands-On Tutorial on MS Word --Part 1 (Word File Creation and Headings)
Introduction to MS Word
MS
Word is word processing application software developed by Microsoft, thus
called Microsoft Word. It was first
released on October 25, 1983, for Windows, the first version of Word was
released in 1989. A number of subsequent versions of Word were released and
some of them become highly popular such as Word 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013,
and 2016; and currently we are available with MS Word 2017.
What we can do with MS Word?
We can use Word to create and modify and
document that is composed of text (letters), figures (images), tables, shapes
(lines, rectangles, arrows, etc.), charts (pie, area, bar, etc.), smart art
(lists, processes, hierarchies, etc.), symbols, mathematical equations,
references, links to external sources, and many other related features. Word
documents included but not limited to letters, resumes, reports, articles, and
books.
What we can’t do with MS Word?
Word
can do many things for you, but can’t do everything. For example, mathematical
manipulations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and
others may not be handled in MS Word. Another Microsoft application called MS
Excel is meant to use for mathematical calculations and operations. Similarly,
if your document consists of lists of information and want to search or sort,
database application is a better option instead of Word. Word can handle simple
database that you can sort and search, but Microsoft Access is a better option
to choose.
Objective of Tutorial
To
teach those functions of MS Word that usually the beginners don’t bother to use
while creating their documents. Not using the available functionalities of Word
may lead to substantial time waste in creating complex and lengthy documents
such as articles, reports, and books.
Tutorial Outlines
This tutorial is designed to cover the following important
functionalities of MS Word.
Creating a simple document
Heading 1 is the first level heading. Usually it is required
in article or book writing where text is categorized at multiple levels.
Heading 2 levels the text at second level. It is a bit
smaller than Heading 1.
Figure 5
Right clicking on Headings open a new window of life style
where style related functions such as fond size, font types, etc., could be
applied on the Heading text. Heading name can be changed to a customized name.
Figure 6
Inserting Objects to the document
Word provides facility
of adding objects of different types such as images, tables, charts, shapes,
etc. to the document. Let start adding a picture to the document from an online
repository. From local repository, we can add an image by clicking on “Pictures”
button placed at the left of “Online Pictures” button.
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