Microsoft Word 2007

Getting Started

Menus

• These features below contain many of the functions that were in the menu of previous versions of Word.

– The Microsoft Office Button

– The Quick Access Toolbar

– The Ribbon

The Microsoft Office Button

• In the upper-left corner of the Word 2007 window is the Microsoft Office button.

Quick Access Toolbar

• To the right of the Microsoft Office button is the customizable Quick Access Toolbar containing the Undo, Redo, and Save commands.

Add Items to Quick Access Toolbar

• Right click on any item in the Office Button or the Ribbon

• Click on Add to Quick Access Toolbar and a shortcut will be added to the Quick Access Toolbar.

The RibbonThe Ribbon has three basic components:

• Tabs – Each represents an activity area.• Groups – Shows related items together.• Commands – Can be anything from a button, a drop-

down list, or a box to enter information.

Dialog Box Launcher• To view additional features within each group, click on the

arrow at the bottom right of each group.

The Ribbon Tabs

Each of the tabs contains the following tools:

Home: Clipboard, Fonts, Paragraph, Styles, & Editing.

Insert: Pages, Tables, Illustrations, Links, Header & Footer, Text, & Symbols

Page Layout: Themes, Page Setup, Page Background, Paragraph, Arrange

References: Footnote, Citation & Bibliography, Captions, & Index

Mailings: Create, Start Mail Merge, Write & Insert Fields, Preview Results

Review: Proofing, Comments, Tracking, Changes, Compare, Protect

View: Document Views, Show/Hide, Zoom, Window, Macros

Opening an Existing File

• Click the Microsoft Office Button and Click Open

• To change options in Word click on Word Options

To Change Word Options

Insert a Picture

•Select the picture.

•The Picture Tools tab appears. Click that tab.

Certain tabs appear only when you need them. To make changes to the picture you inserted:

Mini Toolbar

• To limit trips to the Ribbon use the common formatting items found in the Mini Toolbar.– Select your text and the Mini Toolbar

automatically appears

Document Views

• Print Layout: - view of the

document as it would appear when

printed. 

• Full Screen Reading:  - full view

length view of a document. 

• Web Layout:  - view of the

document as it would appear in a

web browser.

• Outline:  This is an outline form of

the document in the form of bullets.

• Draft:  This view does not display

pictures or layouts, just text.

To view a document in different forms, click the document views shortcuts at the bottom of the screen:

Click the View Tab on the Ribbon and click on the appropriate document view.

Page Margins & Orientations

• The page margins can be modified through the following steps:

• Click the Page Layout Tab on the Ribbon

• On the Page Setup Group, Click Margins

Page Orientation or Size of the Page

• Click the Page Layout Tab on the Ribbon

• On the Page Setup Group, Click the Orientation, Size, or Columns drop down menus and click the appropriate choice

Insert Header & Footer

• Click the Insert Tab on the Ribbon

• Click Header or Footer and Choose a style

The Header/Footer Design Tab will display on the Ribbon Choose the information that you would like to have in the header/footer

Saving a File

• Click the Microsoft Office Button and Click Save or Save As (remember, if you’re sending the document to a lab that does not have Office 2007, you will need to click the Office Button )

– click Save As

– Click Word 97-2003 Document

– Name your document