Introduction to word

Which Word Processing software will you be using at school?

The word processing software that we use at school is Microsoft Word 2013.
Microsoft word is the most used word processing software.

What are some features of a Word Processor?
Some features of a word processor are the ability to create, store, print, type,
edit, insert graphic and save documents easily.

Identify the parts of Microsoft Word screen and understand what is on each
of the menus:
Home includes different font sizes, styles, and colors, it also includes the ability
to paste, cut and copy.

1) Insert includes the ability to insert pictures, a table, charts, shapes and
new pages. It also allows you to insert online videos, text boxes,
equations and symbols.

2) Design allows you to change the style of the text, add a page boarder
and add page color and watermarks.

3) Page Layout includes the option to change the position of an image and
change the orientation.

4) References enables you to insert citations and captions.
Mailings allows you to change the theme of the document to an envelope,
label or greetings.

5) Review helps check spelling and grammar. Translate and track changes.
View enables you to arrange, split and switch windows.
Keyboard Techniques





The keyboard offers many time saving techniques in moving around the
document. What happens when you press:

the Enter key? it creates a space between each paragraph.

the Home key? The home key takes you to the beginning of the document

the Delete key? The delete key discards the character ahead of the cursor's
position, moving all following characters one position "back" towards the freed
letterspace.

the Backspace key? The backspace key deletes a letter or the selected
amount of letters.

the End key? When the key is pressed, the window scrolls to the bottom.

the Page Up key? Page up will allow the document to move either upwards or
rightwards.

the Page Down key? Page up will allow the document to move either
downwards or leftwards

the key?

the key?

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the key?

the Ctrl + Home keys? The Ctrl + home keys takes you to the beginning of the
document

the Ctrl + End keys?




The keyboard also offers some shortcut keys. What happens when you press:

the Ctrl + s keys? Saves the page



the Ctrl + z keys? Undos the typing

the Ctrl + c keys? Copies the text

the Ctrl + x keys? Cuts the text

the Ctrl + v keys? Pastes the text

The keyboard also offers some shortcut keys. What happens when you press:

the Ctrl + s keys? Ctrl + s will save the page
the Ctrl + z keys? Ctrl + z will
the Ctrl + c keys? Ctrl + c will copy the page
the Ctrl + x keys? Ctrl + x will cut the page
the Ctrl + v keys? Ctrl + v will

Exercise - Selecting Techniques in a Word Processor
Create a new Word document
Save the document as "highlight" in your it_folio in your H:drive
Add the heading Selecting Techniques in a Word Processor
Copy and paste the following blue text into your document
Television has changed very little over the last forty years. While we have gone
from black and white to colour and the programs have become more
sophisticated, the medium is still the same. A television station broadcasts its
images and our receivers pick them up.
All this is about to change! A number of large companies and consortiums plan
to provide the Australian public with more choice. There is a suggestion of
delivering as many as 500 channels to people's homes using and advanced
fibre optic network. The viewer will have the power to choose the material she
/ he watches, to pause the program, slow it down or rewind it. Eventually we
will be able to choose the camera angles.
Some of the services of the information superhighway will provide are
interactive TV, video shopping, education services, video on demand and video
telephone calls.
Create a 2 column table similar to the one below
Try out the "actions" in the right-hand column on the text you have copied.
What happens to the text?
Complete the left column by describing what is selected
To select Do this - action
double click a word
click in the white space to the left of a line
drag up or down with the mouse to the left of the lines
hold down the CTRL key and click anywhere in a sentence
double click in the white space to the left of a paragraph
double click and drag in the white space to the left of the text
triple click in the white space to the left of the text