Microsoft Word learning tutorial

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When creating a new Microsoft Word document, you have the option of creating it from scratch, or basing it on a template. In another tutorials we will look at creating a Word document based on a template, but here we're going to look at starting from a clean slate. Tha advantage of starting from scratch is that you have more control and flexibility over how your document looks and how it is structured. Any styling and effects present in the document will be there because you put them there. The disadvantage is that it can take some time to create the look and feel you want, and in some cases you will be "reinventing the wheel". Word templates are designed to speed up the process of creating stunning and professional documents.

To get started, click the File tab > New. The following panel opens giving you many options (click on the image to enlarge it).



You'll notice that the top of the panel gives you the option to create a blank document, a blog post and also to create your document on a template or an existing document. Blank document is selected by default and that's the option we need, so click Create. A new blank document opens and is ready for you to start editing. As soon as you can, you should save the document and then periodically you should keep saving it so that you don't lose your changes if your PC crashes or there is a power cut.

A quick way to create a blank Word document is to use the keyboard shortcut ctrl-n.

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A big part of your document management work will involve creating new Microsoft Word documents. However, not every document you work on will be new; you will undoubtedly need to open existing Word documents, whether they have been created by you or someone else. Opening an existing Word document is easy, and there are several different ways of doing it.

The first method we'll look at is driven by the ribbon: with Word open, click the File tab > Open, and the usual File Open dialogue box that you are probably already familiar with opens.


Navigate to where the document is and either double click it or select it with a single click and then click Open. The document will then open in Word for you to edit. Be sure to save any changes you make by clicking ctrl-s. Alternatively, if you want to keep a copy of the original document as it looked before you made any changes, click the File tab > Save As, and then give the document a new name. The newly named document is the one you are now editing and the original document still exists with its original name. This is only one way (albeit a clumsy one!) of keeping track of changes made to a document, and is useful if you think there is a big risk of messing it up.

Another method of opening an existing Word document is to use the keyboard shortcut ctrl-o. You'll find that many keyboard shortcuts work universally across all Microsoft Office products and ctrl-o is one of them. After pressing ctrl-o, the File Open dialogue box that we met above opens. Simply follow the same steps to find and open your document.

The final method that we're going to look at for opening an existing Word document is one that you would use if you were navigating your documents using Windows Explorer. When you find the document you want to work on in Windows Explorer, right click on it > Open With > Microsoft Word. The document will open in Word, as described earlier.

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Missing In Action

The Microsoft Office Assistant was an Office feature designed to assist users using an interactive animated character who retrieved information from Office help content. In Microsoft Office for Windows, it was included in versions 97 to 2003. The default assistant in the English version was named Clippit, nicknamed Clippy (also short for paperclip).



Triggering The Office Assistant

The Office Assistant appeared when the program determined the user could be assisted with using Office wizards, searching help, or advising users on using Office features more effectively. For example, typing an address followed by "Dear" would cause Clippit to appear and say, "It looks like you're writing a letter. Would you like help?"

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Page Orientation In Word


There are two page orientations you can use in Microsoft Word: portrait and landscape. The image below shows the page layout for each one.

You will usually find that the portrait orientation satisfies your needs. For example, letters are usually created in portrait. Indeed, portrait is the default orientation for new documents. Sometimes, however, you need a wider document. For example, sometimes I need to display a table that has either too many columns or very wide columns, and portrait will make the table looked cramped. The landscape page orientation is much better here as it provides more horizontal space.

To change the layout in Word, click Page Layout > Orientation, and select either the portrait or landscape layout.


Note that if you were creating a table in portrait layout, and discovered that the page width wasn't wide enough, when you then change the layout to be landscape, the table does't change its width to accommodate the new space. You will have to either adjust the table's dimensions manually or delete the table and start again.

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Margins are the blanks areas of space around the edge of your Word document. Although text and other objects are usually inserted into the printable area within the margins, some items can actually be positioned in the margins (for example, page numbers, headers and footers.).

Microsoft Word offers you the facility to use default margin settings or to define your own margins.

To adjust the margins in your document, click Page Layout > Page Setup > Margins. The following thumbnail images represent the different defaults settings available to you. Simply click on one of the images to apply the appropriate margins.


The margins just applied will affect all pages in your document.

If you want to define your own margin settings, click on Custom Margins at the bottom.


The first tab is for margin settings, so that's where we need to make our changes. The top area of the window allows us to adjust the margin size for top, bottom, left and right of the page. There are also input boxes for you to specify a gutter margin. You would use a gutter margin to add extra space to the side or top margin of a document you plan to bind. A gutter margin ensures that text isn't obscured by the binding.