Word conveniently makes available to you most of its features on individual tool bars.

To turn a tool bar view on or off:

Go to View>>Toolbars and check or uncheck the toolbar you wish to use.

The Standard and Formatting contain the most commonly used tools and should always be on.

Clicking Icons is the easiest and quickest way to get around.

Word offers two ways to create a new document:

From a blank document

From a Template

Templates are document models that help you to create documents that you produce on a regular basis.

The Normal.dot template (stored as the blank Document Template) contains standard margins and no formatting. (Note: If you click the new document icon it always uses this blank document template.)

By choosing New from the File menu you can choose from one of Word’s many other templates that may help you produce your document quicker.

Depending on what you have installed on your computer, you will have a variety of templates to choose from.

The templates are organized into categories which are accessible via tabs.

After choosing a template you will see on screen a preformatted document that you can fill in with your own information.

Templates can save you a great amount of time and help you to produce more professional looking documents.

It is possible to also create a custom template based on a document that you have created to be used as an outline for future documents of the same type.

To save a document as a template, just change the save as box to template and save it in the templates directory.

Deleting Text

Deleting text can be done in a variety of ways:

Backspace key

Delete key

Highlighting and use backspace or delete

Highlighting and choosing Cut from the edit menu

The clipboard is where you temporarily store copied or cut text or graphics.

Once it is stored in memory it is possible to paste the contents into another point in Word or into another Office document.

The Clipboard is a quick way to move things around and between documents.

The easiest way to add a graphic to your document is to use the Insert Picture function from the Insert Menu.

Office comes with stock clip art that you can use to enhance your documents.

There are other ways to get images int o your document including using a scanner or cutting and pasting from a paint or drawing program.

There are a number of ways to select text in Word includiing:

Clicking and dragging with the mouse

Double-click to select a whole word

Clicking on the side of a sentence to select the entire line

Select an entire sentence by holding down control and click anywhere in the sentence

Triple click to select an entire paragraph

Use Control A to select the entire document

To select large portions, click at the beginning and highlight a small portion, hold down the Shift Key and click at the end of the desired portion.

There are four possible ways to view a Word document:

Normal--basic typing and editing mode

Outline--outlining and organizing your document. Great for moving text in large documents.

Page Layout--shows you how the document would look if printed.

Master Document--use with long documents to help in dividing them into shorter documents.