Word Processor
Word Processor
Word Processor
A word Processor is an application software that
helps in the production of a document. It is a text editor
that allows us to type, edit and save text.
MICROSOFT WORD 2007 • Word processing simply means working with words on
a computer.
• It enables you to change the appearance of text after it
has been typed at the keyboard or entered into the
computer by another means
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Office button-It Provides access to menu commands in Word. Here is where you
will find commonly known features such as New :-Is used to create a Document
from Existing Document:-
Procedure as follows:-Click the Office Button New Create, or press <Ctrl>
+ <N>.
• Other features are:- Open, Save, Print and Recent Documents.
• Quick Access- It provides easy access to command you use most frequently. The
save, Undo, Redo/Repeat and quick print button appears on Quick Access toolbar
by default.
• Ribbon tabs- These tabs each contain a different set of options relevant to the tab
name. Ribbon is designed to help you quickly find the commands that you need to
complete a task There are three basic components to the Ribbon: 1. Commands 2.
Command Sets/Groups 3.Command Tabs.
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• Title Bar: Title Bar: A horizontal bar at the top of an active document. This bar
displays the name of the document and application. At the right end of the Title Bar
is the Minimize, Restore and Close buttons. • Zooms slider -A button that magnifies or reduces the contents in the
i. Minimize:-Put current window at the bottom of the desktop.
document window.
ii. Maximize/ Restore :-
Maximize :-It makes current window to fill the whole screen. • The Text Area- Is a working area where you can type and edit text,
Restore :– A maximized window will cover over all the other windows and icons insert pictures, graphics, tables e. t. c
on the desktop. The Restore button places the window back so that more than
one window can display at a time.
iii. Close button:- It close the window.
• Help icon -Click the question mark to see the Help screen.
• Rulers- To help you line up text and objects, Microsoft Office Word have a vertical
and a horizontal ruler. (If you can’t see the rulers, use the View ribbon to enable
them.)
• Scroll Bars- These are the bars along the right side and bottom of a document
window used to display hidden parts of the document.
• Status bar- A horizontal bar at the bottom of an active window that gives details
about the active document.such as number of pages and words, spelling & grammar
check.
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Undo Changes
TO CLOSE A DOCUMENT
• Microsoft word provides two important features
called the Undo and the Repeat or Redo. The Undo
• Click the office button and then click close. feature is used to undo the previous action and
• If you have changed your document since you last saved it, you will be the Repeat or Redo feature is used to repeat the
prompted to save it again. previous action.
• Click Yes to save, No to discard, or Cancel to close the dialogue box. • For example, if you mistakenly delete text, you can use
the Undo feature to recover it. In a similar way, if you
delete a character and you want to delete more
characters then you can use the Repeat operation.
• Ctrl + Z is shortcut for Undoes the previous action.
• Ctrl + Y is shortcut for Repeats the previous action.
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• Clipboard group command • PASTE:-allow you to duplicate content from file to a different section
Cut, Copy, Paste and format painter of the word document.
• CUT:- means to remove a text permanently from one location on • Procedure is as follows:-click the area of document where you want
another through pasting. to paste your text, then click the paste icon located on the home tab,
• Procedure is as follows:- position the mouse pointer at the start of then right click on new location and click paste.
the text and drag it to the end of the text to select it, the text will
appear highlighted to indicate that it is selected.
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• Step 2 − Click the Bullet Button triangle to display • Step 3 − If you are willing to create a list with
a list of bullets you want to assign to the list. You numbers, then click the Numbering
can select any of the bullet style available by Button triangle instead of the bullet button to
simply clicking over it. display a list of numbers you want to assign to the
list. You can select any of the numbering style
available by simply clicking over it.
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Indent Paragraphs
• As you know the margin settings determine the blank Cont.
space that appears on each side of a paragraph. You can
indent paragraphs in your document from the left margin,
the right margin, or both the margins. This chapter will
teach you how to indent your paragraphs with or without
the first line of the paragraphs.
• Left Indentation
• Left indentation means to move the left edge of the
paragraph inward towards the center of the paragraph. Let
us use the following steps to create left indentation.
• Step 1 − Click anywhere on the paragraph you want to
indent left and click the Increase Indent button available
on the Home tab or simply press the Ctrl + M keys. You
can click multiple times to create deeper indentation.
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• Step 2 − You can remove left indentation by clicking the Decrease
Indent button available on Home tab or simply press Ctrl + Shift+
M keys. You can click multiple times to remove deeper
indentation.
• You can also use the Paragraph Dialog Box to set left and right
indentations. We will see this dialog box in the last section of this
chapter.
• Right Indentation
• Right indentation means to move the right edge of the paragraph
inward towards the center of the paragraph. Let us use the
following steps to create right indentation.
• Step 1 − Click anywhere on the paragraph you want to indent and
then click on the Increase Right Indent spinner available on the
Page Layout tab. You can click on the spinner multiple times to
create deeper indentation. You can use the Left Indent spinners as
well to set left indentation from the same place.
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Line spacing
• Line spacing: is the distance between two lines Line spacing
in a Microsoft Word document. You can increase
or decrease this distance as per your requirement
by following a few simple steps. In this will explain
how to set the distance between two lines as well
as how to set the distance between two
paragraph.
• Spacing between Lines
• Select the sentence(s), you want
• On the tool bar select line spacing icon which has two
like arrows with one facing up and the other facing
down
• Choose either single, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5
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ALIGNMENT Justify
• What is alignment? • Justify – This will make your document have uniformity both at the
• alignment describes the position of the text on the line. left and right margin of the page.
• here are four types of paragraph alignment available in Microsoft • This create a clean look along the left and right side of the page
Word — left-aligned, center-aligned, rightaligned, and justified. • Select the text you want to use in the justify, and then use the justify
• Steps is as follows:- select text you want to align, then click on the alignment command to choose Justify alignment
center alignment to center the text or right or left alignment.
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• Shading :-Allows you to apply a background color on your text, take note
that shading does not change the font color but only the background color.
• Border:-Customize the borders of selected text or cells.
• Add Borders to Text
• Following are the simple steps to add border to any text or paragraph.
• Step 1 − Select the portion of text or paragraph to which you want to add
border. You can use any of the text selection method to select the
paragraph(s).
• Step 2 − Click the Border Button to display a list of options to put a border
around the selected text or paragraph. You can select any of the option
available by simply clicking over it.
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• Step 2 − Click the Page Border tab which will display a list of border
settings, styles and options whether this border should be applied to
the whole document or just one page or the first page.
• Step 3 − You can use the Preview section to disable or enable left,
right, top or bottom borders of the page. Follow the instruction given
in the preview section itself.
• Step 4 − You can customize your border by setting its color, width by
using different art available under the style section.
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INSERT TAB
• PAGES GROUP:
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• Almost all the good documents and books have an
attractive first page that includes the document title,
its subject, author and publisher name etc. This first
page is the Cover Page and Microsoft Word provides
an easy way to add a cover page.
• Add Cover Pages
• Following are the simple steps to add a cover page in a
Word document.
• Step 1 − Click the Insert tab, and click the Cover
Page button available in the Pages group. This will
display a list of Built-in Cover Pages as shown below.
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Cont. • Word inserts a page break and moves all text after the
page break onto a new page. You can also use the Ctrl
+ Enter keys to create a page break at the pointed
location.
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• Step 2 − Click the square representing the lower-right • Step 3 − This is an optional step that can be worked out if you want to have a fancy
table. Click the Table Styles button to display a gallery of table styles. When you
corner of your table, which will create an actual table move your mouse over any of the styles, it shows real time preview of your actual
in your document and Word goes in the table design table.
mode. The table design mode has many options to
work with as shown below.
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Delete a Row
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• If you click the Insert Above button, it will add a row just above the
selected row.
• Delete a Row
• The following steps will help you delete rows from a table of a Word
document.
• Step 1 − Click a row which you want to delete from the table and then
click the Layout tab; it will show the following screen.
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• Step 2 − Click the Border tab; this will display a list of border settings,
styles and options whether this border should be applied to the table
or text or paragraph.
• Step 3 − You can use the Preview section to disable or enable left,
right, top or bottom borders of the selected table or row or column.
Follow the given instructions in the preview section itself to design
the border you like.
• Step 4 − You can customize your border by setting its color, width by
using different width thickness available under the style section.
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Split a Cell
• Microsoft Word allows splitting a cell into multiple cells. Cont.
We will understand how to split a cell into multiple
smaller sub-cells.
• Split a Cell
• The following steps will help you split a cell into two sub-
cells of a table available in word document.
• Step 1 − Bring your mouse pointer position inside the cell
that has to be divided into multiple cells.
• Step 2 − Now click the Layout tab and then click the Split
Cells button; this will display a dialog box asking for the
number of rows and columns to be created from the
selected cell.
• Step 3 − Select the desired number of rows and columns
that have to go into the resultant cell and finally click
the OK button to apply the result.
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Merging Cells
Cont. • Microsoft Word allows the merging of two or more cells to
create one large cell. You will frequently need to merge
columns of the top row to create the title of the table. You can
merge cells either row-wise or column-wise, rather you cannot
merge cells diagonally. This chapter will teach you how to
merge multiple rows or columns.
• The following steps will help you merge table cells in a Word
document.
• Step 1 − Bring your mouse pointer position inside the first cell
that you want to merge. Now press the Shift key and click the
cells around the cell which you want to merge into the first
cell. This will highlight the cells which you click and they will
be ready to be merged.
• Step 2 − Now click the Layout tab and then click the Merge
Cells button which will merge all the selected cells.
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Resize a Table
• Microsoft Word allows to resize a table to make it smaller Cont.
and bigger as per your requirement.
• The following steps will help you resize a table available in
a Word document.
• Step 1 − Bring your mouse pointer over the table which
you want to resize. As soon as you bring your mouse
pointer inside the table, a small Cross Iconwill appear at
the top-left corner and a small Resize Icon will appear at
the bottom-right corner of the table as shown below.
• Step 2 − Bring the mouse pointer over the Resize Icon till
it changes to a diagonal doublesided arrow and this is the
time when you need to press the left mouse button and
keep holding the button while resizing the table. Drag the
table up to make it shorter or down to make it larger. You
can drag the table diagonally to simultaneously change
both the width and the height of the table.
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Adding Picture in Document
• The following steps will help you add an existing picture in your word
document. It is assumed that you already have a picture available on
your machine before you add this picture in your Word document.
• Step 1 − Click on your document where you want to add a picture.
• Step 2 − Click the Insert tab and then click the Picture option
available in illustrations group, which will display the Insert
Picture dialog box.
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• Step 3 − You can select a required picture using the Insert
Picture dialog box. When you will click the Insert button, selected
picture will be inserted in your document. You can play with your
inserted picture in different ways, like you can apply quick styles to
your picture, you can resize it, or you can change its color too. To try
it, just -lick your inserted image and Word will give you numerous
options available under the Format tab to format your inserted
graphics.
You can try yourself to insert other available graphics like Clipart, Different Shapes,
Charts and SmartArt or Screenshots.
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• Step 3 − Finally, you can type your information whatever you want to have in your
• Step 2 − Once you select any of the headers, it will be applied to the document in document header and once you are done, click Close Header and Footer to come
editable mode and the text in your document will appear dimmed, Header and
Footer buttons appear on the Ribbon and a Close Header and Footer button will out of the header insertion mode. You will see the final result as follows. You can
also appear at the top-right corner. follow a similar procedure to add footer in your document.
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• Step 3 − Finally, select any one of the page number styles. I selected the Accent Bar
• Step 2 − When you move your mouse pointer over the available options, it displays 1 style by clicking over it. You will be directed to the Page Footer modification
further styles of page numbers to be displayed. For example, when I take the mouse mode. Click the Close Header and Footer button to come out of the Footer Edit
pointer at the Bottom of Page option it displays the following list of styles. mode.
• You can format your page numbers using the Format Page Numbers option
available under the listed options.
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