Getting Started With MS Word 2007

Introduction to MS Word 2007

MS Word 2007 is a part of MS Office pakage of Microsoft. MS Word is the mostly used Word Processor and the best one. This package is available in open market for people to use it. People around the world love to work with it. As word processing is the most common use of a computer, so MS Word is most important among MS Office applications.

Getting Familiar with MS Word 2007 Environment

Menus

When you begin to explore Word 2007, you will notice that there are three features that you should remember as you work within Word 2007.

The Microsoft Office Button, The Quick Access Toolbar and the Ribbon.

These three features contain many of the functions that were in the menu of previous versions of MS Word.

The functions of these three features are explored below.

The Office Button

The Office button performs many of the functions that were located in the File Menu of older versions of MS Word. This button allows you to create a new document, open an existing document, save the original file or save a copy, print, send through email or fax, publish th document of close.

The Ribbon

The Ribbonis the panel at the top portion of the document. It has seven tabs: Home, Insert, Page Layout, References, Mailings, Review, and View that contain many new and existing features of MS Word. Each tab is divided into groups. The groups are logical collections of features designed to perform functions that you will utilize to develope or edit your document. commonly used features are displayed on the Ribbon, to view additional features withing each group, click on the arrow at the bottom right of each group.

Quick Access Toolbar

The Quick Access Toolbar is a customizable toolbar that contains commands that may want to use. You can place the toolbar above or below the ribbon.

You can also add items to the Quick Access Toolbar. Just right click on any item in the Office Button or the Ribbon and click on Add to Quick Access Toolbar and a shortcut will be added to the Quick Access Toolbar.