WORD - Wilmington University

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Table of Contents

CREATE A NEW DOCUMENT ............................................................................................... 1

Opening an Existing Document ........................................................................................ 1 Saving a Document ........................................................................................................ 2 Renaming Documents ..................................................................................................... 2 Working on Multiple Documents....................................................................................... 3 Document Views ............................................................................................................ 3 Close a Document .......................................................................................................... 3

EDITING A DOCUMENT ...................................................................................................... 4

Typing and inserting Text................................................................................................ 4 Selecting Text ................................................................................................................ 4 Inserting Additional Text ................................................................................................. 4 Rearranging Blocks of Text.............................................................................................. 5 Deleting Blocks of Text ................................................................................................... 6 Search and Replace Text................................................................................................. 6 Undo Changes................................................................................................................ 6

FORMATTING TEXT............................................................................................................ 6

Styles ............................................................................................................................ 6 Change Font Typeface and Size ....................................................................................... 7 Font Styles and Effects ................................................................................................... 8 Change Text Color .......................................................................................................... 8 Highlight Text ................................................................................................................ 8 Copy Formatting............................................................................................................. 9 Clear Formatting ............................................................................................................ 9

FORMATTING PARAGRAPHS ..............................................................................................10

Change Paragraph Alignment .........................................................................................10 Indent Paragraphs.........................................................................................................10 Add Borders and Shading ...............................................................................................12 Apply Styles ..................................................................................................................12 Create Links ..................................................................................................................13 Change Spacing Between Paragraphs and Lines ...............................................................13

STYLES ............................................................................................................................14

Apply Styles ..................................................................................................................14 Creating New Styles.......................................................................................................15 Style Inspector ..............................................................................................................17

TABLES ............................................................................................................................17

Create a Table ..............................................................................................................17 Enter Data in a Table.....................................................................................................18 Modify the Table Structure and Format a Table ................................................................18

GRAPHICS ........................................................................................................................20

Symbols and Special Characters......................................................................................20

Equations .....................................................................................................................20 Illustrations, Pictures, and SmartArt ................................................................................21 Resize Graphics .............................................................................................................23 Watermarks ..................................................................................................................24

PROOFREADING A DOCUMENT ..........................................................................................25

Spelling and Grammar ...................................................................................................25 Thesaurus .....................................................................................................................26 Customize AutoCorrect...................................................................................................27 Create a New Default Dictionary .....................................................................................28 Check Word Count.........................................................................................................29

MAIL MERGE WIZARD .......................................................................................................30

Selecting a Template .....................................................................................................31 Selecting Recipients .......................................................................................................33 Inserting Merge Fields ...................................................................................................36 Matching Fields .............................................................................................................37 Previewing Results.........................................................................................................38 Completing the Merge....................................................................................................39 Saving ..........................................................................................................................41

PAGE FORMATTING ..........................................................................................................42

Modify Page Margins and Orientations.............................................................................42 Apply a Page Border and Color .......................................................................................43 Insert Common Header and Footer Information ...............................................................44 Create a Page Break ......................................................................................................44

Insert a Cover Page ...................................................................................................45 Insert a Blank Page....................................................................................................46

TABLE OF CONTENT .........................................................................................................47

Mark Table of Contents Entries .......................................................................................47

To Use Built-In Heading Styles ....................................................................................47 To Mark Individual Entries: .........................................................................................48 Create a Table of Contents .........................................................................................48 Update Table of Contents ...........................................................................................49 Delete Table of Contents ............................................................................................50

LISTS ...............................................................................................................................50

Bulleted and Numbered Lists ..........................................................................................50 Nested Lists ..................................................................................................................51 Formatting Lists ............................................................................................................51

REFERENCES AND CITATIONS ...........................................................................................52

Style ............................................................................................................................52 Citations .......................................................................................................................53 Placeholders .................................................................................................................54 Manage Sources ............................................................................................................54 Bibliography ..................................................................................................................55 Insert Footnote .............................................................................................................56

CREATE A NEW DOCUMENT

There are several ways to create new documents, open existing documents, and save documents in Word:

Click the Microsoft Office Button

and Click New or

Press CTRL+N (Depress the CTRL key while pressing the "N") on the keyboard

You will notice that when you click on the Microsoft Office Button and Click New, you have many choices about the types of documents you can create. If you wish to start from a blank document, click Blank. If you wish to start from a template you can browse through your choices on the left, see the choices on center screen, and preview the selection on the right screen.

Opening an Existing Document

Click the Microsoft Office Button

and Click Open, or

Press CTRL+O (Depress the CTRL key while pressing the "O") on the keyboard,

or

If you have recently used the document you can click the Microsoft Office

Button and click the name of the document in the Recent Documents section

of the window Insert picture of recent docs

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