Microsoft Word Exercise 1: Introduction to

Word
In this exercise you will practice:
Opening and closing Microsoft
Word
Navigating the Ribbon, the
Home tab and diferent Groups
Highlighting text with the
mouse or e!board
"sing common e!board e!s
"sing #op! and $aste
commands
#hanging %ont and %ont &i'e
Maing text (old, )talic, and
"nderlined
1. Double-click the Microsoft Word *+,+ icon on the destop- )t is a blue
W-
2. Microsoft Word should open- It should look like this:
. .!pe: !he "uick brown fox #u$ped o%er the la&y do'.
(. )lick and Dra' over the sentence from right
to left- .his is called hi'hli'htin' or
selecting text- When the sentence is
highlighted, tae !our /nger of the mouse-
*. )lick anywhere on the pa'e to re$o%e the hi'hli'htin'- $ractice highlighting
with the mouse again- 0ou can start highlighting at the beginning or end of the
sentence-
+. 0ou can also highlight text with the e!board- #lic before: !he "uick brown, Hold
down the -hift key on the keyboard- $ress the ri'ht arrow
key until all the letters are highlighted-
.. On the /o$e tab in the )lipboard 'roup, clic the )opy
co$$and- .he cop! command tells the computer to
remember the text !ou have highlighted so !ou can use it
again-
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0. #lic after: ,the la&y do'. to put the cursor there, and press Enter on the
e!board- .he cursor will move down below the sentence-
1. On the /o$e tab in the )lipboard 'roup, clic the 2aste
co$$and- 1 second sentence should appear- .he paste
command tells the computer to put the text !ou copied where
the cursor is-
13. On the /o$e tab in the Editin' 'roup4 clic
-elect, and then clic -elect 5ll from the list that
appears- .his is the best wa! to highlight all the words
on the page-
11. #lic the )opy co$$and to cop! both
sentences-
12. #lic in the white space below the sentences to
put !our cursor there-
1. #lic the 2aste co$$and- .wo more sentences should appear-
1(. #lic -elect in the Editin' 'roup, and then
clic -elect 5ll to highlight the four sentences-
1*. #lic the )opy co$$and to cop! all the
sentences-
1+. #lic in the white space below the sentences to
put !our cursor there-
1.. #lic the 2aste co$$and- %our more
sentences should appear- 0our document should
loo lie this2
10. /i'hli'ht the 2
nd
sentence. 0ou can do this
b! clicing and dragging with the mouse or b!
pressing and holding the shift e! on the
e!board and using the arrow e!s-
11. On the /o$e tab in the 6ont 'roup clic the
arrow next to )alibri to open the %ont dropdown
menu- .his shows a list of diferent fonts-
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23. )n the %ont dropdown menu, clic on (erlin &ans %(. 0ou will need to scroll down
the list to /nd it- .he fonts are listed in alphabetical order-
21. #lic an!where on the document to clear the highlighting, and look at the way
the second sentence chan'ed- )t loos diferent because !ou changed the %ont-
22. /i'hli'ht the
rd
sentence.
2. On the /o$e tab in the 6ont 'roup clic the arrow next to 11 to open the %ont
&i'e dropdown menu- .his shows a list of font si'es-
2(. )n the %ont &i'e dropdown menu, clic on 2( from the list- #lic an!where to clear
the highlighting, and loo at the wa! the third sentence changed- .he text is bigger,
because !ou changed the %ont &i'e-
2*. /i'hli'ht the (
th
sentence.
2+. On the /o$e tab in the 6ont 'roup4 clic the
7old co$$and- .his will mae the text a little wider-
2.. /i'hli'ht the *
th
sentence.
20. On the /o$e tab in the 6ont 'roup4 clic the
Italic co$$and. .his will mae the text slant to the
right-
21. /i'hli'ht the +
th
sentence.
3. On the /o$e tab in the 6ont 'roup4 clic the
8nderline co$$and. .his will mae a line appear
under the text-
1. #lic at the end of the 0
th
sentence to put !our cursor there-
2. 2ress the 7ackspace key on the e!board until the sentence disappears- .he
(acspace e! erases text to the left of the cursor-
. #lic at the be'innin' of the .
th
sentence to put !our cursor there-
(. 2ress the Delete
key on the e!board
until the sentence
disappears- .he
3elete e! erases text
to the right of the
cursor-
*. Have the instructor
chec !our wor- 0our
document should loo
lie this2
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+. )lick the 9 in the top right corner of the window to close Microsoft Word-
.. 1 box will appear to as2 3o !ou want to
save changes !ou made to 3ocument,4 #lic
Don:t -a%e.
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