Microsoft Word functions and toolbars

· Formatting Toolbar: Changing font style, size, B, I, U, alignment

· Numbered List/Bulleted List

o To change bullets: select list – Format Bullets and Numbering – Customize – Bullet

· Highlighter Marker and Font Color

· Other important standard toolbars buttons:

o Quick save

o Undo Arrow

o Print Preview

o Cut/Copy/Paste

§ Four steps to Cut/Copy/Paste

· 1. Select what you want copied

· 2. Copy it. ( Edit- Copy, Copy button, or Control-C)

· 3. Move your cursor to the new place you want it to go.

· 4. Paste it. (Edit – Paste, Paste button, or Control–V)

PICTURES

· Clip Art = Insert – Picture – Clip Art

· Picture off disk = Insert – Picture – From File ( then open the drive where the image is saved, like “3 ½ Floppy A”)

· Word Art = Insert – Picture – Word Art

o For all of these, to resize you need to click on the picture once to see your “handles”, point to a handle to get a double-headed arrow, and click and drag to resize.

o Clip Art and pictures off a disk can only be left-aligned, centered, or right-aligned; Word Art can be moved anywhere by getting 4 arrows and dragging.

· Word Art Toolbar

***Remember if you don’t see a toolbar that you want, go to View- Toolbars and click on the one you want to see.

· New Word Art

· Edit Text

· Change the style from the gallery

· Format the object

· Change the Word Art Shape

· Free Rotate

· Word Wrapping

· Same height- caps and no caps

· Vertical writing

· Alignment

· Character Spacing

· Drawing Toolbar (bottom of screen)

o Autoshapes

o Lines and Arrows

o Rectangles or Circles

o Text Boxes

o Word Art, again

o Clip Art, again

o Fill Bucket, down-pointing triangle next to it has more colors as well as Fill Effects: remember to click on the picture once first that you want to “fill”

o Paintbrush changes the outline color of the object you have selected

o Font color, again

o Thickness of lines

o Style of lines, Styles of Arrows

o Shadows and 3 D