Introduction to Word 2007
OS must be WinXP or later
The Ribbon (Fluent User Interface)
· Tabs
· more task oriented according to MS
· double click tabs to temporarily hide
· press ALT to display the Key Tip badges
Contextual Tabs - certain tabs appear only when you need them (pictures, tables, drawings, diagrams and charts)
-Groups
breaks task into sub-tasks.
dialog Box Launcher
-Commands
Format Painter (highlights source formatting, double click FP then chose the target text)
live visual previews, and pre-defined galleries of styles, table formats and other content
Galleries provide a more effective way to format documents by showing the results of a command, and Live Preview augments the goodness of Galleries by allowing you see what a command will do to your document without actually doing anything to you document. You don’t have to apply the changes and undo them to see what it will look like.
Styles - ready-made sets of formatting that you can use to change font, font size, or font color with one click.
Themes (docx only) - Similar to style but more comprehensive and spans across other programs such as PowerPoint – Theme colors, fonts (heading and body), effects for charts and graphics (fills and shades).
Home Ribbon has all your formatting options.
Ribbon not design to be customizable like previous versions.
The Quick Access Toolbar
· Upper left corner allows quick access to frequent commands
· customizable but don't overdo because it would defeat the purpose
The Microsoft Office Button
· similar to the old file menu
The Mini-Toolbar
· highlight text and it shows grayed but you can still select it.
· quicker access to some commonly used formatting.
The Docx Format
· smaller size (~50%) and more secure thus less susceptible to macro viruses
· older word formats can be up converted
· can be viewed on Office 2000 and beyond if latest SP is installed (converter download prompted)
Create, edit, save and print a document
· Multitude of templates now offered
· Different views – Print layout (wysiwyg), Full-Screen Reading (easier on the eyes for proofing), Draft (allows you to see section breaks in large documents and hides headers, footers, background images and other graphics allowing you to focus on the text)
· Formatting a small versus a large document
· Use sections for different headers, page size ,orientation, columns page borders and margins
· Single, double and triple clicks results in different selections or you can use the shift key.
· Click and type for justification
· Red underline This indicates either a possible spelling error or that Word doesn't recognize a word, such as a proper name or place. If you type a word that is correctly spelled, but Word doesn't recognize it, you can add it to Word's dictionary so that it is not underlined in the future. You'll see how in the practice.
Green underline Word thinks that grammar should be revised.
Blue underline A word is spelled correctly but does not seem to be the correct word for the sentence. For example, you type "too," but the word should be "to."
· Auto Text and Auto correct
· Show formatting marks
· Work Count (Status bar)
· Right click status bar to add or remove shortcuts
Notes:
Microsoft.com/office for more practice
Reverting to Words classic interface is not possible (third party shareware can revert)
Live preview of fonts and styles
Contextual spelling check now available