1. Using the mouse, put the arrow pointer
on the Apple icon at the top left of your screen. Press
the mouse button and hold it down. This will pull down the Apple menu. Continue to hold the mouse button
down.
2. Move the pointer down to Applications to highlight it, and then over to the
right-hand menu to Microsoft
Word and highlight
it. Release the button.
3. The main screen for Word appears. At the top of the screen are the
names of the Menus for Word, including the Apple menu.
Below the menus are the Toolbar
Buttons. We will discuss
them later. Below that is theTitle Bar, now showing "document
1" because you haven't named this document yet. Below the Title Bar is the Text Window, where you will write.
4. In the upper left-hand corner of the
text window you see the Insert
Pointer blinking.
Beside it you may see a paragraph symbol. You will also see another vertical
bar that looks like the letter I. That's the Mouse Pointer.
Enter Text
1. Type the sample paragraph below. Read
and follow the directions as you type it on the computer. Don't worry about
mistakes. I want you to make mistakes so I can show you how to correct them.
Delete/Insert
Letters
1. Your Insert Pointer is now blinking after the period at the end of the short
line. Use the left arrow key or the right arrow key (to the right of the
spacebar) to move the Pointer back until it's on the right side of the
"s" of "this."
2. Press the Delete key (upper right corner of the keyboard)
to remove the "s," and press it again to remove the "i."
Now type "e," and you have changed "this" to
"the."
3. Move the Mouse Pointer anywhere else in your text (using the
mouse) and click. See? That also moves the Insert Pointer. (Notice that the Mouse
Pointer changes
from an I to an arrow when you move it off the text
window.)
4. Now use the mouse and the four arrow
keys to delete errors and type in the corrections just as you did with
"this" and "the."
5. If you have omitted a letter somewhere,
just put the Insert
Pointer where the
letter should be, click once, and type the letter. Example: "pr ss"
becomes "press."
Save As
1. Put the mouse pointer on the word File at the top of the screen. Instead of just
clicking the mouse button, press it down and hold it. The File menu will appear.
2. Still holding the button down, move the
mouse downward (toward you) until you have highlighted the menu selection Save As. Then release the mouse button.
3. A Dialog Box like the one below will appear. Study its parts carefully
before going on to the next step.
4. The Dialog Box above says that you're using Macintosh HD the Hard Drive, and you've opened the Desktop on
your computer. Here is one way to save what you have written (your files):
You will always
save your files on the Desktop. To do so, click on the Desktop button. Click the Open button. Then type a name for your document
in the Save
Current Document As box.
Click on theSave button
to save your new file.
When you're
working on a long document, it's a good idea to Save every twenty minutes or so. This will make
sure that all your changes are saved in the same place that you specified when
you used the Save Aschoice.
5. After you have completed your document
and saved it on the desktop, you can send it as an attachment to yourself on
e-mail.
Select a
Word or a Group of Words to Delete, Replace, or Change
This time, instead of deleting a single
letter and then inserting a new one, you'll Delete or Replace a string of
letters, a whole word, or a group of words at once. First, select the words you
want to change.
1. Use the mouse and click to move the
Insert Pointer to the beginning or the end of "Word" in the first
line of your sample document.
2. Hold down the mouse button and drag the
mouse left or right to highlight the word "Word." (If you drag too
far, highlighting the spaces around the word, just drag in the opposite
direction to unselect before you release the mouse button.)
3. Don't delete "word." Instead,
just type "this program" and you'll see that the new words
automatically replace the old.
You could do many things after selecting
this word, but what if you change your mind?
No problem. Just click again or press an
arrow key to unselect the word.
You started a new paragraph just before
typing the last line of the sample document, but it doesn't look like a new
paragraph because it's not indented. You'll use the toolbar to move that line
around, but first you must select the whole line.
1. Move the Mouse Pointer to the left edge
of the screen, past the left margin of your document. You'll see that it becomes
an arrow pointing upward and to the right. (If you move it too far, it points
upward to the left.)
2. Position the arrow to the left of the
last line "Now type this short line," and click to select the whole
line. This highlights the whole line. Now you can make some changes to it.
Use the
Toolbar
1. The toolbar is the line of boxes and
symbols that appear across the top of the computer screen. You may recognize
the picture of a file folder, scissors, a paint brush, and so forth. If the
toolbar does not appear at the top of the screen, pull down the View menu and select Toolbars. In the Toolbars dialog box, click standard and then OK
2. In number 2 above, you highlighted the
line "Now type this short line."
3. Center the highlighted line in your
sample document by clicking on the Center Justify box as shown below.
That's how to center the title of a story,
essay, or report.
4. Left Justify the line again by clicking
on the Left-Justify box once more and then unselect the line
by clicking again.
5. Now highlight the word "Word"
in line 3 of the sample document. Move the mouse pointer up to the I in the toolbar and click it. This changes
the type to italics. Now click B and U.
You see that the type becomes boldfaced and underlined. Practice changing other
words in the document.
Add a Title
1. Place the mouse pointer at the
beginning of your sample document and click once. You have positioned the
Insert Pointer at the beginning of the document.
2. Now press RETURN. This pushes the
document down one line and gives you space to write your title.
3. Put the mouse pointer up one line and
click once.
4. Type "Sample Document."
5. Move the mouse pointer to the beginning
of your title and click once. Then, hold down the mouse button to highlight the
title.
5. Center the highlighted title in your
sample document by clicking on the Center Justify box in the toolbar.
Indent Every
Paragraph with the Tab key
1. We use the tab key at the top left side
of the computer keyboard to indent paragraphs and to make simple tables.
Normally, you push the tab key once before you begin to type each paragraph.
2. If the ruler does not appear at the top
of your document, pull down the View menu and select Ruler. The ruler shows you how wide the page is and where the
margins are.
2. Tabs are already set at every half-inch
on the ruler scale.
3. Place the Insert pointer at the
beginning of the first line of your document and press the tab key. You have
indented your first paragraph.
4. Place the Insert pointer at the
beginning of the short line and press the tab key. You have indented your second
paragraph.
Change the
Size of the Type
To change the font size of all of your
sample document
1. Pull down the Edit menu and choose Select All. All of your document will be
highlighted.
2. Pull down the font size arrow on the
tool bar and highlight the font size you want. The usual size is 12.
3. Your typing will change size. If you
don't like it, you can choose another size immediately. Then click the mouse
button so that the highlighting disappears. This is important so that you don't
make other changes by mistake.
To change the size of the type of only one
or two words,
1. Use the mouse to highlight those words
by dragging the pointer across the words.
2. Pull down the size arrow on the tool
bar and highlight the size you want. The usual size is 12.
3. Your typing will change size. Then,
click the mouse button so that the highlighting disappears. Save to keep what you have chosen.
Change the
Font Style
1. Pull down the Edit menu and choose Select All. All of your document will be
highlighted, or you can highlight only a word or two by highlighting them with
the mouse pointer.
2. Pull down the font arrow on the tool
bar and choose a different font. If you don't like it, you can change
immediately to another font. Keep changing until you find one you like.
3. Remember to click the mouse button so
that the highlighting disappears. Then Save to
keep what you have chosen.
Cut and
Paste to Move Sentences and Paragraphs Around
When you rewrite your papers, it is not
necessary to retype everything when you want to move sentences and paragraphs
around. Here is how to move one line or a whole paragraph.
1. Move the Mouse Pointer to the left edge
of the screen, past the left margin of your document. You'll see that it
becomes an arrow pointing upward and to the right. (If you move it too far, it
points upward to the left.)
2. Position the arrow to the left of the
last line of your sample document, and click to select the whole line. This
highlights the whole line.
3. Pull down the Edit menu and choose Cut. This removes the line from the document temporarily.
4. Move the Mouse Pointer to the beginning
of your sample document and click once. The Insert Pointer is now at the
beginning of your sample document.
5. Pull down the Edit menu again with the mouse pointer and
select Paste. The line you cut will appear at the
beginning of your sample document. Don't forget to save your changes.
Change the
Space between the Lines
When you write papers, your teachers will
probably ask you to double-space them. Here is how to change the spacing
between the lines.
1. Highlight all of the sample document.
Hold down the mouse button and drag the mouse from the top of the sample
document to the bottom.
2. Pull down the Format menu at the top of the screen.
3. Choose Paragraph.
4. When the screen changes, find Line Spacing. Put the mouse pointer on the down arrow
and hold the mouse button down. Choose Double .
5. Click OK.
6. Save your
changes.
Save the
File Once More before You Print
1. You should always make sure you have
saved your work on your desktop!
2. Pull down the File menu and select Save As the last time you save. Click the Desktop button and the file will be saved with the
name you specified when you used the Save As procedure
first. This is important because if you make a mistake and save on the
harddrive of a computer in a public computer lab, you will lose your document
the next time someone restarts the computer.
Print Your
Work
Pull down the File menu and select Print. The screen will change to a dialog box that shows how
many copies you will print. It says 1 now. Click the Print button and your printer will print your
document.
Quit Microsoft
Word
Close your document by clicking in the
small box in the upper left hand corner of your document. (If you forget to
save your file before quitting, Word will
remind you to do so.)
Pull down the File menu and select Quit. You'll return to the Desktop.
Open an
Existing File
When you start again another day, first
find a copy of the document you sent to yourself on e-mail and put it on the
desktop. Open Microsoft
Word and then
open the document.
Conclusion
You have just finished a very basic
tutorial in usingMicrosoft Word. There are many other things you
can do with this amazing program. The Question Mark icon at the extreme top
right of your screen is the Help menu. When you have a question about the
icons on the screen, pull down the Help menu
and choose Show
Balloons, and when you
have a question about how to do something with Microsoft Word, choose Microsoft Word Help.
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