This
is a Word
2003 Tutorial, from Durham University, that will get you started using most
important fundamental features of Word. It teaches you how to work with
Word using the following: screen components, designing your Word
document, printing, editing text, formatting text and paragraphs, page
formatting, navigating larger documents, search and replace, spell
checking, document views, bulleted lists, and tables. You do not need
to know how to use a word processor to use this Word
tutorial. (64 pages, 760kb, pdf format)
Introduction
to Microsoft Word 2003
Contents
1
Introduction
1.1 The aim of this document
1.2 Before you begin
2 Starting up Word
3
The Word screen
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Using the help facilities
3.2.1 Office Assistant
3.3 The screen components
3.3.1 The Menu Bar
3.3.2 The
Standard Toolbar
3.3.3 The
Formatting Toolbar
3.3.4 The
horizontal ruler
3.3.5 The
status bar
3.4 The mouse pointer in Word
3.5 Giving commands
4 Creating your first
Word document
4.1 Entering text
4.2 Saving a document to disk
4.3 Closing the
document
4.4 Exiting Word
4.5
Opening an existing document
5 Design
decisions about your document
5.1 Document
presentation
5.1.1 Punctuation
5.1.2 Font style and size
5.1.3
Paragraph spacing and line indents
5.2 Decisions
about printing
5.2.1 Selecting
the printer
5.2.2 Paper size
and orientation
6 Editing text
6.1 Insert and Overtype modes
6.2 Selecting text
6.2.1 Deleting text
6.2.2
Moving text
6.2.3 Copying text
6.3 Word count
6.4 Saving as you work
7
Moving around a larger document
7.1 By direction /
location
7.2 By content — the Find command
8
Formatting text
8.1 Character formatting
8.1.1 Bold, italic and underlined text
8.1.2 Changing fonts and character size
8.2
Paragraph formatting
Guide 12:
An Introduction to Microsoft Word
8.2.1 Aligning text
8.2.2 Adding space before and after paragraphs
8.2.3 Indenting paragraphs
8.2.4 Changing line spacing
9
Completing your document
9.1 Search and
Replace
9.2 Using the spellchecker
9.3 Inserting and deleting page numbers
9.4 Saving your work
10 Printing your document
10.1 Print preview
10.2 Printing
11
Safeguarding your work
11.1 File size
11.2 Saving your work to disk
11.3
Backing up your disks
11.4 Automatic Save
option
11.5 Working with other file types
11.5.1 Other word processing applications
11.5.2 Other versions of Word for Windows
12 Page formatting
12.1 Inserting page breaks
12.2 Keeping
paragraphs together
12.3 Headers and
Footers
12.4 Margins
13
Miscellaneous topics
13.1 Inserting
simple graphics
13.2 Inserting special
characters
13.3 Quick move and copy
13.4 Formatting paragraphs using the ruler
13.5 Inserting fields (such as dates)
13.6 Inserting a text watermark
13.7
Automatic correction functions
13.7.1 AutoCorrect tab
13.7.2 AutoFormat As You Type tab
13.7.3 AutoText tab
13.7.4 AutoFormat tab
14 Different views on your document
14.1 Print layout view
14.2 Normal view
14.3 Web layout view
14.4 Zoom
14.5 Outline view
14.6 Document Map
15
Working with multiple windows and documents
15.1 Splitting the document window
15.2
Working with multiple documents
15.3
Ending your session
16 Further information about Word
16.1 Creating numbered and bulleted lists
16.2
Creating tables
16.3 Creating and editing footnotes
16.4 Using styles and templates
16.5 Using the
Equation Editor
16.6 Using Microsoft Graph
16.7 Using AutoText
16.8 Using the mail merge
facilities
16.9 Importing from other applications
16.10 Manuals and other documents
Appendix A: Standard Toolbar
Appendix
B: Formatting Toolbar
Appendix C: Quick key commands