Microsoft Word Basics
A CCSO Student Free Computer Course
In this course participants will learn the basics of word processing within the environment of Microsoft Word. Today, we will be exploring a few of the basic aspects of Microsoft Word: opening documents, movement, saving and printing, editing, formatting, and copy & paste. Although experience with the Macintosh is helpful, this course is designed for individuals new to word processing with the Macintosh.
Computing and Communications Services Office
1304 West Springfield Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801
All comments, suggestions, and inquiries concerning this instructional material, this course, or any other courses that Computing and Communications Services Office offers may be directed to CCSO's User Training and Education Manager:
Lynnell Lacy
1120 Digital Computer Lab (DCL), MC-256
1304 West Springfield Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 244-1257
Microsoft Word is one of the most commonly used word processors, and can be considered a standard on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms. In addition to the usual word processing, Word can also be used to create and edit text documents with its included desktop publishing features.
- Getting Started
- Launching Word
- Quitting Word
- Working with Documents
- New vs. Open
- Entering Text
- Getting Around
- Save and Save As...
- Print and Print Preview
- Closing
- Text Editing
- Delete
- Insert
- Cut and Paste
- Copy and Paste
- Undo
- Character Formatting
- Font
- Case Change
- Paragraph Formatting
- Tabs & Indents
- Tabs
- Indents
- Document Format
- Page Orientation
- Document margins
Coded by The AIM Lab
August 10, 1995