Lesson 1 of Beginners: Microsoft Office Word 2007

1. Microsoft Office Word 2007
for Beginners
An Overview
Samantha TerBeest
Willmar Public Library

2. Lesson Plan for Today
 Getting Started
 The Ribbon
 The Office Button
 Opening a Document
 Viewing a Document
 Moving Around in a Document
 Help

3. Getting Started
 Open Microsoft Office Word from the Desktop
 Double-Click this Icon:
 This Will Open Microsoft Office Word

4. Getting Started Continued…
 The Title Bar Displays the Name of the Document
 When You Open Word the Document will Always be
Called “Document1”
 The Office Button is at the Top Left
 We Will talk about this button later
 The Top Right Buttons are:
Minimize, Maximize, and Close Buttons
 Ribbon – Next from Top
 Contains Important Groups Divided into Tabs

5. What it All Looks Like…
Close
Office Button Title Bar Minimize
Minimize
Ribbon

6. The Ribbon
 What is it?
 Displays commonly used commands
 On the top of the ribbon are 7 basic Tabs/Activity
Areas
 Home
 Insert
 Page Layout
 Reference
 Mailings
 Review
 View
 Within the tabs are little boxes called Groups
 Some have Galleries when this appears:
 Each Group has a Dialog Box Launcher which offers even
more options

7. The Home Tab
 The most commonly used commands for
formatting and manipulating text
The Home Tab
Activity Area
Group
A Gallery
Dialog Box Launcher

8. The Insert Tab
 Commands for doing all the various types of
inserting such as pictures, tables, date and
time, symbols & many other options

9. Page Layout Tab
 The options for arranging the overall appearance
of the document

10. The Reference Tab
 The cross-referencing, indexing and controlling
various references is done here.

11. The Mailings Tab
 Contains the mail merge and the printing of
envelopes and labels commands.

12. The Review Tab
 Spelling and grammar checking are at home here
and some other powerful controls for
commenting, tracking, and comparing
documents.

13. The View Tab
 Controls how the document is displayed on the
screen.

14. The Office Button

15. The Office Button
 Located in the upper left-hand corner
 Has Several Commands
 New
 Used for starting a new document
 Can choose a template for the different types of documents
 Open
 Used to Open a Document
 Or to load one into Word
 Save
 Used to store the document on the hard drive of the
computer

16. The Office Button, Cont.
 Commands, Cont.
 Save As
 Allow you to save a document by a specified name or in a
specified folder
 Print
 Sends documents to the printer
 Prepare, Send, and Publish
 Powerful Commands that offer various options
 Not Covered in this course
 Close
 Another Way to Close your document

17. Opening a Document
 There are Two ways of Opening a Document
 Using “Open” Under the Office Button
 Clicking “Open” in the upper left-hand pane
 You must know where the file is located and what
the file is called.

18. Opening a Document

19. Viewing a Document
 There are Four Ways to View a Document:
 Dragging the Borders
 Makes Screen Larger or Smaller
 Using the Zoom Controls
 Makes page bigger or smaller
 Using the “Page Up”/ “Page Down” Keyboard
buttons
 Moves Page to the next “screen’s worth” of text
 Using the “Next Page”/ “Previous Page” Buttons
 Moves to the next page or the previous page

20. Viewing a Document

21. Moving Around in a Document

22. Help
 Use the Help Button when you need assistance
or advice
 Type in a keyword/words

23. The End
 Created with the Help of:
 Senior Academy. (2008). Word 2007 Basics: An
Introduction to Microsoft Office Word 2007. Ludwig
Keck.