Melanie Meyers, Carramar PS, 2014 Menu Bars New menu tabs have simply made things easier to access – rather than following a pathway, for most things you should be able to click on a tab and see it. General Functionality – When you scroll over an item in the menu bar, Word will show a preview as an overlay on your document if available (This is available with selections like font, size, bullets, styles etc). This drop down arrow allows you to change the quick access menu (add or delete icons) Quick access menu Menu tabs rather than drop downs Protecting a document List of recent docs Create a new doc (templates) Printing options including ‘print preview’ Allows you to send through outlook or convert to a PDF
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Melanie Meyers, Carramar PS, 2014
Menu Bars New menu tabs have simply made things easier to access – rather than following a pathway, for most things you should be able to click on a tab and see it. General Functionality – When you scroll over an item in the menu bar, Word will show a preview as an overlay on your document if available (This is available with selections like font, size, bullets, styles etc).
This drop down arrow allows you
to change the quick access menu
(add or delete icons)
Quick access menu
Menu tabs rather
than drop downs
Protecting a
document
List of recent docs
Create a new doc
(templates)
Printing options
including ‘print
preview’
Allows you to send
through outlook or
convert to a PDF
Melanie Meyers, Carramar PS, 2014
Home Tab (This is where the main things are to do with text/font/styles etc)
Insert Tab (Think ‘anything you want to put onto the page’) When you use any feature of the ‘Insert’ tab, another tab will appear after ‘View’; This tab will allow you to modify your object you have inserted. Right clicking on the object and selecting format are still available options if you prefer this.
Cut, copy
and paste
Changing the text -
Font, size, bold, italics…
Bullets, numbering,
alignment, indenting
Style of writing (‘Normal’ which is the default creates paragraph spacing when
you enter down a line; Select ‘No Spacing’ if you do NOT want this feature).
Tables Pictures, clipart, shapes, charts… Header, footer Text Box, Word Art
Melanie Meyers, Carramar PS, 2014
Page Layout Tab (Think ‘how you page looks’)
References Tab (‘Academic’ writing)
Margins and orientation of page Borders and
backgrounds
Moving objects around (these will activate when
you select the object ie. Text boxes, images)
Melanie Meyers, Carramar PS, 2014
Mailings Tab
Review Tab (Editing features)
View Tab
Spelling and grammar checks, thesaurus, word count
Viewing your whole document Zoom and views of pages
Melanie Meyers, Carramar PS, 2014
Menu Bars
This drop down arrow allows you
to change the quick access menu
(add or delete icons)
Quick access menu
Menu tabs
Protecting a
document
List of recent docs
Create a new doc
(templates)
Printing options
including ‘print
preview’, scaling to
fit page
Allows you to send
through outlook or
convert to a PDF
Melanie Meyers, Carramar PS, 2014
Home Tab (This is where the main things are to do with text/font/styles etc)
Cut, copy
and paste
Changing the text -
Font, size, bold, italics…
Alignment, indenting, merge
cells, wrap text Formatting of cells
Changing number type
Inserting, deleting cells,
columns, rows
Summing, ordering
Melanie Meyers, Carramar PS, 2014
Insert Tab (Think ‘anything you want to put onto the page’)
Page Layout Tab (Think ‘how you page looks’)
Tables Pictures, clipart, shapes Insert general
equations or symbols
Text Box, Word Art
Margins, orientation of page, print area Data window you
can see Moving objects around
Charts
Printing headings
and gridlines
Melanie Meyers, Carramar PS, 2014
Formulas Tab
Data Tab
Melanie Meyers, Carramar PS, 2014
Review Tab (Editing features)
View Tab
Viewing your whole document Zoom and views of pages
