Click on   Start    
(which you will see at the bottom left of the screen)

A Start menu appears

Click on Programs  (top of the list) and drag the mouse pointer across the word Programs towards the right - a new menu appears to the right of the Start menu.

Click on Microsoft Word from Microsoft Office
You will see  . Once your mouse pointer is on this line it  will appear with a dark blue background  (see above). Now click the left-hand mouse button to load the program.

Information commonly found on a Word 2007 screen.

The top line (which is light blue) will show . This shows the name of the program and the filename. The name "Document2" is given to the file until you give it a different name.

For example if you were typing a Fractions Test and called it "Fractions Test" it would look like this: .

Menus

The next line shows various menu tabs.

When you click on a tab a menu is "opened". For example if you click on "Home" tab the menu that opens up contains sveral groups of commands such as Clipboard, Font, Paragraph, Styles and Editing.

All icons found within a group are all related to its name. For example the Font group contains Font size, Bold, Italic, Underline, Font colour (ie all icons that can format the Font in some manner)

Some options are not available on the menu tabs. To access these click on the Office button

A new menu appears with several options.

There is another option. Above the Menu tabs there is a quick access toolbar, which you can customise according to commands you use often. Just click the drop down arrow and click on your selection.

It is also possible to use keyboard short cuts instead of trying to find the icons.

Here are a few common keyboard short cuts:

To do this	Press
Create a nonbreaking space.	CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR
Create a nonbreaking hyphen.	CTRL+HYPHEN
Make letters bold.	CTRL+B
Make letters italic.	CTRL+I
Make letters underline.	CTRL+U
Decrease font size one value.	CTRL+SHIFT+<
Increase font size one value.	CTRL+SHIFT+>
Decrease font size 1 point.	CTRL+[
Increase font size 1 point.	CTRL+]
Remove paragraph or character formatting.	CTRL+SPACEBAR
Copy the selected text or object.	CTRL+C
Cut the selected text or object.	CTRL+X
Paste text or an object.	CTRL+V
Paste special	CTRL+ALT+V
Paste formatting only	CTRL+SHIFT+V
Undo the last action.	CTRL+Z
Redo the last action.	CTRL+Y
Open the Word Count dialog box.	CTRL+SHIFT+G

At the bottom of the screen you will see a status bar

This provides information about your position in the document (page number and number of words).

Printing a document

Click on the Office button
Click Print

You will see a pop-up screen that allows you to make several choices

If you have more than one printer connected / used by the computer you should check that the correct one is selected by looking at the Name: box.

Under Page range you have the option of printing the whole document (All), just the Current  Page, or selected Pages.

However, normally you will just click on the OK button to print the whole document.

There are two options for exiting Word.

Click on the X on the top right hand side of the screen.
or

On the Office button select Exit Word.