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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
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 programme.
Information commonly found
on a Word 97 screen.
The top line (which is dark blue) will show
 .
This shows the name of the programme and the filename. The
name "Document1" 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 Test1t" it would look
like this:  .
The next line shows various menu options.
When you click on a word a
menu is "pulled down". For example if you click
on "File" the File Menu will pull down
as follows:
Notice
how some options in the file menu correspond with icons on
the toolbar below the menus (icons to the left of the words).
For example, to open a file you could click on File
Open, or you could click on the yellow icon
in the toolbar that does the same thing. You have a
choice of which method to use.
There is another option. You will notice
on the right-hand side of the file menu that there are keyboard
shortcuts that perform certain functions. For instance, if
you wanted to open a file you could use the keyboard shortcut
instead of the file menu or the icon (see previous paragraph).
Notice that the keyboard option is Ctrl-O. In
other words, you press the Ctrl key,
keep it pressed down and with the other hand you press the
O key once.
Icons
The standard toolbar looks
like this:
These are various tools that
you could use. All offer shorter ways of doing things than
using one of the menu options (as has been explained in the
previous paragraph). Place the mouse pointer over these buttons
(also known as icons) and you will see what they are used
for.
Below the standard toolbar is the formatting
toolbar.
These icons are tools that
are used to change the appearance of text on the page.
You type your document in the big white space on the
screen.
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At the bottom of the screen you will see
a status bar
This provides information about your position
in the document (page number, line number etc).
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