Creating and Editing a Word DocumentWord Project 1

Document Window

•Document Window – your view of a portion of a document on the screen

•Print Layout View – shows the document on a mock sheet of paper

•Insertion Point – is a blinking vertical bar that indicates where text, graphics, and other items will be inserted

Office Button

•Office Button – is a central location for managing and sharing documents

•Menu – contains a list of commands•Submenu – is a list of additional

commands associated with a selected command

Office Button

Ribbon•Ribbon – is the control center in Word•Home tab – contains the more frequently

used commands•Active tab – is the tab currently

displayed on the Ribbon

Ribbon

Ribbon

•Contextual tabs – are menu options that appear only when certain objects are selected

•Gallery – is a set of choices arranged in a grid or in a list

•Live Preview – is a feature that allows you to point to a gallery choice and see its effects in the document without actually selecting the choice

Toolbars and Menus• Mini Toolbar

▫appears automatically ▫contains commands related to changing the

appearance of text• Shortcut Menu

▫appears when you right-click ▫ is a list of frequently used commands that relate to

an object• Quick Access Toolbar

▫Located by default above the Ribbon▫Provides easy access to frequently used commands

Formatting

•Formatting Mark – (nonprinting character) is a character that Word displays on the screen but is not visible on a printed document

•Wordwrap – allows you to type words in a paragraph continually without pressing the ENTER key at the end of each line

Formatting Mark

Formatting

• Paragraph Formatting – is the process of changing the appearance of a paragraph

• Character Formatting – is the process of changing the way characters (letter, numbers, symbols, etc.) appear in the document

Formatting• Font – defines the appearance and shape of the

characters• Font size – specifies the size of the characters

and is determined by a measurement system called points▫Point – is 1/72 of an inch

• Style – is a named group of formatting characteristics▫Normal style – default style in Word

Calibri, 11pt, 1” margins and 1.15 lines• Theme – is a set of unified formats for fonts,

colors, and graphics

Formatting

•Bulleted List – is a series of paragraphs, each beginning with a bullet character

•Bold – characters display somewhat thicker and darker

•Underlined – text prints with an underscore below each character

•Italicized – text has slanted appearance

Themes and Styles

•Quick Style – the predefined styles in the styles gallery

•Style set – consists of a group of frequently used styles formatted so they look pleasing together

•Color scheme – identifies 12 complimentary colors for text, background, accents, and links

•Font set – defines format for two fonts: one for headings and another for body text

Styles Gallery

Parts of a Flyer

•Headline – attention getting first line•Body Copy – all text between headline

and signature line•Signature line – contact information•Picture/Clip Art – visual

reference/attention•Bulleted list – emphasize key

information•Page Border – frame the information