Microsoft Office Word 2007Lesson 5: More on the Home TabSamantha TerBeestWillmar Public Library

Overview

•More on Bullet & Numbered Lists•About Styles & Themes•How to Find & Replace Text

Open Document - from Recent Lists

•You can Open Recently Used Documents 2 Different Ways:▫Clicking the Office Button – list appears on

the right side of the Pane▫Clicking the Windows/Start Button &

Selecting “Recent Items”

Exercise - Part 1• Click the Start Button at the bottom of the Desktop Screen.

Type “Libraries” in the search bar and click Enter. Choose Documents from the menu.

• Double-click the WB_PracticeFiles folder to open it.

• Double-click on A Diller.

• Open & load A Pinch of Salt.

• Open & load Twinkle twinkly little star.

• Now close all Word windows. You opened 3 documents so there are 3 Word windows open – close them all.

Exercise – Part 2

•Launch Word.

•Click the Office button.

•Note the right pane. The most recent documents are shown. The last one you opened is a the top. You can click on the name of a document to open it.

•Close Word.

Exercise – Part 3 – We will Talk About this One•Click Start.•Click Recent Items in the right pane. A

small menu shows recent items. Just click on the one you want.

Bullet List, Numbered List, & Sorting

•Exercise Part 1:▫Start Word.▫Type shopping list. Press the Enter

key.▫Type 10 items as they come to mind. ▫ Press the Enter key after each item to put

it on a line of its own.

Bullet List, Numbered List, & Sorting

•Bullet List Exercise:▫Select all lines except the first one (the list

title).▫Click the Bullets Command in the

Paragraph Group on the Home tab.

Bullet List, Numbered List, & Sorting

•Numbered List Exercise:▫Select all the lines except the first one (the

title).▫Click the Numbering command in the

Paragraph group on the Home Tab.

Bullet List, Numbered List, & Sorting

•Sorting Exercise:▫Select all lines except the first one (the list

title).▫Click the Sort Command in the Paragraph

group on the Home Tab.▫Accept the settings in the Sort Text dialog

by clicking OK.

Create a List as You Type•Exercise (Continued from last exercise):

▫Use the Ctrl+End command to go to the end of the document.

▫Press the Enter key. Word will put “11.” on the next line for you.

▫Press the Enter again. The number will be erased & the cursor placed at the left margin to start a normal line.

▫Press the Enter several more times to enter vertical space.

▫Exercise continued on next slide.

Create a List as You Type•Exercise Continued:

▫Type the following text: To Do List for Kid’s Visit.

▫Press Enter.▫Now type the following: * vacuum guest room

Press Enter. Note that Word started a bulleted list – it also capitalized the first letter on the line.

▫Continue typing: set out fresh bed linen Press Enter.

▫Type: clean quest bathroom Press Enter. Press Enter again to end list.

▫Press Enter a couple more times.▫Exercise continued on next slide.

Create a List as You Type

•Exercise Continued:▫Now type: make living room ready for kids Press Enter.

▫Type: 1. pack knick-knacks and put in closet Press Enter.

▫Type: move recliner in front of closet Press Enter.

▫Type: put safety plugs into all outlets Press Enter.

Styles•Styles are named sets of predefined

properties, including font, size, alignment, spacing, and other.

•When you place the cursor anywhere in a paragraph & click on one of the style commands the paragraph is set to the properties defined for that style.

More Styles

Exercise• Use last exercise. Press Ctrl+Home to get to the

top of the document.

• Select the title line.

• Click the More button in the Styles group on the Home Tab. The styles gallery will be displayed.

• Now move the pointer around in the styles gallery & watch what happens in the text window. As you come to a style, the title line will be shown in that style.

• Click on the Title style. The title line will be set to that style & the gallery closes.

Exercise

•Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+A to select the entire document.

•Click the Change Styles command.

•Place the pointer on Style Set in the little menu.

•Move the pointer into the larger menu & move it up & down over the list of style sets. Watch the text Window.

Find & Replace

•Sometimes you wish to find a certain word or phrase in a document, sometimes you need to change a word or phrase to another.

Find Exercise•Close Word.

•Launch Why Computers Frustrate Older Adults from the WB_PracticeFiles Folder.

•Click the Find command in the Editing group on the Home tab. The Find & Replace dialog opens.

• In the Find what: text box enter computer.

•Click the Find Next repeatedly. Watch how each instance of the word computer is found & highlighted (selected).

Replace Exercise• Close any dialog boxes.

• Go to the top of the document (Ctrl+Home).

• Click Replace in the Editing group on the Home tab.

• In the Find what: box enter adults.

• In the Replace with: box enter people.

• Click Find Next.

• When the first instance of the word adults is found & selected click Replace.

• The replacement will be made & the next instance of adult will be found.

• This time click Replace All.

End of Lesson 5

•Senior Academy. (2008). Word 2007 Basics: An Introduction to Microsoft Office Word 2007. Ludwig Keck.

•Next Class is Tuesday, November 20th @ 11AM. We will be learning more about the Insert & Review Tabs.