Word review list

 

See quick checks in each tutorial and terms at the end of each tutorial

 

the difference between Plain text vs. formatted Text

Formatted text, styled text or rich text, as opposed to plain text, has styling information beyond the minimum of semantic elements: colours, styles (boldface, italic), sizes and special features (such as hyperlinks).

            Accept input from keyboard for text and possibly function keys

            Accept input from mouse to navigate

            Allow edit, search, replace, copy paste

            Apply various font and paragraph format features to documents.

            Add pictures, tables, clip art and word art etc. ..

            Add border, background

            Mail merge

            Print settings

            How to better customize Word.

            Many other features …

           

Word window  

a Word document window contains several visual elements commonly found in almost all windows software as well as many visual elements which are unique in Word. 

           

            menu (commands are categorized under different menu items based on the nature of commands)

            short menu: display your most recently used commands only.

            full menu display all the commands associated with  a menu.

            a dimmed command appears gray, or dimmed, instead of black.

            a hidden command does not appear in short menu, but in full menu.

            Submenu, if a triangle appears

            Dialog box if an ellipsis appears

            rulers

            status bar

            toolbars, floating and docking

            document area

            task pane

 

            insertion point,  mouse pointer

 

shortcut key

shortcut menu

shortcut desktop icon

navigation keyboard shortcuts

           

How to display shortcut keys in screen tips? (tools->customize->options->others->show shortcut keys! )

 

typing modes:

            insert mode

            and overtype mode

 

customize word, options (Tools menu-> )

 

views : five different views. Different views change the ways your document will be displayed. Some features are only accessible in certain views.

           

the status will be kept for next time using the word!

 

font

            font type

            font style

            font size

            font color

            font …

 

page break

            automatic page break

            manual page break

            section page break continue, new page

section

 

line break

           

paragraph

            style

            margin

preview

pictures

tables

            cells

            columns

            rows

            borders           

            shades

            alignment

 

tool customization and option menu

alignment

            left

            right

            center

            justify

                       

new document

           

wordart

clipart

footnote

header and footer

 

tab marker

Tab stop, tab stop alignment style, remove tabs

 

office clipboard

print, landscape, and fit to page

print two pages on one page, print selected page, current page.

 

smart tags (paste options, autocorrect options, smart tag actions)

paste options

 

How to customize recently used file list from 4 to 9.

 

why when you type “teh”, word will correct it to “the” ?

 

Show/hide button & nonprinting characters

 

AutoCorrect & AutoCorrect Options button

           

Spelling and Grammar errors, red wavy underlines and green wavy underlines

 

 

Autocomplete

 

Keystrokes for moving the insertion point

 

Selection bar

Selecting parts of a document

 

 

Drag and drop, cut paste, format issue!! (Illustrate in class)

 

Clipboard

Anchor

Past options

 

Page margins and page orientation

Alignment

Indentation

 

Format painter (two-step operations )  makes it easy to copy all formatting features of one paragraph to one or multiple items.  ( step 1: click the button to collect all formatting features of the current paragraph, then double click the button to paint it else where!)

 

Bullets and numbers, indentation level

 

Comments in print layout view.

 

Tables

 

Desktop publishing,

 

Anchor a drawing object

 

Mail merge