Microsoft Word

MS Word is the most popular tool from Microsoft which allows you to create professional-quality documents, reports, letters, and résumés.

Microsoft Word has abundant features including spell check, grammar check, text and font formatting, HTML support, image support, advanced page layout, and more, which most of the other text editors do not support.

To work on MS Word, you should have MS Office installed on your laptop or have a trial version.

Getting Started

1. Open MS Word on your computer by clicking on the Windows button     and type Word.
2. Open Word, click on New Blank Document (This step differs with various versions of Windows)
3. As soon as you start, remember to Save your document with an appropriate name.
4. Word documents are stored with an extension .doc or .docx

Adding Content

1. Now you can start typing in the content as needed.
2. We need to understand the various Tabs listed on the tool bar.
   1. File
   2. Home
   3. Insert
   4. Design
   5. Layout
   6. Reference
   7. Mailings
   8. Review
   9. View
   10. Help

We will look further into the most frequently used options.

Home Option

Home option in the tabs is the default and most frequently used one. It contains all the formatting features.

We will discuss each feature in the Home Tab in detail.

Text Formatting

This section allows you to change the Font type, size, capitalization etc. If you move your mouse over each icon, it gives a detail on its usage. Select the text you want to change and apply these features, or click on these features before typing your text

Home – More Formatting

This Section enables you to cut, copy and paste text

Delete Text

It is very common to delete text and retype the content in your Word document. The following table describes how you can delete single character or a whole word by using either of these two keys −

Navigate to all the tabs such as Insert, Design, Layout in word one by one and try different options.

Assignment

Use the following to practice your MS-Word skills. Follow the instructions step-by-step, use the same fonts, colors as mentioned.

MS Word – Assignment 1

1. In your file explorer, create folders in your c:\ as mentioned below
   1. Folder name: OCA_PracticeExercise1.
   1. Inside this folder create a Subfolder named WordPractice_1

• Open MS Word and create new file named AboutUS. Save the file in the Sub folder you created i.e. WordPractice_1 

• In the word file type, the following text exactly as mentioned. Use the font Callibri. Heading should be size 16 and content size 12.

WHO WE ARE?

Headquartered in Dublin, OH, Ohio Computer Academy is a global Information Technology (IT) education provider. The company offers diversified IT training for various skill levels from Basics to Advanced.

It provides out-of-the-box and customized training solutions to Corporates, Colleges, Individuals and working professionals.

Having extended our locations at Chennai and Bangalore in India, we are equipped to provide Online as well as Onsite training at different time zones.

With a mission to ‘Educate through Inspiration’, Ohio Computer Academy works with Individuals and corporates to evolve in the field of Information Technology. We inspire all to start a career in IT.

• Save the above file
• Save the above file as AboutUs_2 and type the below text after the last line of the above text

Ohio Computer Academy is not just a typical training institute, but one which helps to fulfill dreams. It is partnered with multiple Staffing agencies to assist in Job placement. Our company’s Job grooming services, equip the candidates for better performance during job interviews. We have different courses for example for beginners we have 4 courses.

• Save this file
• After completion of this exercise, in your windows files you should have the following structure