Microsoft Office Word 2007 Tutorial

Why Corporate Excel Training Sucks For Everyone

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 09:24:00 +0000

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Corporate Excel trainings, if they are offered at all, are usually three hour classes in which 20 people gather around a projector and more or less watch an instructor go through various features of Excel. Occasionally, students are asked to join along and type in a formula or two, but on the whole, it’s usually a teaching exercise, not a learning exercise.

At Excel Everest, we’ve heard this numerous times from numerous people, and we built our whole business around the premise that firstly, those who have a strong grounding of Excel inside organizations tend to be more successful, and secondly, that the current method of training employees is antique.

After having gone through a number of Excel trainings ourselves, we don’t think people are *actually* learning from the corporate Excel classes. Along with countless users we’ve talked to, a recent bit of feedback from an Excel Everest customer lays this out pretty clearly:

“I have attended numerous one and two day programs "teaching" excel. I found that once the program is over, I am no better than I was before. For me most programs show us all the things Excel can do but they don't really teach you Excel. Your program is the first that I feel that I am learning it such that I can use it. I also like that I can repeat and review any particular lesson any time. If you don't do/use it you lose it.” - Kimber

Kimber, like many others, has been there... she’s attended classes that have no relevance, no real world scenarios, and no accountability. Plus, our guess is that it’d be difficult to describe any them as “fun.”

No only is this a loosing situation for people like Kimber, but from the perspective of the company who’s paying for trainings, it’s also a risky proposition. There’s no way to know that employees are actually learning from the trainings, given that there’s no accountability. Return on investment simply cannot be shown.

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Can You Make a Pivot Table? If Not, You Need To Learn

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 09:21:00 +0000

Do you use Excel? Do you know what a Pivot Table is? If your answer to the first question is yes but the second question is no, you need to learn how to create and use a Pivot Table ASAP. Pivot Tables are one of the most useful features in Excel, and they’re a bit like the gateway drug to understanding business analysis and being able to work with data to answer questions.

So what is a Pivot Table? Think of it as a table that allows you to quickly summarize, sort, count, sum, or average your data. If you’ve got a big dataset of sales data, for instance, and you’re asked to see which regions are selling the best, you’d need to create a pivot table to do so. You’d first start by creating the table, dragging in regions to the rows section, and then dragging sales figures into the body of the Pivot Table. Then, Excel would quickly and automatically sum the sales data and tell you which region is doing the best.

It’s a bit hard to really describe what a pivot table is without showing visuals and and walking you through examples but suffice it to say that most charts you see inside spreadsheets were built through the use of pivot tables. Pivots take raw data and turn it into insight. They help you visualize patterns in a sea of numbers and can help you make key decisions that might effect either your organization of your life.

Pivots turn this:

Into this:

So, how do you learn Pivot Tables? There’s a couple of ways, but the best is to get in there and try it! You need to get your hands on some data and then try and make one yourself. First we might recommend doing a quick search on YouTube for “pivot tables” and finding the shortest video you can to explain them. Then, you should try and track down a some public datasets that will let you play with the tables. Or, alternatively, you could snag a copy of Excel Everest :), our educational tool, and we’ll guide you through the learning process.

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Breaks: Line Numbers

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:31:00 +0000

With this function, you are capable of adding line Numbers in the margin alongside each line of your document. From line Numbers you have the option to choose from as discuss below. To add Line Number to your document, click on the Page Layout Menu, then Click on Line Numbers just below Breaks tab, Choose the kind of Line Numbering that suits your document

None:

This will give you no Line Numbers and in most cases it is the default setting of your word. Your document will remain plain

Continuous

When you select on the Continuous Line Numbering, all lines will be number in a sequence order starting from 1…, this will apply to the whole of your document regardless of how big it is and would interfere with other numbering methods you had used previously for your document.

Restart Each Page:

Numbering of your document will be started on each new page; the previous page numbering sequence will not proceed to the Next Page. Each Page Start and ends with its own numbering.

Restart Each Page:

Numbering of your document will be started on each new page; the previous page numbering sequence will not proceed to the Next Page. Each Page Start and ends with its own numbering.

Restart Each Section:

You apply a new section in your document; it will have new Line Numbering. If you started a new section i.e. continuous section in the same page, Line Numbering of the Next section will start at 1, ignoring the earlier sequence of the numbering you had applied on the same page.

Suppress for Current Paragraph:

This applies for the paragraph that you are working on.

Line Numbering Options:

With this dialogue box you have the ability to adjust, Margin, Page and Layout, The figure below shows some features that you can adjust for Line Number Options. It open for you the Page Set Up Window

reverse print default for Word 2007

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:21:00 +0000

Question: Hi George,
Thanks for your great tutorials on Word 2007.
I have a question.
I very cleverly found a spot where I set reverse print as a Word default.
I did not have Word 2007 open at the time ( I think I didn't anyway...)
But,
now when I want to create a pdf, through file>print>create pfd,
the pdf doc is also reversed, ie, the pages start in reverse order.
There is no facility in the print menu>pdf mode to reverse print.
Can you tell me where I set the default for Word please?

Hopefully,
Marie

Answer
This post is to answer the questions by Marie, on how to Reverse print default.
1. Click on your File Print Menu
2. On the Print Menu Dialogue Box Click on Options tab
3. On the option Tab, you will get sub menu namely

a) Popular
b) Display
c) Proofing
d) Save
e) Advanced
f) Customize
g) Trust Center
h) Resources

4. Click on Advanced as shown in the Figure below
5. Scroll up the Options Dialogue Box until you see A Print section
6. Uncheck the Print Pages in reverse order box
7. Click OK

NB: Pages will not be printed in Reverse order after clearing this Check Box

Breaks: Next Page, Continuous, Even Page, Odd Page

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:05:00 +0000

Next Page:

Enables you to insert a new Page at the location where your Cursor is, it does not start a blank page but all text after cursor will move to the next page and does to specify whether even or odd, it just pick up the numbering automatically.

Click on the Breaks on the Page Layout toolbar and on the drop down menu choose Next Page.

Continuous

Enables one to insert a section break without having to move it to the new page, you can use the same procedure as above to insert your section Page.

Even Pages:

This insert a section break beginning with even numbers, if you are working on a document and need to insert an even page you need to use this feature to add even section to your document.

Click on the Breaks on the Page Layout Menu and choose on the Even drop down menu and effect will take place immediately,

Odd Pages

This insert a section break beginning with Odd Pages, if you are working on a document and need to insert an Odd Section you need to use this feature to add Odd section to your document.

Click on the Breaks on the Page Layout Menu and choose on the Odd Page drop down menu and effect will take place immediately.
The figure above show you where to get these functions in your Page Layout Menu

Page Breaks, Page Column, Text Wrapping

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:14:00 +0000

Page Break

Enables you to add a new page, move a section of the document to the next page, and add a column break to your document.

The beauty of adding a break to your page is to enable different kind of page numbering, when you want to combine both Romans and Words in the same document i.e. I, ii, iii, 1, 2, 3, and 4.

To combine page numbering Using Page break, Click on the page you want Text numbering to start i.e. 1 to start, go to Insert Page Number, Click on Format Page Number, on Number Format choose the preliminary page numbers you want i.e. I, ii, iii and click OK, go back to Page Number choose where to insert your Page Numbering either Top or Bottom and release the moose, this will insert your preliminaries Numbers up to the page break point.

Once that is done take your cursor to where the page break ends with your cursor there click on Page Number on the Insert Menu and this will insert other page numbers of your document i.e. 1,2,3,4,5

Column Break

Will break the text where your Cursor is to the next Column. Click where you want to add the next Column, go to Breaks, Select Column Break and this will effect changes automatically in your Word document.

Text Wrapping

Enables you to separate text from Objects without interfering with your text visibility

Page Setup: Margin, Orientation, Size and Columns

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:24:00 +0000

Enables you to set the required Page Margin, Page Orientation, Size and Column
Margins:
With Margins you have the ability to adjust your entire Document or Current page section, Click on the Available margins on the Page layout to see how your current
Document will look or behave.

The available margins include Normal width 1” inch, both right, left , Top and Bottom, We have Narrow which have 0.5” Inch, Moderate with different inches, Wide Margins, Mirrored with different settings, and Office 2003 default settings

Orientation:
There are only two types of Page Orientation in Microsoft Word 2007, these are Portrait – which is the default and vertically wide (tall height and small width) and Landscape – which is horizontally tall (tall in width and small in height)

Size:
Determine the size of your page, this will be much put into consideration depending on which paper size your document will be printed, the available sizes are Letter, A4, Legal, Executive, A3, A5, B4, B5, 11*17, Envelope#10, Envelope DL, Envelope C5, Envelope B5 among many others.
To apply Page size of your document, click on size on the Page Layout Menu, select on the available types on the drop down menu, once selected this will apply immediately.

Columns:
The default column is one, if you want your document to appear in more than one column i.e. two, Click on Column, select two as shown in the above figure( The Figure above has Margins Normal, Orientation: Landscape, Size: Letter, Columns: Three)

Working with Themes

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:16:00 +0000

This page Layout tool, changes the overall design of your Page, and this affects font, color and effects.

To apply theme, Click on Page Layout, On the tool bar Ribbon that appears on the left corner of your Page Layout click on Themes, under themes we have the following.

Colors:

This enables you to change the color of your current theme with the default color being Office. Other Theme colors that are available includes Civic, Cragscale, Concourse, Apex, Equity, Flow, Aspect, Foundry, Median, Metro, Module, Opulent, Oriel, Origin, Paper, Solstice, Technic, Trek, Urban and verve

Fonts:

This Changes the fonts of the current Theme, click on Fonts from the Theme Ribbon and see the effects as your mouse moves over the available fonts which includes default Office, Office 2, Office Classic, Office 2 Classic, Apex, Aspect, Civic, Concourse, Equity, Flow, Foundry, Median among others

Effects:

This changes the effect of the current Theme available Themes includes Office, Classic, Office 2 Classic, Apex, Aspect, Civic, Concourse, Equity, Flow, Foundry, Median among others to select on Effects click on Effect button found left of your Office Page Layout Tool Bar

NB: Themes features is only available for Office Word 2007, saving in compatible mode of Word 97-2003 will make this feature inactive

Page Layout

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:48:00 +0000

With Page Layout, you have the ability to use Themes, Setting Margins, Setting Page Orientation, Setting Page Size and Columns,

Working With Page Break, Line Numbers, Hyphenation , how to use Watermark, Coloring your Page applying Page Borders

Using Indent and Spacing and Text Alignment.

These will be discussing separately on the ongoing Page Layout on this Tutorial. The

Figure above shows Page Layout Menu.

It involves editing and designing your Page Settings including effects and colors.

Signature Line, Date & Time, Object

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:48:00 +0000

Signature Line - After working on your document, you have the ability to specify for the intended person to sign it by providing the Signature Line in your document, you the suggested Singer where he will write His/ Her Name i.e. John, Title i.e.
Director, Signer’s email address i.e. john@yahoo.com, instruction to the Signer before his/She sign the document, then ability for the signer to add comment on the document. Check on the show Sign Date and Signature Box to enable them to appear on your Document, un checking this box will make these features not to appear on your document, once you are done with inputting the above detail click on Ok button to proceed with inserting these items or cancel to stop these operations

Date & Time – This feature allows you to insert the current Date and Time in your current document, click on the Date and Time from the Insert Tool bar Ribbon, which will provide you with Available Format, Language and Update Automatically features to provide round the clock update of your document Date and Time. You can select on Default Format to be your Date and Time format that will be appearing on your document whenever you select this feature

Object – With are able to insert embedded objects from other programs to your current document, they can either be text or pictures from files. You can Create a new Object or From an existing location

The figure above shows how to insert Signature Line, Date and Time and Object function to your current document. Our last lesson in Insert Menu is on how to use Symbols and Equation
Using Symbol and Equation

Equation and Symbol

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:43:00 +0000

Allows you to insert Symbol that are not found on your Keyboard. These Symbols includes Copyright Symbols, Trade Mark Symbols, Paragraphs Marks, and Unicode Character

Examples of Symbols and characters includes
• € - EURO SIGN
• £- POUND SIGN
• ¥- YEN SIGN
• ®- RIGISTERED SIGN
• ± - PLUS-MINUS SIGN
• ≠ - NOT EQUAL TO SIGN
• ≤ - LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO SIGN
• ≥ - GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO SIGN
• ÷ - DIVISION SIGN
• ∞ - INFINITY
• Ω - OHM SIGN
• Β – GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA SIGN
• ∑- N –ARY SUMMATION
• Α – GREEK SMALL ALPHA SIGN
•  - WingDing:

These are just but a few mention of special keys and Symbol available, click on the Symbol from the Insert Tool bar Ribbon as shown above and the select on the character you want to use. Below are some Short Cut Keys associated with Insert Menu?

Short Cut Keys for Insert MenuCtrl + Return – This will Break your page to the next page
Ctrl + K – Opens hyperlink Dialogue Box
Next Lesson will be on a new Menu Bar function and this will be on Page Layout do you know how to apply Drop Cap your Document, chcek this on our previous lesson Drop Cap

Drop Cap

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:38:00 +0000

Probably this your first to hear about DropCap, you might have seen sentence with first letter being capitalized to cover three or two sentences like in our case. In the figure H at the begging of the paragrapgh has been DropCap. For you to apply this feature to your paragraghs, Select the letter you want to be Drop and then click on the Insert menu from the Menu, Click on the DropCap on the tool bar just after the WordArt Icon and before the Signature, Date & Time, and Object features. DropCap options will appear which you will have to choose from one, None, Dropped, In margin.

Click on the Drop Cap Options menu to edit your Drop Cap as shwon above, with this you are able to choose the type of font you want your text to have, line to drop from the text and size of the text. Click on this option to see how None, Drooped and In margin will appear. The figure above explained how Drop Cap Option can be used applied to your document. Our next lesson will be on Signature Line, Date & Time, Object

Signature Line, Date & Time, Object

Signature Line - After working on your document, you have the ability to specify for the intended person to sign it by providing the Signature Line in your document, you the suggested Singer where he will write His/ Her Name i.e. John, Title i.e. Director, Signer’s email address i.e. john@yahoo.com, instruction to the Signer before his/She sign the document, then ability for the signer to add comment on the document. Check on the show Sign Date and Signature Box to enable them to appear on your Document, un checking this box will make these features not to appear on your document, once you are done with inputting the above detail click on Ok button to proceed with inserting these items or cancel to stop these operations

Date & Time – This feature allows you to insert the current Date and Time in your current document, click on the Date and Time from the Insert Tool bar Ribbon, which will provide you with Available Format, Language and Update Automatically features to provide round the clock update of your document Date and Time. You can select on Default Format to be your Date and Time format that will be appearing on your document whenever you select this feature

Object – With are able to insert embedded objects from other programs to your current document, they can either be text or pictures from files. You can Create a new Object or From an existing location

The figure above shows how to insert Signature Line, Date and Time and Object function to your current document. Our last lesson in Insert Menu is on how to use Symbols and Equation

Check on Our Previous lesson on WordArt

Word Art Gallaery

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:34:00 +0000

With Word Art feature you are able to insert decorative text in your document, with it you will use the already installed decorated styles available without the ability to use or develop yours. To Insert WordArt, click on the Insert Menu on the Menu bar, then click on the WordArt on the Insert tool bar Ribbon that appears which is after QuickParts and before Drop Cap toolbar.

Select on the type of the WordArt you want they are from from style one to 30, after choosing the style you will have the ability to change the font style, size, Bold and Italic features are available. The figure above shows the style that Microsoft Office Word 2007 has.

Our next lesson will be on the Drop Cap feature in your Word Document or article that you are writing

Our Previous lesson was onQuickParts

Quick Parts

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:26:00 +0000

Enables you to insert other useful pieces of contents including, fields, document properties not limited to title and author
To use Quck Parts, click on the insert menu from Quick Parts button, a drop down list will appear and this includes

a) Document properties – Which have the following Abstract, Author, Category, Comments, Company, Company address, Company email, Company fax, Company phone, Keywords, manager, publish date, status, subject and Title

b) Field – also known as field codes are used as placeholders for data, theses data can change at anytime depending on what you are working on in a document , they enables you to create form letters and labels in mail-merge documents. Mail merge which will be discuss at a later chapter in this tutorial

c) Building Block Organizer – without select a cover page from the insert menu, you can use Building Block Organizer to insert a cover page of you document, it has the following features – document title, Company Name, Company Address, Phone Number, Fax Number, Date and Onwer field which enables you to type the abstract of the document which is a short summary of the contents of the document.

d) , Building Block Organizer has featsures such as Confidential Water Marks, Do Not Copy Water Mark, As Soon As Possible(ASAP), Title footer with document title and page number

e) Other features includes Get more on office online, Save selection to Qucik Art Gallery

After looking at overview of Quick Parts will now move on to Word Art in our next lesson

Last lesson was on how to work with Text Boxes

Lesson 24: Text Box

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:04:00 +0000

Text Box – This is a text editor box that allows placing of a box at any section of the document without interfering with your document. Text boxes can be used in tables, circle etc. Unlike previous versions of Microsoft Office, MS Word 2007 has got more text boxes to choose from depending on how you want your text box to appear in your document..

In other previous Words 97-2003, the type of text box was very limited to design as compared to Word 2007, which comes with this preformatted boxes, these includes Simple Text Box, Alphabet Quote, Alphabet Sidebar, Annual Quote, Austere Quote, Braces Quote, Conservative Quote, Contrast Quote, Cubles Quote, Decorative Quote, Exposure Quote, Mod Quote, Motion Quote, Pinstripes Quote, Puzzle Quote, Sideline Quote, Stack, Stars, Sticky, Tiles, Transcend

Click on the Insert , on the Menu Bar, Click on the Text Box on the Insert Tool Bar, Select on the Text Box and on the Built-In select any of the above Text boxes styles. Click on your preference and on the text box diagram that appears edit and format your text box. Remember you can drag your text box to any location you want, it is not necessarily means that it has to appear at the exact location where your cursor is

The Figure above shows examples of text boxes to choose from
Lesson 23 Working with header footer and Page Numbering

Lesson 23: Header, Footer, Page Number

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:55:00 +0000

1.Header – With this all your printed hard copies will have a text, number, date or any other text inserted in the header box. Use this if you want all your printed copies to have one particular text at the top. Headers are only typed once, and this allows the subsequent pages to pick the header entered. To type a page header click on the insert menu, header tab and MS Word 2007 will open for a predefined header which you can edit to suit your document.

2.Footer – This unlike header appears at the bottom of your page, to insert footer click on the footer button in the insert menu, MS word 2007 opens for you predefined footers which you edit according to your document. Both footer and header can be used to display Page numbers, Time and any other text.

3.Page Number – MS Word enables users to insert page numbers by using the page number button on the menu bar. To insert page number click on the page number button, choose where you want your page number to appear and where exactly is your page number going to be in the document section either bottom left, right, center or top right, center left, format your page numbering method by using what style you want it to be either the page to start in what page e.g. 1, 2, 3 etc or Choose to use Romans numbers.. As explained in the above figure

Previous lesson was on Bookmark and Cross-Referrence

1. Lesson 22: Insert Bookmark, Cross-Reference

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:38:00 +0000

1. Insert Bookmark, Cross-ReferenceWith bookmarks in Microsoft Office Word 2007, enables you to assign particular section, headline or sentence a specified name as a bookmark. You click on the Bookmark Name and will take you to the section that you had highlighted to be bookmarked. Assuming that you want to bookmark “Insert Menu: Bookmark” title above with the name “my title”.

Step to followStep 1: Open Microsoft Word 2007, from start, programs menu

Step 2: Open your document with the Insert Menu: Bookmark title
Step 3: Point your cursor where the Insert Menu: Bookmark title is
Step4: Click on the Insert on the Menu bar
Step 5: Click on the Bookmark Tab which comes between Hyperlink and Cross-reference tab

Step 6: On the Bookmark dialog box, write the word “my title” on the Bookmark name
Step 7: Click on add, to add my title as your bookmark
Step 8: Click on go to tab, on the dialog box to take you to your Insert menu: Bookmark title.
Step 9: To remove your bookmark, click on the delete button

To cancel the process or dialog box click or cancel button and this will take you to the main word window.

2. Cross-reference – User has got the ability to reference to tables, figures, and page numbers. Users assign specific cross-reference such as go to page 6, go up, go down, see figure above etc.
Hyperlink Lesson How to use Hyperlink

Lesson 21 : Insert Hyperlink

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:31:00 +0000

With hyperlink are able to create a link to a picture, web page, a word document save in another folder, Excel document linked in your current word page, linking other office application programs including MS PowerPoint, MS Access.

The importance of hyperlink gives the ability to link a document to your frequently used document which gives you the apple time to reach that particular document through your link, this in turn save time searching all folders and other subfolders looking for that particular document, picture and any other object that can be linked.

To create a link, click on you’re the hyperlink icon on the Insert Menu bar, this will opens the Insert Hyperlink dialogue box, on the Text display type how you want the link to appear in your current document, look in: enable you to locate the document you want to link, Existing WebPages or Files gives you the available of file that are currently ready for linking, create in this document gives you the exact place to create your link as you can see in the figure or click on hyperlink from your Insert Hyperlink to see more details and once you are done with giving detailed information on how you want it , click OK or Cancel to stop creating a link
In figure above describe the procedure to follow while linking your document

Learn more on how to use Picture, ClipArt and Smart from our previous lesson

Lesson 20 : Insert Picture, Clip Art, Shapes, SmartArt, Chart

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:22:00 +0000

With Picture you have the ability to insert pictures from folders into your document. Other than from your folder there are already installed pictures that Microsoft Word 2007 comes with. Click on the Picture Icon on the Insert Menu, from the Insert Picture Dialogue Box that appears select the folder where your picture is located and click insert tab or cancel to stop the function. Remember your picture will be inserted at the cursor present location

ClipArt: ClipArts are creative activities including movies, drawing, sounds or stock of photographs illustrating a concept or an idea. Click on the Clop Art Menu from the Insert Menu, this will open Clip Art dialogue box, on the dialogue box on the Search For space, specify or type what you want to search, on the Search in; select from the drop down list where you want to search your item, on the Result s Should be you can select Clip Art which will limit your search to Clip

Art alone. Once the Clip Art are shown on the Result page, click on it to insert it at the present cursor location in your document
Shapes: enables you draw all kind of shape you want to among these shape are Line, Arrow, Rectangle, Basic Shape – Trapezoid, Octagon, Heart etc. Block Arrows – Up Arrow, Left Arrow e t c., flowcharts, Stars and Banners

Smart Art: These are graphics for visual communications that you can insert in your document. On the Insert Menu, Click on the SmarkArt, from the gallery dialogue box that appears click on the diagram and type the components as best suit your purpose

Chart: As you can manipulate your data using charts in Excel, MS Word 2007 also give you the capability to do the same, click on the Chart from the Insert Menu, select what kind of chart you want to be presented in your data including Bar Charts, Line Charts, Area and Surface Area

The figure above shown above shows SmartArt Graphic
Learn more on how to work with tables in our previous lesson Insert Table

Lesson 19: Insert Tables

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:49:00 +0000

With Table menu you have the option to draw a table or insert a table. Convert your data into table

Drawing a table: Click on the table menu, from the Insert Menu bar, on the drop down menu select on the Draw Table, your cursor will immediately turn into a pen, take the cursor to the location you want to draw your table. Click and hold the mouse as you drag the mouse and release the mouse after dragging, as you drag your mouse you will be able to see the area being covered by your table. With the most still having a pen like cursor, divide the object into both rows and columns and you are now ready to start typing

Insert Table: With Insert Table option, the computer will do the work for you, your main task is to click on the Insert Table, and on the dialogue Box that appears specify the number of rows and columns you want your table to have and then click OK. Your table will be inserted at the location where your cursor is

Excel Spreadsheet: This allows you to insert excel spreadsheet into your word document and work on Microsoft Word as if you are in Microsoft Excel. Click on Insert Table, then on Excel Spreadsheet

Quick Tables: Word 2007 gives the ability to insert quick tables which are already predefined, with most are to do with the Year calendar. The figure above shows the Table menu with Quick table option opened

Our previous lesson on Cover page helps you to get the right outer page for your document

Lesson 18 Insert: Cover Page, Blank Page, Page Break

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:38:00 +0000

In earlier Microsoft Office word Versions you never had this option, where you were able to design a desire cover page of your document. With Microsoft Office 2007 you have this feature to make your document look more presentable and neat

Features of Cover Page are
Title: Give your document good title orientation; put your title as you wish

Dates: allows you to put the date you would like your document to have, with this if it is a project you are working on your due date can be placed on the cover page

Author: if you are the author write your name, or give the name of the author if it does not belong to you. The following are some types of Cover pages that Office 2007 comes with: Alphabet, Annual, Austere, Conservative, Contrast, Cubicles, Exposure, Mod, Motion, Pinstripe, Puzzle, Sideline, Stack, Tiles, Transcend.

Click on any of the above on the insert menu, Cover Page and select one that would best suit your document. After the Cover page of your choice appears click on the type text area to input relevant texts i.e. Date, Time, Title
Check on the above figure above on how Contrast Cover Page appears

Blank Page: This will help you insert a new blank page(s) where your cursor is, your cursor can either in the middle of a paragraph, and if you click on blank page it will be inserted there, it helps you add a new page.

Page Break: With Page break give you the ability to start the next page where you cursor is, the difference with page break is that it does not insert a new page but break the current page section into the next page, so all the text after your cursor will be taken to the next page

Lesson 17 explained overview of the Insert Menu

Lesson 17 Insert Menu

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:28:00 +0000

After looking atOffice button and Home menu, the next lessons will be how to use in insert menu if your missed the previous lesson on Office button you can go back to it and learn more here (will insert code to direct user to the Office button page)

With the Insert Menu you will be able to perform so many activity, including picture editing, Working with Clip Arts, Cover Pages, Tables, Shape, Smart Art, Chart, Hyperlink, Bookmark, Cross-Reference, Header and Footer, Page numbering, TextBox, Quickparts, WordArd, Drop Cap, Signature, Date and Time, Object Equation and Symbols

In the figure above show you how Insert Menu look like, which is of quite contrast from other previous Microsoft Office Word application. All the components of the Insert Menu Will be explained separately in the chapters that follows.

Remember that what you gained from the other two previous chapters will help you to work with the Insert Menu, so keep on refreshing your memory with previous lessons you learned about Microsoft Office word 2007

Lesson 16: Office Button, Home Short Keys

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:52:00 +0000

Our last lesson on Home Menu end with some Short Cuts that you can use and are discuss below
To Use the short cut keys, press Ctrl button while holding the button press on the letter
Ctrl +N – opens a new word document page
Ctrl + O – Opens a folder Dialogue Box
Ctrl + V – Performs a Paste function
Ctrl+ S – Open Save As dialogue box, or Save your document if you had saved it earlier
Ctrl+ A – Select all text in the document, if you want to copy paste
Ctrl + P – Open the Print Dialogue Box
Ctrl + E – Align your text to the Center or from Center to left Align
Ctrl + L – Left Alignment
Ctrl + R – Right Alignment
Ctrl + J – Justify your paragraph
Ctrl + D – Opens the Font dialogue box
Ctrl + U – Underline and un underlined a selected text
Ctrl + I – Makes your text letter italic
Ctrl + B – Bolds your texts
Ctrl + Z – Undo function
Ctrl + Y – Can’t Repeat typing
Ctrl + > - Grow the select font
Ctrl + < - Shrink the selected font
Ctrl += - Makes highlighted Text a subscript
Ctrl ++ - Makes a highlighted text s superscript
Ctrl +Shift + F – Opens a font face dialogue Box
Ctrl + Shift + P – Opens a font face dialogue Box
Ctrl + F – Opens Find and Replace Dialogue Box
Ctrl + H – Opens Find and Replace Dialogue Box

=END OF HOME MENU OUR NEXT LESSON WILL BE ON INSERT MENU=

Lesson 15 will help youFont Style, Find, Replace

Lesson 15: Working With Font Style, Find, Replace, Select

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:37:00 +0000

There is various font styles you can use, use special characters, heading 1, heading 2, heading 3, heading 4. To change the font style select the text who font you want to increase, then choose the font style from the tool bar icon as shown on figure 15 above.
Changing styles also allows you to change font style set into the following -Default Black and White, Distinct, Elegant, Fancy, Normal, Manuscript, Modern, Simple, Traditional and many more, you can also change the color, font style

Find – Allows you to locate a word within a paragraph or within the whole document, click on find menu, either select find drop down menu and input the text you want to find then click OK, or Click on Go To and on the Go To dialogue box type the page number you want to go to and then click Ok

Replace – Helps you replace the word or a sentence, click on the replace menu, on the Find and Replace Dialogue that appears, on the Find What – input the text you want to find and on the replace with type the new text you are replacing with the old text

Select – Use this function if you want to highlight your text in the document for copy pasting or deleting purposes, see figure 15 for more details on where to find these functions in Microsoft Office Word 2007

Lesson 14 shows how Indent, line spacing

Lesson 14 :Indent, Line Spacing, Shading, Border, Sort

noreply@blogger.com (George) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 09:02:00 +0000

Indent: Gives you the ability to start a paragraph at any given level from the page margin, if you choose to start your paragraph in the middle of the page you can indent so that the cursor can move to the spot where you want to start your paragraph. To indent click on the indent icon on the tool bar, this will move your paragraph to either left or right depending which indent icon you chose
Line spacing: allows to determine the kind of spacing you want in between your paragraph, you can either choose on single, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5. to line space click select the sentence, by either double clicking or click, hold and drag the mouse on the sentence, on the tool bar select line spacing icon which has two like arrows with one facing up and the other facing down

Shading – Allows you to apply a background color on your text, take note that shading does not change the font color but only the background color. To shade your text select the text, click on the shade icon on the tool bar, select the color of your choice as shown on figure 14 above

Border: This a allows you to create a border for your text, as shown on the diagram above

Sort: Will help you arrange your work in an orderly manner, you decide to arrange you data in ascending order, or descending which makes it easy to sort out any data you are dealing with. Figure 14 explain how these functions can be applied.
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