Microsoft Word 2007 Tutorial

Microsoft Word 2007 is completely different from its predecessors. The layout is different, and the program has a lot of new options. If it all looks too foreign to you, don't worry: Microsoft Word 2007 is actually very simple to operate once you know how the new elements work. This tutorial will help you make that transition.

Instructions

1. Take a look that the menu bar at the top. Notice how it has different tabs. The tab you will use most is "Home." It has all of your basic formatting features, like font type and color, bold, italic, underline, spacing, find-and-replace and highlighting. The new feature is the Styles section. Using this, you can easily highlight text and change it to a certain, premade style format.

2. Make up your own style format by right-clicking on one of the Style buttons (Normal, Heading or Sub-heading) and clicking "Modify."

3. Click to the next tab, which is "Insert." If you want to insert photos, graphics, hyperlinks, bookmarks, headers, footers, word art, paragraph breaks, symbols or signatures, this is the tab to choose.

4. Click to the next tab, which is "Layout." It has options for line spacing, indents, margins and document size.

5. Click to the "Reference" tab, which helps you automatically insert bibliographies and references. Simply use the drop menu to pick the type of reference you need, and Word will insert it for you.

6. Use the "Mailing" tab to create documents for correspondence, to print labels and to address envelopes. By clicking the "Select Recipients" button, you can have the document emailed to contacts you have saved to Outlook.

7. Use the "Review" tab to help you automatically edit your document. It can check for spelling, word count and grammar. You can also look up words in a dictionary or thesaurus, or add a comment by simply clicking on the appropriate icon.

8. Click on the "View" tab to bring up a list of options you can choose to change the way your document looks on the screen.

9. Click on the last tab, which is called "Developer." This tab is for designing web pages and publishing them to the web.