Microsoft Word Tutorial

Microsoft Word Tutorial 2003/2002
By Denise Etheridge
You can use this free online tutorial to learn Microsoft Word 2003 or 2002 (Word XP). Click here to start. If you are using Word 2007, click here for our Word 2007 tutorial.



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Table of Contents
Lesson One: Getting Familiar with Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word is a word processing software package. You can use it to type letters, reports, and other documents. This lesson introduces you to the Word window. You use the Word window to interact with Microsoft Word.

• The Microsoft Word Title Bar
  
• The Microsoft Word Menu Bar
  
• Microsoft Word Toolbars
  
• The Ruler
  
• Document View
  
• Text Area
  
• Exiting Microsoft Word
  

Lesson Two: Things You Need to Know About Microsoft Word
Beforeyou get started with Word, there are a few concepts with which you needto be familiar. This lesson explains those concepts.

• Click
  
• Options
  
• Highlighting Text
  
• Highlighting Menu Items
  
• Placing the Cursor
  
• Menu Commands Using the Alt Key
  
• Shortcut Notations
  
• Starting a New Paragraph
  
• Exiting Microsoft Word
  

Lesson Three: Microsoft Word Basic Features
You are now ready to learn how to create a Word document. This lesson covers typing, using the Backspace key, using the Delete key, inserting text, bolding, underlining, and italicizing.

• Typing and Using the Backspace Key
  
• The Delete Key
  
• Inserting Text
  
• Overtype
  
• Bold, Underline, and Italicize with Micosoft Word
  
• Save File and Exit Microsoft Word
  

Lesson Four: More Microsoft Word Basic Features
Thefeatures in Word can make your work easier, make your documents moreattractive, and/or enable you to work more efficiently. This MicrosoftWord lesson teaches you how to open a file, cut, copy, paste, useAutoText, use spell check, use Find and Replace, and work with fonts.All of these features either make your work easier or make yourdocument more attractive.

• Open File
  
• Cut and Paste
  
• Copy and Paste
  
• AutoText
  
• Spell Check
  
• Find and Replace
  
• Font Size
  
• Fonts
  
• Save File and Exit Microsoft Word
  

Lesson Five: Working with Paragraphs
Whenyou type information into Microsoft Word, each time you press the Enterkey Word creates a new paragraph. You can format paragraphs. Forexample, you can indent the first line of a paragraph, you can set theamount of space that separates paragraphs, and you can align aparagraph left, right, center, or flush with both margins. In thislesson, you will learn about the various formats you can apply to aparagraph.

• Space Before and Space After
  
• Line Spacing
  
• First-Line Indent
  
• Indentation
  
• Alignment
  
• Hanging Indent
  
• Save File and Exit Microsoft Word
  

Lesson Six: Tab Key, Bulleting, Numbering, Undo, Redo, Printing, and Help
Ifyou have lists of data, you may want to bullet or number them. Whenusing Microsoft Word, bulleting and numbering are easy. The first partof this lesson teaches you to bullet and number. After you havecompleted your document, you may want to share it with others. One wayto share your document is to print and distribute it. In this lessonyou will learn how to print your documents.

• The Tab Key
  
• Bullets and Numbering
  
• Undo & Redo
  
• Save File
  
• File Close
  
• Open New File
  
• Printing
  

Lesson Seven: Microsoft Word Tables
By using a table, you can organize your data into rows and columns. In this lesson you learn how to work with tables.

• Creating a Table
  
• Moving Around a Table
  
• Entering Text into a Table
  
• Selecting a Row and Bolding the Text
  
• Right-Aligning Text
  
• Adding a New Row to the End of the Table
  
• Adding a New Row Within the Table
  
• Resizing the Columns
  
• Adding a New Column to a Table
  
• Sorting a Table
  
• The Sum Function
  
• Deleting a Column
  
• Deleting a Row
  
• Recalculate
  
• Merge Cells
  
• Table Headings
  
• Converting Text to a Table
  
• Splitting a Table
  
• Table AutoFormat
  
• Save File