What's the Word? 1/29/21

What's the Word?

During What's the Word? lessons, our time will be spent reviewing objectives that will help prepare you for your REQUIRED IBC - MOS in Word.

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Raise your hand if you are willing to get on the mic and share what you know about the following:

• Microsoft Word

• IBC

• MOS

So...what is it?

Microsoft Word is a word processing application that allows you to create a variety of documents, including letters, resumes, and more.

The Word interface

When you open Word for the first time, the Start Screen will appear. From here, you'll be able to create a new document, choose a template, and access your recently edited documents. Action Required: From the Start Screen, locate and select Blank document to access the Word interface. In other words, create a blank document in Word.

The Ribbon

Groups

Small Arrows

Backstage View

Search for text

Searching keywords is the most common method readers can use to locate specific information in a document. It requires no setup by the author of the document. The reader simply begins a search using the Find & Select feature on the Home tab.

Link to locations within documents​

Inserting Hyperlinks is a way to build navigation for your readers into your documents. You can create hyperlinks to either places within your document or to external sources outside your document, such as the URL of a website. Each hyperlink goes to one place, but you can have as many hyperlinks as needed. You can also use hyperlinks to allow readers to send email messages to a preconfigured email address. To hyperlink an element on a Word page, click the Hyperlinks feature in the Links group on the Insert tab.

Move to specific locations and objectives in documents

Another navigation tool provided in Word is the Select feature. Select is located in the Editing group on the Home tab. This feature will let you locate specific objects in a document, or you can find text with similar formatting. Another useful tool in the Select menu is the Selection Pane, which lists all elements on a page. The Selection Pane is very useful when you have many objects on a page, or layered objects, and you want to select a specific one for editing.

Show and hide formatting symbols and hidden text

Clicking on the Show/Hide icon in the Paragraph group of the Home tab displays the paragraph formatting symbols within your document. Showing these symbols can be very useful when deciding where to place page breaks. Clicking the Show/Hide feature a second time hides the symbols.

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Appears on the top left of the first page of the user's document.

• heading

• text

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The characters used to insert information into a document.

• heading

• text

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A piece of text or any type of object from a hypertext file or document to another location or file, typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or image on the screen.

• bookmark

• hyperlink

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An internal link within a document which navigates a user to another part of the document.

• bookmark

• hyperlink

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Users can insert a variety of objects such as PDF files, Excel charts or worksheets, or PowerPoint presentations into a Word document by linking or embedding them.

• Go To

• objects

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A feature which allows the user to navigate to specific parts of a document based on page

• Go To

• objects

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Nonprinting characters that indicate the end of a paragraph OR a group of symbols used to show paragraph breaks which are found on a document.

• Paragraph mark

• symbol

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Text characters which represent specific items.

• Paragraph marks

• Symbols