Click the File tab to display the Start menu.

The Start button displays the Backstage view.

The opening Word screen is always named Document1.

The Title bar displays the name of the current document.

The Quick Access Toolbar is available for all tabs on the Ribbon.

To change the way a document is viewed, use the buttons that appear to the right of the horizontal scroll bar.

Scroll bars are used to navigate a Word document.

Each Ribbon tab contains groups of related commands.

By default, the active tab on the Ribbon is the Page Layout tab.

ScreenTips help you identify screen elements such as commands and buttons.

The Quick Access Toolbar appears below the Ribbon by default.

Double-click any tab to minimize the Ribbon.

The keyboard shortcut to minimize the Ribbon is [F1].

Press [Ctrl] to display Key Tips on the Ribbon.

The Show/Hide ¶ button is located on the Page Layout tab.

Use the View Ruler button to display or hide the vertical and horizontal rulers.

Drag the Zoom slider to 90% to magnify the text area.

The insertion point is also called the I-beam.

To view paragraph marks and other nonprinting characters, click the Show/Hide ¶ button.

When the mouse pointer is in the text area, it takes the shape of an I-beam.

By default, Word wraps text from the end of one line to the beginning of the next line.

To display a shortcut menu, double-click the left mouse button.

Pressing [Ctrl]+[Delete] deletes the word to the left of the insertion point.

Pressing [Backspace] deletes characters to the left of the insertion point.

To key over existing text, switch to Insert mode.

To save an existing document under a new name, use the Save As command.

The maximum length of a filename is eight characters.

The keyboard shortcut to open an existing document is [Ctrl]+[O].

One way to open a document is to click a document link in Recent Documents file listing.

By default, Recent Documents lists the last six files opened.

The Organize button in the Open dialog box is used to look for a file or folder.

The Details option in the Views menu of the Open dialog box lists the document size and date modified.

Documents are typically stored in folders.

Line-break characters are used to start a new line within the same paragraph.

A nonbreaking space is used to prevent two words from being divided between two lines.

Press [Ctrl]+[Enter] to insert a line-break character.

Press [Ctrl]+[Spacebar] to insert a nonbreaking space.

The mouse, keyboard, and scroll bars are used to navigate a Word document.

The position of the scroll box on the vertical scroll bar indicates the relative location in a Word document.

To move through a document that is wider than the document window, use the horizontal scroll bar.

Press [Ctrl]+[Home] to move to the beginning of a line.

Press [End] to move to the end of the document.

Press [Ctrl]+[→] to move to the next paragraph.

To return to a previous edit, press [Shift]+[F5].

Press [Ctrl]+[Home] to move to the beginning of a document.

Set the Previous and Next buttons on the vertical scroll bar to scroll through a document by a specific object.

The insertion point does not move when scrolling through a document.

To reverse an action, use the Undo command.

The keyboard shortcut to Undo an action is [Ctrl]+[Y].

The Repeat command is located on the Quick Access Toolbar.

A selection can be a group of characters, words, sentences, or paragraphs, but not the whole document.

A contiguous selection of text is where the selected characters, words, sentences, or paragraphs do not follow one another.

Noncontiguous text can be selected by using the [Alt] key and the mouse.

To adjust a text selection, use the [Shift] key.

A document can be edited by selecting text and deleting or replacing the selection.

Click the Save button on the Quick Access Toolbar to save an existing document with a new name.

The AutoRecover feature automatically saves open documents at specified intervals.

The AutoRecover feature eliminates the need to manually save a document before closing it.

Document information such as file name and file size are called properties.

The keyboard shortcut to print is [Ctrl]+[P].

The keyboard shortcut to close a Word document is [Alt]+[W].