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Word 2010 Tutorial
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Microsoft Word 2010
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Microsoft Office 2010 programs have always been the
most popular productivity software that is used by
majority of the world population. Microsoft word has
been one of the most useful ones and it provides a wide
range of functionality and purposeful uses.
Microsoft Word 2010 is the most recent Word
processing program and it is one of the mostly used one
of the Microsoft Office Pack. Microsoft Word 2010 is
highly sophisticated and it is used for composing
letters, reports, academic papers, references, CVs,
essays, term papers, articles, novels and many other
things. You can print out what you produce, design it to
make more attractive, add pictures, tables and list fact
and figures by using graphics. You can save the word
office document you have produced on the hard drive for
later use or to edit further in future.
Using
Microsoft Word 2010 for composing texts is very handy
because it has many features that make the process quick
and rather easy. With Microsoft Word 2010 you can
actually not only compose text but also create tables,
write academic papers and insert references, tables of
contents etc. with the References tab of Microsoft Word
2010. Additionally new features of Microsoft Word 2010
will be making everything a lot easier for both new and
expert users.
This is how a Microsoft Word 2010
document looks like on our monitor display.
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Getting Started with Microsoft Word 2010
If
you are new to Microsoft Word 2010, you should
definitely note that it is not a difficult task to get
the hang of it. If you have used a prior version like MS
Word 2010, then the shift to 2010 Word edition will be
piece of cake. First of all you should know how to get
started and to do this you will have to go to the Start
menu and then to All Programs which should be followed
by Microsoft Office and finally Microsoft Word
2010.
Here is the route to follow to get started
with Microsoft Word 2010:
Start  All Programs Microsoft Office Microsoft Word
2010
This is how you can open a new
Microsoft Word 2010 document.
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If you require using Microsoft Word 2010
frequently you can also place the 2010 Word icon on the
Start menu and this way you can have a better, easier
and quicker access to the application. In order to place
the Microsoft Word 2010 icon in the Start Menu all you
have to do is to follow the route stated above and drag
Microsoft Word 2010 to the start menu. You can also do
this by right clicking on the Microsoft Word 2010 icon
and selecting Pin to Start Menu and it will be placed on
the start menu for you to start creating and editing
professional looking documents and many more.
Here is the route to follow to place the
Microsoft Word 2010 icon in the Start Menu:
Start
Menu All Programs Microsoft Office Microsoft Word 2010 (right click) Pin to Stat
menu
This is how you can place/pin the Microsoft
Word 2010 icon to the Start
Menu.
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Starting to use Microsoft Word 2010
Once a
new Microsoft Word 2010 Document is ready you can start
composing your letter, report, essay, term paper etc.
However first of all, it is useful to know what is
available in Microsoft Word 2010 Ribbon and Office
Button.
File Button of Microsoft Word 2010
The
Office button which was present in the Microsoft Word
2007 is called File Button within the Microsoft Word
2010. The File Button has the following Save, Save As,
Open, Recent, New, Print, Save & Send, Help, Options
and Exit icons. On the right hand side you can view
detailed information about the document such as its
size, number of pages, so on and so forth.
The
Microsoft Word 2010 File tab and its contents are shown
below.
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The Ribbon of Microsoft Word 2010
The
Microsoft Word 2010 Ribbon, which is the place where the
toolbar contents are placed, is very handy and will
provides a quick and easy access to the most frequently
used icons of Ms Word 2010. There are the File, Home,
Inset, Page Layout, References, and Mailings, Review and
View tabs in the Ribbon on 2010 Word. Each tab also has
several groups to organize and provide a better use of
the Microsoft Office 2010 featrues. The Home tab has
Clipboard, Font, Paragraph, Styles and Editing groups.
Insert tab has Pages, Tables, Illustrations, Links,
Header and Footer, Text, Symbols groups, the Page Layout
Tab houses the Themes, Page Setup, Page Background,
Paragraph and Arrange groups.
Microsoft Word
2010 also has References tab which consists of Table of
Contents, Footnotes, Citations and Bibliography,
Captions, Index and Table of Authorities and this tab is
absolutely perfect for those who are working on a
research paper, essay, and term paper or similar formal
documents. Review, Mailings and View are also other
three handy tabs of Microsoft 2010 Word that have
several groups within themselves and all these are
actually available with the Microsoft Word 2010 to help
you complete your composing tasks easily and
quickly.
With MS Word 2010 there is also Quick
Access Toolbar which has a save, undo Repeat Typing
button and Customize Quick Access drop down list. Within
the list there are New, Open, Save, E-mail, Quick Print,
Print Preview and Print, Spelling & Grammar, Undo,
and Redo, Draw Table, Open Recent File icons. You can
also choose to show the Quick Access Toolbar below the
Ribbon by choosing Show below the Ribbon selection and
you can also customize further with the More Commands
button and make Microsoft Word 2010 suitable to your
preferences and needs. In such a manner Quick Access
Toolbar of MS Word lets you performance routine tasks
much faster.
The Microsoft Word 2010
Quick Access toolbar and its
functionality is shown below.
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Composing the Text with Microsoft Word
2010
While typing up the text on Microsoft Word
2010 and also on other formats, you should make sure you
save the document regularly. With Microsoft Word 2010,
to save your document for the first time you have to
click on file button at top left hand side and then
click on Save. Then you will see the file name part and
here you will type in the name you want to save the MS
Word document as. Next you have to select where you want
to save this Microsoft word 2010 document to and you can
do this through Up One Level button or by just selecting
the Desktop, My Documents etc. icons which are placed on
the left side of the window.
This is how you can
save your Microsoft Word 2010 document which is shown in
the MS Word screen shot below.
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Save As Option of Microsoft Word 2010
In
addition to saving your document, with Microsoft Word
2010, you can also save it in different formats and also
you can save a previously saved filed differently
through the Save As button. In order to save Microsoft
Word 2010 to a different format, you have to follow the
same route as the normal saving. However once you have
clicked on the file icon, you have to choose the Save As
button and then carry on the same procedure as the
normal saving procedure. If you want to change the
format you can do this through the Save As button which
is located just under the File Menu button. Lastly you
have to click save and the process of 'Save As' your
document in Microsoft Word 2010 will be completed.
Auto Save Option of Microsoft Word 2010
One
tip that could be very helpful is the automatic saving
option which is special to Microsoft Word 2010. Here is
how you can do it. You have to click File button and
then to Word options button. Next the Word Options
window will come up and there you will have to choose
the Save button which is situated at the left hand side
just below the Proofing button. Once you have the Save
Word Options highlighted you can edit the options
according to you preferences and you can adjust the Auto
Save time which is basically how often you want the 2010
Word document to be automatically saved and this is how
Microsoft Word 2010 enables you to automatically save
your documents.
We have include a display of how
you can enable the Microsoft Word 2010 to save you
documents automatically.
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Editing Text on Microsoft Word 2010
Once you
have completed composing the text of your Microsoft Word
2010 document, you can edit the word document to make it
look better. You can make it look more formal by making
a few changes and adjustments by using the icons in the
Home tab in MS Office 2010. You can use the Styles group
which has some pre designed Heading styles or you can
create your own by using the change styles button.
Within the change styles button you can change colour,
font and paragraph spacing. With the Microsof Office
2010 there are also quite a lot of new Font styles and
you can simply access them through the Home tab. There
are also numberings bullet points, aligning and
paragraph spacing options, colour choices and many more
options on in the Home tab of Microsoft Word 2010. All
these icons can help you to make your document look much
better and more professional and Microsoft word 2010
will absolutely make everything a lot easier and quicker
for its users.
This is how the font of the
composed text can be changed in Microsoft Word 2010 and
also a handy tip would be short cut access which is
CTRL + SHIFT + F.
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Ribbon of MS Excel 2010This is how you can edit
your composed text via the Home tab
which houses the Clipboard, Font, Paragraph, Styles and
Editing groups on Microsoft Word 2010.
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Spelling and Grammar Checker of Microsoft Word
2010
Once you have composed and edited the text
of your Microsoft Word 2010 document, you can also check
the spelling and grammar of the composed text to make
sure that there are no mistakes. The Spelling and
Grammar tool is placed in the Review tab of 2010 Word
within the Proofing group which also homes the word
count, thesaurus and research icons. The Spelling and
Grammar option is also placed in the Status Bar which is
the bar at the most bottom of the Microsoft Word 2010
document. If there is a tick showing at the bottom of
the Microsoft Word 2010 document, on the status bar,
this means that there is no proofing error and your text
is free of any mistakes. If there are some errors then
there will be a red cross on the bottom and you can
correct the errors by clicking on the red cross. Also
the proof error words or sentences would be underlined
with a red colour and you can simply right click on it
to correct them. This is a familiar feature from the
previous models of Word like 2007 and the Microsoft word
2003.
Shown below is where the Spelling and
Grammar Checker of Microsoft word 2010 is
located.
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Extras of Microsoft Word 2010
Every single
version of Microsoft Office has something new and
specific which generally amazes the users. With the
Microsoft Word 2010 there are plenty of new features,
however the best of all is the Format tab. This special
feature tab of Microsoft Word 2010 cannot be seen when
you are just composing a text, however if you insert a
picture to the document and click on the picture you
will easily notice the new Picture Tools option and the
Format tab of Microsoft Word 2010.
This is how
the Picture tools and the Format tab and its groups look
like on our computer display.
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Within the format tab of Microsoft Word 2010, there
are adjust, picture style, arrange and size options and
these enable you to format and adjust the picture you
have inserted to the document and to make it suitable to
your needs. Also for those who are not quite familiar
with Microsoft Word 2010, you can insert a picture
through the Insert tab which is placed just next to the
Home tab.
Here is the route to follow to insert a
picture in Office Word 2010:
Insert Picture Select
a Picture
Insert
This is how inserting a picture
to Microsoft Word 2010 document window looks like.
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Should you require using a table in your
Microsoft Word 2010 document that you are working on,
then you can simply use the same insert button and by
clicking on Table group you can insert a table with as
many columns and rows as you require to use. After
adding the table to Microsoft Word 2010 document, you
can fill it in with data and you can also format the
data and the table, such as its borders and colours to
make it even more professional and catchy in just a few
seconds.
The route to follow to insert a table to
the Microsoft Word 2010 Document
Insert
Table Select
the rows and the columns by moving the mouse Click to insert
This
is how a table is added to a Microsoft Word 2010
document.
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Once you have inserted the picture to the Microsoft
Word 2010 document, click on the picture and then click
on the Format tab which appears in a pink colour with a
Picture Tools option. There you can see frames that you
can select to format the picture you have inserted. It
is also possible to change the position of the text and
this too is a little different from the previous
Microsoft Word Programs. There is also an option
with Microsoft Word 2010 that enables you to remove the
background to give a better appearance to your picture
and overall document. The Size and the Adjust groups
enable you to change the picture according to your
preferences and requirements and these are only a few of
the new features of Microsoft Word 2010.
Overall this was just a basic look to the Microsoft
Word 2010 to enable users to get familiar with its
components and usage. Once you have gone through this
guidance you can simply start exploring Microsoft Word
2010 and start composing you letters, essays, reports,
documents and many other things easily and quickly.
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Useful links for Office and Word 2010
Training:
The following links
are helpful in order to get more
information about Microsoft Word 2010:
-Download Office Word 2007
software
-Word 2010 Features and Resources
from Microsoft
-Microsoft Word 2010 Tutorials
-FREE MS Word Templates for Business/Home
to download
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This concludes the lesson on Microsoft
Word 2010. If you are unable to find the information you are
looking for, please visit Microsoft's Word home page.
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