Introduction To Computing

This document provides an introduction and overview of Microsoft Word 2016. It describes the different sections of the Word interface, including the ribbon, tabs, groups, commands, rulers, views and status bar. It explains the purpose and functions of the Home and Insert tabs. The lab task is to practice common formatting and layout features in these tabs, such as fonts, paragraphs, styles, tables, illustrations, links and headers/footers. Students are instructed to complete tasks covering these Word functions and features.

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Introduction to Computers

Laboratory # 02

UET TAXILA
Lab Engr. Sidra Shafi
Microsoft Word 2016

Statement Purpose:
1. Introduction to Microsoft Word 2016.
2. Overview of different sections of Word.
3. Complete features of Home tab.
4. Complete features of Insert tab.
5. Lab Task Covering some features of Home and Insert tab.

Resources required:
1. A desktop computer
2. Microsoft Office 2016

Microsoft Word 2016

Steps:

Click start button and type Microsoft. It will give you different options as shown below.

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Different Sections of MS Word:

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Quick Access Tool bar Dialog Box Launcher Ruler

File Tab Ribbon Title bar Help

Status bar Document area View buttons Zoom control

1. File Tab
You can click it to check Backstage view, which is the place to come when you need to open or
save files, create new documents, print a document, and do other file-related operations.

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2. Quick Access Toolbar
This you will find just above the File tab and its purpose is to provide a convenient resting place
for the Word most frequently used commands. You can customize this toolbar based on your
comfort.

3. Ribbon

Ribbon contains commands organized in three components:

Tabs: They appear across the top of the Ribbon and contain groups of related commands. Home,
Insert, Page Layout are example of ribbon tabs.

Groups: They organize related commands; each group name appears below the group on the
Ribbon. For example, group of commands related to fonts or or group of commands related to
alignment etc.

Commands: Commands appear within each group as mentioned above.

4. Title bar

This lies in the middle and at the top or the window. Title bar shows the program and document
titles.

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5. Rulers
Word has two rulers - a horizontal ruler and a vertical ruler. The horizontal ruler appears just
beneath the Ribbon and is used to set margins and tab stops. The vertical ruler appears on the left
edge of the Word window and is used to gauge the vertical position of elements on the page.

6. Help (Tell me what you want to do)

This option can be used to get word related help anytime you like. This provides nice tutorial on
various subjects related to word.

7. Zoom Control
Zoom control lets you zoom in for a closer look at your text. The zoom control consists of a
slider that you can slide left or right to zoom in or out and + buttons you can click to increase or
decrease the zoom factor.

8. View Buttons

The group of three buttons located to the left of the Zoom control, near the bottom of the screen,
lets you switch among Word's various document views.

Read Mode: This gives a full screen look of the document.

Print Layout: This displays pages exactly as they will appear when printed.

Web Layout: This shows how a document appears when viewed by a Web browser, such as
Internet Explorer.

9. Document Area

The area where you type. The flashing vertical bar is called the insertion point and it represents
the location where text will appear when you type.

10. Status Bar

This displays document information as well as the insertion point location. From left to right, this
bar contains the total number of pages and words in the document, language etc.

You can configure the status bar by right-clicking anywhere on it and by selecting or deselecting
options from the provided list as shown below.

11. Dialog Box Launcher:

This appears as very small arrow in the lower-right corner of many groups on the Ribbon .
Clicking this button opens a dialog box or task pane that provides more options about the group.