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Microsoft Word 2010 Tutorial
Microsoft Word 2010 is a word-processing program, designed to help you create professional-quality documents. With the finest documentformatting tools, Word helps you organize and write your documents more efficiently. Word also includes powerful editing and revising tools
so that you can collaborate with others easily.

The Ribbon
Understanding the Ribbonis a great way to help understand the changes between Microsoft 2003 to Microsoft 2010. The ribbon holds all of
the information in previous versions of Microsoft Office in a more visual stream line manner through a series of tabs that include a n immense
variety of program features.
Home Tab
This is the most used tab; it incorporates all text formatting features such as font and paragraphchanges.

Insert Tab
This tab allows you to insert a variety of items into a document from pictures, clip art, tables and headers and footers.

Page Layout Tab
This tab has commands to adjust page elements such as margins, orientation, inserting columns, page backgrounds and themes.

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Reference Tab
This tab hascommands to use when creating a Table of Contents and citation page for a paper. It provides you with many simple solutions to
create these typically difficult to produce documents.

Mailing Tab
This tab allows you to create documents to help when sending out mailings such as printing envelopes, labels and processing mail merges.

Review Tab
This tab allows you to make any changes to your documentdue to spelling and grammar issues. It also holds the track changes feature
which provides people with the ability to make notes and changes to a document of another person.

View Tab
This tab allows you to change the view of your document to a different two page document or zoom.

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Getting Started
Now that youhave an understanding of where things are located, let’s look at the steps needed to create
a document.
Opening Outlook
You may have a shortcut to Word on your desktop, if so double click the
icon and Word will open. If not
follow the steps below:
1. Click on the Start button
2. Highlight Programs
3. Highlight Microsoft Office
4. Click on Microsoft W ord 2010

Create a New Document
1.Click the File tab and then click
New.
2. Under Available Templates,
click Blank Document.
3. Click Create.
Using Templates
Word 2010 allows you to apply built-in templates from a wide selection of popular Word templates,
including resumes, agendas, business cards, and faxes.
To find and apply a template in Word, do the following:
1. On the File tab, click New.
2. Under AvailableTemplates, do one of the following:
To use one of the built-in templates, click Sample Templates, click the template that you want,
and then click Create.
To reuse a template that you’ve recently used, click Recent Templates, click the template that
you want, and then click Create.
To find a template on Office.com, under Office.com Templates, click the template category that
you want, click thetemplate that you want, and click Download to download the template from
Office.com to your computer.
3. Once you have selected your template you can modify it in any way to create the document you
want.
NOTE: You can also search for templates on Office.com from within Word. In the Search Office.com
for templates box, type one or more search terms, and then click the arrow button to search.Opening a document
1. Click the File tab, and then click Open.
2. In the left pane of the Open dialog box, click the drive or folder that contains the document.
3. In the right pane of the Open dialog box, open the folder that contains the document that you want.
4. Click the document and then click Open.

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