If you’ve used a computer, you will most likely also have used Microsoft Word to create documents for work, school or life. Word, it is easy for anyone to quickly create, edit and share professional-looking documents. Here are some tips to help you get exactly what they need or want to use Microsoft Word.
The use of bold, italic and underlined
To do something bold, italic or underlined, that’s what we do. First, highlight the text you want affected. To celebrate, take your mouse and left click at the beginning of their choice so that the cursor appears. Then, keep the left click and drag the mouse until the end of your selection.
To select the entire contents of your document, choose Select All. Or you can press short key ctrl + A or click the Edit menu at the top of the screen and choose Select All. Press CTRL + B for bold, CTRL + I for italics, and CTRL + U for underline
Prevent page breaks in paragraphs
The document can include a paragraph split into separate pages. This May not be ideal for you. By default, Word is divided into sections separated pages. To change this, follow these steps:
• Select a paragraph or group of items, and click the button
• Select the paragraph in the menu
• When the dialog box that appears, select the line and page breaks
• Keep checking lines
• Click OK to close the dialog box
Centering and page alignments
There are four buttons to control your character, these buttons are located on top of the Word (near the B, I and U buttons). They include align left, center, align right, justify the alignments what you want.
Align right is good to get some business cards and want something that the alignment on the right side of the page. It’s great to justify the articles and decide to align your text to the left and right.
Full screen mode
When you edit a document in Microsoft Word, the work is shared with toolbars, a menu bar, a status bar and toolbar / system tray. If you want to hide, but your document, click View and select Full Screen. Press the ESC key for returning to normal view, or select Close full screen full screen on the toolbar that appears. You can also move the mouse pointer toward the top of the screen to access menu items.
Keyboard shortcuts for Save and Save As
For example, to save the document, click Ctrl + S. It is a good habit of doing every two minutes when you work on something. The first time you press, you have the name of your file.
To put something under a new name you want to Save As. Instead of reaching for the mouse and go to File and select "Save As", the hands do not have to leave the keyboard! Just press ALT + F, then press A, then give name to your file and choose a any location to save it default is usually My Documents or you can choose the save position.
Keyboard shortcuts for the tasks menu
You can use keyboard shortcuts for tasks you would normally achieve with a menu. When you are in a menu, notice that the keyboard shortcut next to the options list provided, or a letter is underlined.
Underline options means ALT, then press the menu on the underlined letter (F for the file, for example), and then focused on the letter of their choice in this menu.
