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MS Word Home Tab and Functions

The Home tab in MS Word provides quick access to commonly used formatting tools. It includes options for font style and size, paragraph formatting like bullets and numbering, text alignment, and styles. Buttons allow applying bold, italics and other character styles. Groups provide tools for editing text like find and replace, selecting objects, and viewing document structure like paragraph marks.

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MS Word Home Tab and Functions

The Home tab in MS Word provides quick access to commonly used formatting tools. It includes options for font style and size, paragraph formatting like bullets and numbering, text alignment, and styles. Buttons allow applying bold, italics and other character styles. Groups provide tools for editing text like find and replace, selecting objects, and viewing document structure like paragraph marks.

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MS Word Home Tab

and Functions
Home Tab
Home Tab
 This is the tab that has almost everything you need when
completing a word document. You can change your font,
font size, paragraph orientation, add bullets, etc.
 This tab gives you access to the most commonly used
commands and is displayed by default when you open an
instance of Word. This tab is reasonably consistent
across Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
Home Tab
 Clipboard
You can quickly display
the Clipboard task
pane by clicking on
the dialog launcher in
the bottom right
corner of this group.
Home Tab
Paste
Button with Drop-Down.
The drop-down contains
the commands:
Paste, Paste Special and
Paste as Hyperlink.
Home Tab
 Cut
(Ctrl + X). Cuts the current
selection to the clipboard.
 Copy

(Ctrl + C). Copies the current


selection to the clipboard.
Home Tab
 Format Painter
(Ctrl + Shift + C). Copies the
formatting from one place
in a document and lets you
apply it somewhere else.
This works across multiple
documents.
Home Tab

 Font
This group provides access to all the Character
Formatting commands. You can quickly
display the "Font" dialog box, Font Tab, by
clicking on the dialog box launcher in the
bottom right corner of this group.
Home Tab

 Font - (Ctrl + Shift + F). Provides a list of all


the available fonts (based on your current
printer selection).
 Font Size - (Ctrl + Shift + P). Lets you adjust
the character size (based on your current
printer selection).
Home Tab

 Grow Font
(Ctr + >). Increases the font size of the
current selection to the next larger
size in the Font Size box. This was
called Increase Font in Word 2003.
Home Tab

 Shrink Font
(Ctrl + <). Decreases the font size of the
current selection to the next smaller
size in the Font Size box. This was
called Decrease Font in Word 2003.
Home Tab

 Change Case
Drop-Down. Changes the selected text to either
uppercase, lowercase or another type of capitalization.
The drop-down contains the commands: Sentence
Case, Lowercase, Uppercase, Capitalize Each
Word and Toggle Case.
Home Tab

 Clear All Formatting - (Ctrl +


Spacebar). Clears all the formatting
from the current selection.
 Bold - (Ctrl + B). Toggles bold on the
current selection.
Home Tab

 Italic
(Ctrl + I). Toggles italics on the
current selection.
Home Tab

 Underline - (Ctrl + U). Button with Drop-


Down. The button toggles bold on the current
selection. The drop-down contains the
commands: Underline, Double Underline,
Thick Underline, Dotted Underline,
Dashed Underline.
Home Tab

 Strikethrough - Draws a line through


the middle of the selected text.
 Subscript - (Ctrl + =). Converts the
selection to small letters below the text
baseline.
Home Tab

 Superscript - (Ctrl + Shift + +).


Converts the selection to small letters
above the text baseline.
 Text Effects and Typography -
Home Tab

 Text Highlight Color - Button with Drop-


Down. Shades the background behind the
current selection. The drop-down contains the
commands: No Color and Stop
Highlighting. For more details please refer
to the Characters > Text Highlight page.
Home Tab

Font Color - Button with Drop-Down. The


button changes the color of the font of the
current selection. The drop-down contains the
commands: Automatic, Theme Colors,
Standard Colors and More Colors.
Home Tab

Paragraph

This group provides access to all the Paragraph Formatting


commands.
You can quickly display the "Paragraph" dialog box, Indents

and Spacing Tab, by clicking on the dialog box launcher in the


bottom right corner of this group.
Home Tab

Bullets - Button with Drop-Down. The button toggles single level


bullets from the selected paragraphs. The drop-down contains the
commands: Recently Used Bullets, Bullet Library, Document
Bullets, Change List Level and Define New Bullet. The Change
List Level extension displays levels 1 to 9. The Define New Bullet
displays the "Define New Bullet" dialog box.
Home Tab

Numbering - Button with Drop-Down. The button toggles


single level numbering from the selected paragraphs. The
drop-down contains the commands: Recently Used
Numbering, Change List Level, Define New Number
Format and Set Numbering Value.
Home Tab

Multilevel List - Drop-Down. The drop-down contains the


commands: Current List, List Library, Change List Level, Define
New Multilevel List and Define New List Style. A multilevel list
shows the list of items at different levels, rather than just at one level.
This was previously accessible from the Outline Numbered tab on the
Bullets & Numbering dialog box and has replaced Outline numbering.
Please refer to the Bullets > Multilevel List for more details.
Home Tab

Decrease Indent
Decreases the indent by 1 or removes the indent
completely.
Increase Indent

Increases the indent by 1.


Home Tab

Sort - Displays the "Sort Text" or "Sort" dialog boxes allowing you
to sort paragraphs of text or text within tables. If your current
selection is not in a table then the "Sort Text" dialog box is
displayed. If the current selection is in a Table then the "Sort" dialog
box is displayed. This command was previously on the Table drop-
down in 2003 but now appears both on the Home Tab and Table
Tools - Layout contextual tab.
Home Tab

Show/Hide Paragraph Marks


(Ctrl + *). Toggles the display of paragraph marks
and other hidden formatting.
Align Left

(Ctrl + L). Aligns text to the left.


Home Tab

Center - (Ctrl + E). Aligns text to the center.


Align Right - (Ctrl + R). Aligns text to the right.

Justify - (Ctrl + J). Aligns text to both left and

right margins adding extra space between words


where necessary.
Home Tab

Line Spacing - Drop-Down. The drop-down contains the


commands: 1.0, 1.15, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, Line Spacing
Options, Add Space Before Paragraph and Add
Space After Paragraph. The Line Spacing Options
command displays the "Paragraphs" dialog box (Indents
and Spacing tab). The default line spacing is 1.15.
Home Tab

Shading - Button with Drop-Down. The button


applies the selected shading to the current
selection. The drop-down contains the
commands: Theme Colors, Standard Colors,
No Color and More Colors.
Home Tab

Border - Button with Drop-Down. The button applies the selected


border to the current selection. The drop-down contains the
commands: Bottom Border, Top Border, Left Border, Right
Border, No Border, All Borders, Outside Borders, Inside
Borders, Inside Horizontal Border, Inside Vertical Border,
Diagonal Down Border, Diagonal Up Border, Horizontal Line,
Draw Table, View Gridlines and Borders and Shading.
Home Tab

Styles
You can quickly toggle the display of the Styles
Task Pane by clicking on the dialog box launcher
in the bottom right corner of this group.
Home Tab

Quick Styles - Displays a gallery of available


styles (with auto preview). Is the Heading 1 style
different in 2007 and 2010 to 2003? Yes the
Normal template and styles are very different.
Home Tab

Change Styles - Drop-Down. (Removed in 2013). Lets you quickly change the
style set, color/theme and font of a style. The drop-down contains the commands:
Style Set, Colors, Fonts and Set as Default. The Style Set extension contains
the commands: Default (Black and White), Distinctive, Elegant, Fancy,
Formal, Manuscript, Modern, Simple, Traditional, Word 2003, Word 2007,
Reset to Quick Styles from Template, Reset Document Quick Styles and
Save as Quick Style Set. The height of this extension can be adjusted.
Home Tab
Editing
Find - Button with Drop-Down. The button

displays the "Find and Replace" dialog box and


displays the Find tab. The drop-down contains
the commands: Find and GoTo. The GoTo tab
can also be displayed by clicking on the Page: 1
of 2 indicator on the status bar in the bottom left
corner.
Home Tab
Replace - This
displays the "Find and
Replace" dialog box
and displays the
Replace tab.
Home Tab
Select - Drop-Down. The drop-
down contains the commands:
Select All, Select Objects and
Select Text with similar
Formatting. The Select Text will
select text with similar formatting.
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Created by:
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September 2020

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