MS Word
MS Word
Title bar This bar is located at the top of the window, and it
displays the name of the active document along with the
application name. If you’re working with a document that
hasn’t been saved, a name such as Document1—Word is
displayed. .
Status bar The status bar is located at the bottom of the window and displays information about the current document, such as
the page and word count. On the far right end of the status bar are the viewing options for switching your document to a
different view, along with a zoom slider to change the magnification of your active document.
Modifying your document view
You can modify how Word displays a document on your screen by changing the document view and zoom level on the View tab.
Read Mode The new Read Mode is optimized for reading and hides the ribbon and other elements that aren’t specific to reading a document. Read
Mode allows you to zoom in on objects, like pictures and charts, and adjust the column layout. This view is also the default view when you open a
document from an Internet source, such as an email attachment .
Print Layout This is the default view for. In this view for Word. Your document looks almost identical to how it will look when it’s printed. All page
margins and other elements of your document are displayed, such as multiple columns, tables, graphics, headers, and footers.
Web Layout This view is used when creating a webpage or a blog post. Similar to viewing a webpage, text will wrap to the size of your window and
zoom setting, rather than page margins. Objects like pictures and charts will align differently than in other views and will appear as they will be
displayed when viewed in a web browser.
Outline view The Outline view shows the document’s organization according to paragraphs that have been formatted with a heading style, such as
Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3. In Outline view, you can choose to show only specific heading levels and quickly rearrange entire sections of
your document by dragging a collapsed section to another location.
Draft view Draft view displays the page margins and headers; the footers are suppressed. However, Draft view also suppresses the view of objects, such
as pictures and charts, and multi-column layouts are displayed as a single column.
Working with outline view
Working with
• Margins
• Indents
• Tabs
• Alignment
• Spacing
• Bullets and numbering
• Page margin
• Orientation
• Header and footers
• Insert page break
• Comment
• Page borders
Using paragraph formatting options
Understanding the use of tab
Inserting symbols,
international characters,
and other special
characters