Chapter–7
Familiarization With Word (Office 365)
Microsoft Word is the most popular and easiest Word Processing Software.
Microsoft Word allows us to create a variety of documents, including letters,
resumes, and more.
Steps to Open the Microsoft Word in Online Mode
1. Open any Internet Browser.
2. Click on address bar and write the website address of Microsoft Office and
press Go Button or press Enter button.
3. An Office 365 account login window appears.
4. Type your ID and password in the given area then click on Sign In button.
5. Finally Dashboard appears of Office 365.
Components and Tabs of Word
1. Quick Access Toolbar: It is present at the left top corner of the application
window that provides tools to quickly perform some actions like Save, Undo,
Redo and Print.
2. Title Bar: It is present at the top of the application window showing the name
of Application and document that is currently opened.
3. Ribbon: The Ribbon was first introduced in Office 2007. It is divided up into
tabs. These tabs are the menus.
4. Tabs: These are menus that contains commands and tools related to them. The
Word Ribbon has Home, Insert, Design, Layout, References, Mailings, Review
and View tabs as shown in the above image.
5. Ribbon Display Options/ Menus: It is present at the Right top corner of the
application window that contain commands to minimize, maximize or close
the application window as well as show or hide tabs.
6. Document/ Work Area: This is the white area present at the center of the
application window where a user type the content, paste images, etc. of a
document.
7. Status Bar: The bottom most bar of the application window that consists of
Document Information region.
8. File tab: It consists of buttons such as info, new, open, Save as, Print, Share,
About, Help.
9. Home tab: It consists of undo group, font group, paragraph group, styles
group and editing.
10. Insert tab: It consists of page breaks, tables, pictures, links, comments header
and footer, footnotes, symbols and emoticons.
11. Page layout tab: It consists of page setup and paragraph group.
12. Review tab: It consists of proofing, word count, accessibility and process
groups.
13. View tab: It consists of document views, show and zoom groups.
14. Share button: Share button is used to share our files with other people.
Steps to Creating a New Document
1. Click on File Tab.
2. Choose the New command.
3. Select Blank Document from the given options on the right panel.
Steps to save a document
1. Click the File tab.
2. Choose the Save As command.
3. The Save As screen appears.
4. To save your file, choose location for the document.
5. Type a name for your document in the File Name box.
6. Click the Save button.
Steps to save a file on One Drive
1. Click the File tab.
2. Choose the Save As command.
3. The Save As screen appears.
4. To save your file in OneDrive choose location as OneDrive–Personal.
5. Type a name for your document in the File Name box.
6. Click the Save button.
