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A first look at Excel 2007/2010

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the first part of our Excel tutorials, we'll explain what you will see when the programme first starts. We're not going to explain what a spreadsheet is, and assume that you already know. If you don't, we have an introduction here:</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/ME/mes1p1.html">What is a Spreadsheet?</a></div>
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Launch your Excel software. When the programme starts, you'll see something like this in Excel 2007:</div>
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Excel Main Screen (Opens in a new window 67KB)</div>
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In newer versions of Excel, you may see a screen like this one first (Excel 2013):</div>
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Excel 2013 Main Screen (Opens in a new window 33KB)</div>
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To create a new spreadsheet in Excel 2013, click one of the templates. For this course, we'll be using the <b>Blank Workbook</b> temple. Click on that option from the list available. You'll be taken to the main spreadsheet area.</div>
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If you've ever used a previous version of Excel then you'll notice that the new version looks quite different! Even if you have never used Excel, the software looks quite intimidating. But we'll make a gentle start, so that you can get used to the way everything works.</div>
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The first thing to notice is the Ribbon running right across the top. The Ribbon is supposed to be more intuitive than drop-down menus. Emphasis is placed on the tools and options appropriate to what you're doing. Here's a closer look at the Ribbon when Excel first starts (it's split in half, here):</div>
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<img alt="Ribbon Left Half" border="1" height="123" src="http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/excel2007/images/2010/RibbonLeftHalf.gif" width="545" /><br /><i>Left Side of the Ribbon in Excel 2007</i></div>
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<img alt="Ribbon Right Half" border="1" height="123" src="http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/excel2007/images/2010/RibbonRightHalf.gif" width="557" /><br /><i>Right Side of the Ribbon in Excel 2007</i></div>
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<img height="138" src="http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/excel2007/images/2010/ribbon_left_excel2010.gif" width="627" /><br /><i>Left Side of the Ribbon in Excel 2010 and 2013</i></div>
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<img src="http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/excel2007/images/2010/ribbon_right_excel2010.gif" /><br /><i>Right Side of the Ribbon in Excel 2010 and 2013</i></div>
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Notice that in both versions the Home tab is the one that is selected. Other tabs are: Insert, Page Layout, Formulas, Data, Review and View. (In the image above, there's also a Developer tab. If you don't do any programming then you don't have to worry about this tab.)</div>
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In the top left of the Ribbon in Excel 2007 there's a big circle. This one:</div>
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Click this, and you'll see all the file operations: <b>New</b>, <b>Open</b>, <b>Save</b>, <b>Exit</b>, etc.</div>
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<img alt="File Operations in Excel 2007" height="441" src="http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/excel2007/images/FileMenu.gif" width="433" /></div>
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To see the same menu in Excel 2010, you have to click on the File tab, which is on the far left. (It looks as though it's already selected, but it's not.):</div>
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Excel 2013 also has a File menu like the one above. When you click the File menu in Excel 2013, however, you'll see this instead:</div>
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<img alt="Excel 2013 File menu" height="357" src="http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/excel2007/images/2013/section1/file_menu2.gif" width="635" /></div>
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To get back to your spreadsheet in Excel 2013, click the left-pointing arrow in the top left:</div>
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We'll go through all these menu options later, along with the various options on the Ribbon tabs. But the best place to start with Excel is getting to grips with all those numbers and letters. These are the Grid Coordinates. We'll do that in the next part.</div>
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A first look at Excel 2007/2010

In the first part of our Excel tutorials, we'll explain what you will see when the programme first starts. We're not going to expla...

How To Save Your Document As A Web Page In Word

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Saving Microsoft Word documents as web pages used to be all the rage in the 1990s. However, unless you really must do this, this practice is to be avoided. Web pages are created using HTML (Hyper Text Mark Up Language) and you are better off using a tool designed to create HTML. I code HTML using a simple text editor, whereas other people use dedicated coding tools like Dreamweaver.</div>
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Microsoft Word Produces Code Bloat</h2>
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One of the problems of using Microsoft Word to create a web page from your document is that lots of unnecessary code gets generated along with the HTML markup. Much of this code is informational only, as it is commented out. With Word being a Microsoft product, you can bet that the code generated is geared to the non-standard browser that is Internet Explorer, too.</div>
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Styles are embedded in the content (bad!), and they are coded clumsily. The "code bloat" is so bad that I took a very simple Word document that was already an unecessarily large 27KB and saved it as a web page. The new HTML file was a staggering 62KB! Don't do it kids.</div>
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However, if you really must use Word to create a web page from your document, here is how to do it: click the File tab > Save As, and change the Save as type box to be <strong>Web Page (*.htm; *.html)</strong>. The .htm and .html file extensions indicate HTML markup.</div>
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You'll then notice a HTML version of your document in Windows Explorer. Usually, you can see what this web page looks like by double clicking on it, and it will open in your default internet browser.</div>
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How To Save Your Document As A Web Page In Word

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How To Save Your Document In Word

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It's a good idea to save your document as soon as you create it in Microsoft Word and then keep saving it periodically as you make changes. It's no fun to make drastic changes to a document, have your PC crash and then lose all your hard work. Fortunately, saving documents is easy.</div>
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As soon as you create a new document, you can save it by pressing ctrl-s. If you haven't yet saved the document (and you won't have if you're just in the process of creating it), the Save As dialogue box will open. Give the document a name in the File name box (the text here is highlighted straight away, so as soon as you start typing, it will overwrite the current default name), and navigate to a location on your hard drive where you'd like to save the document. Click Save.</div>
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Once you've done the initial save, all incremental saves can be performed in a split second by pressing ctrl-s. You won't be bothered again by the Save As dialogue box, unless you choose to rename your document by clicking the File tab > Save As.</div>
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Autosaving In Word</h2>
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In addition to the manual saving you can do in Word, there is also the Autosave function that will prevent you from losing changes. This feature is a godsend for those people who save their documents infrequently. The autosave function instructs Word to save your document after a certain amount of time has elapsed. You can configure the autosave settings by clicking the File tab > Word > Options > Save.</div>
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How To Save Your Document In Word

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How To Print In Word

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With the introduction of Backstage View in Microsoft Word 2010, the process of printing out documents now appears very much different. To see the printing options available, click the File tab > Print. The following panel will be displayed (click on the image to enlarge it).</div>
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Using this panel you can control:</div>
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Print Preview In Word</h2>
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The old way of presenting a print preview of your document has become obsolete. Now, the print preview appears to the right of the print settings. You can page through your document by clicking on the page scroller at the bottom (the left and right arrows), you can jump to a particular page by typing it into the input box and pressing Enter, and you can also use the page up and page down keys on your keyboard to navigate the document.</div>
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Changing Printer Properties In Word</h2>
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Sprinkled throughout the Microsoft Word 2010 user interface are links that perform commands. It's odd to see links instead of buttons on a modern interface, but I'm sure Microsoft know what they're doing! On the print panel, there are links to change the Printer Properties (at the top) and also the page setup (at the bottom).</div>
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How To Shade Tables In Word

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Microsoft Word 2010 removes much of the need to spend time getting the shading right on tables in your documents. The table styles that come with Word provide a rich selection of different styles you can apply to your tables. Live Previews let you see what those styles look like without having to apply them. To apply a table style, place the cursor in any cell of your table and then click Table Tools > Design > Table Styles > More Button (bottom right of the Table Styles group). The following panel appears, displaying thumbnail images of the table styles available for us to choose.</div>
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These table styles offer combinations of borders and shading, some emphasizing header rows and some alternating row colours.</div>
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You can even format your table the way you want it to appear and then save it as a new table style. To do this, click Table Tools > Design > Table Styles > More Button > New Table Style, and the Create New Style from Formatting window will open.</div>
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Name the style and ensure that Style type is set to "table". Make sure the other selections are correct (the default settings are usually appropriate) and then click OK.</div>
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The shading described above is applied using ready made table styles. However, you can apply your own table shading without using table styles. Select a cell or range of cells and then click Table Tools > Design > Table Styles > Shading. Select a colour from the panel that opens and that colour will be applied as shading.</div>
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How To Shade Tables In Word

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How To Move Add A Border To A Table In Word

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Microsoft Word 2010 gives you a lot of flexibility in specifying borders for your tables. To have a look at the border options, first of all select your table by right clicking anywhere in it and then choosing Select > Table. In the Table Tools contextual tab, click Design > Table Styles > Borders (the down arrow to the right of the Borders button).</div>
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The options here give you the ability to select all combinations of borders for the table: left, right, top and bottom, outside, inside etc. These options control which borders are displayed. To change the properties of the borders, i.e. the way they look, you'll need to use the Borders and Shading option at the bottom of the Borders menu. This option allows you to change the following properties of a border:</div>
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Often, you'll want to use a table to align objects on your page. In this case, the reader doesn't need to see the borders at all. To make the borders invisible, you can select the table and then click Table Tools > Design > Table Styles > Borders > No Border.</div>
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How To Move A Table In Word

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To move a table around your Microsoft Word document, all you have to do is drag and drop it. When you hover your mouse over any part of the table, a four way handle inside a small box is displayed at the top left corner of the table.</div>
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You can click and drag on this handle to move the table around your document. The only problem with this method is that it's sometimes hard to drop the table precisely where you need it. Many people use a different and more accurate method of moving their tables. Basically, they just cut their table and then paste it where in the document they need it.</div>
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To do this, first of all you'll need to select your table. Right click anywhere in the table > Select > Table. All the cells in the table will be highlighted. Press ctrl-x on the keyboard to "cut" the table and then place your cursor where you want the table to go. Press ctrl-v to paste the table. Sometimes you'll inadvertently copy some leading or trailing characters when you cut your table, but you can easily get rid of them after you've pasted it.</div>
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How To Move A Table In Word

To move a table around your Microsoft Word document, all you have to do is drag and drop it. When you hover your mouse over any part of th...

How To Move A Table In Word

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To move a table around your Microsoft Word document, all you have to do is drag and drop it. When you hover your mouse over any part of the table, a four way handle inside a small box is displayed at the top left corner of the table.</div>
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You can click and drag on this handle to move the table around your document. The only problem with this method is that it's sometimes hard to drop the table precisely where you need it. Many people use a different and more accurate method of moving their tables. Basically, they just cut their table and then paste it where in the document they need it.</div>
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To do this, first of all you'll need to select your table. Right click anywhere in the table > Select > Table. All the cells in the table will be highlighted. Press ctrl-x on the keyboard to "cut" the table and then place your cursor where you want the table to go. Press ctrl-v to paste the table. Sometimes you'll inadvertently copy some leading or trailing characters when you cut your table, but you can easily get rid of them after you've pasted it.</div>
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How To Move A Table In Word

To move a table around your Microsoft Word document, all you have to do is drag and drop it. When you hover your mouse over any part of th...

How To Delete A Table In Word

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There is a very quick way to delete a table in Microsoft Word 2010, that doesn't even involve selecting the table first. Place the cursor in a cell in the table and notice that the Table Tools contextual tab appears in the ribbon. Click Layout > Rows & Columns > Delete > Delete Table.</div>
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Doing this removes the table from your document.</div>
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Another way to delete a table is to first of all select it and then delete it. There are two ways of selecting a table: using commands in the ribbon and using the right click menu. Let's look at using the ribbon first. Place the cursor into any cell in the table and notice that the Table Tools contextual tab appears in the ribbon. Click Layout > Table > Select > Select Table.</div>
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When you select a whole table, all the cells within are highlighted. Pressing the backspace key now will delete the table, whereas pressing the delete key will simply delete all the contents of the table.</div>
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The other way of selecting a table is to right click anywhere in the table > Select > Table, and then proceed as above.</div>
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How To Delete A Table In Word

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How To Insert A Table In Word

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In addition to using tables to present tabular data in a Microsoft Word document, you might also use a table to align blocks of text or other objects. To insert a table, click Insert > Tables > Table.</div>
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The panel that is displayed gives a representation of the tables that you could insert. In the image, I've hovered over the square that lies in the third column and fourth row. Clicking on that square, therefore, will insert a table with three columns and four rows. Indeed, as you hover over different squares, Word tells you at the top of the panel how many rows and columns your table will have. When you find a square that corresponds to the number of rows and columns you need, click on it and the table will be inserted into your document. The table is placed where your cursor is currently positioned.</div>
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Another way of adding a table to your Word document is to use the Insert Table option on the above panel.</div>
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In the Insert Table window that appears, you can specify the number of rows and columns you want your table to have, and you can also specify:</div>
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How To Insert A Table In Word

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How To Format Text In Microsoft Word

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Formatting text in Microsoft Word involves tasks like bolding the text, italicising it, and changing the font and size. The commands to perform all of these formatting tasks are found on the Home tab in the Font group. Select your text and then click on the required formatting button to see the effects.</div>
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Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcuts for those commands. Here are the shortcuts for some of the more commonly used formatting commands:</div>
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<li i="">Italic: ctrl-i
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You can also set the formatting before you type by clicking the appropriate button or using the shortcut, and then anything you subsequently type will be formatted. To unset the formatting, you click the same command button or use the same shortcut. So you can see that these commands act like toggles.</div>
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The Mini Tool bar In Word</h2>
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You may notice that as soon as you select a block of text, a mini toolbar appears from nowhere. This tool bar displays the more popular formatting commands that you are most likely to use, to save you time.</div>
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How To Format Text In Microsoft Word

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Animating Text In Microsoft Word

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In versions of Microsoft Word up to and including Word 2003, you could apply text animations. However, the ability to add text efects and text animations was removed from the ribbon in Word 2007. If you know your VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), you can add it back, but we won't be covering that here.</div>
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If you are running a version of Word prior to 2007, you can add text animation by selecting your text and then clicking Format > Font. When the Font dialogue box opens, click on the Text Effects tab. Choose the type of animation you want by clicking on its name. You can have the choice of the following animations:</div>
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When you click OK, the animation will be applied to the selected text.</div>
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Text Animation In Word 2007</h2>
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Since text animation was available in versions prior to Word 2007, it could be present in older documents. Therefore, even though you are using Word 2007, you might still see text animations. How frustrating to see them but not be able to apply them! Well, there is a sneaky way to create text animation in Word 2007: open up an old document that does contain text animation, select the animated text and copy it (ctrl-c). Paste it (ctrl-v) into your new document. If you continue typing at the end of that text, the animation will be applied to the new text you type.</div>
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To Display Or Hide Text Animation</h2>
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To display or hide a text animation in Microsoft Word 2003, click Tools > Options > View, and then select or clear the Animated text check box.</div>
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Animating Text In Microsoft Word

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Bullets In Word

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You can add bullets in Microsoft Word to differentiate between the different points you want to make. The bulleted points form a list. Word allows you to create both bulleted lists and numbered lists.</div>
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To start a bullet list, click on the bullets command button in the ribbon and then start typing.</div>
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Whenever you press Enter, a new bullet point will be created. If you press Enter twice, Word will realise that you have finished the list and will stop creating new bullets. If you want to create a sub list, you can press the tab key. The sub list will be indented, as shown below.</div>
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As with the first level of the list, pressing Enter twice ends the current list and will return to the previous list.</div>
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If you have already typed out some text that could be used as a bulleted list, you can select the text and then click the bullet icon and bullets will be applied.</div>
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Changing The Style Of A Bulleted List</h2>
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If after creating a bulleted list you decide to change the type of bullets used, first of all select the list and then click the down arrow to the right of the bullet command. Here, you can select from all the different bullet types available.</div>
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Creating A Numbered List</h2>
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Creating a numbered list in Word is very similar to creating a bulleted list, except you click on the numbered list command instead.</div>
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As you've probably guessed, one of the differences between bulleted lists and numbered lists is that numbered lists are sequential. That is, position in the list matters. If you want to, you can change the number that the list starts at. To do that, select the numbered list and click the down arrow to the right of the numbered list button and then select Set Numbering Value.</div>
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In the Set Numbering Value dialogue box, amend the Set Value To to be the starting number of the list.</div>
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Bullets In Word

You can add bullets in Microsoft Word to differentiate between the different points you want to make. The bulleted points form a list. Wor...

Move Text Around Your Word Document

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Sometimes, you will need to move portions of text around your Microsoft Word document after you have finished typing it. To do so, first of all select the text you want to move, and then do one of the following:</div>
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Often, people use tables to align different blocks of text. If you do use tables, you'll find it easy to select a block of text you'd like to move as jumping from table cell to table cell by pressing the tab key automatically selects the entire text in a particular cell.</div>
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Moving Text Between Two Word Documents</h2>
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It's possible to move text between two different Word documents. To do this you will have to resize at least one Word window so that you can see both documents at the same time. Then you can select the text and drag it across into the new document.</div>
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You may be surprised to know that you can actually move text between different Microsoft Office applications, too. Using the same principle described above, you can move text from a Word document to an Excel spreadsheet, for example. Or even a PowerPoint presentation.</div>
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Move Text Around Your Word Document

Sometimes, you will need to move portions of text around your Microsoft Word document after you have finished typing it. To do so, first o...

Type Anywhere In Your Microsoft Word Document

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If you are familiar with Microsoft Office 1997, you may remember the days when to start typing in teh middle of a Word document, you had to press the Enter key repeatedly. After numerous blank lines, the cursor would be at the position you wanted to start typing. Since Word 2000, however, there has been a much easier way to position the cursor where you need it.</div>
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When you open a new Word document, simply double click where you want to start typing... and type.</div>
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Justification</h3>
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As you hover the mouse over different parts of your document, you will notice a justification symbol that appears and is dependant on where in the document your mouse is. When you double click, the justification currently displayed is the one that is used for the text you type. For example, if you double click to the left of the page, Word will left align your text. If you double click to the right of the page, right aligned text is created and if you double click in the centre of the page you will get centred text.</div>
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The following image shows the justification symbol that is displayed depending on the mouse's location.</div>
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How To Use The Thesaurus In Word

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In addition to the spell checking and grammar checking tools that Microsoft Word offers, there is also the Word thesaurus we can take advantage of to improve our documents. Using the thesaurus, you can find synonyms (different words with the same meaning) and antonyms (words with the opposite meaning).</div>
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In Microsoft Office Word you can look up a word quickly if you right-click anywhere in your document, and then click Synonym on the shortcut menu.</div>
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Let's have a look at the thesaurus in Word now: click Review > Proofing > Thesaurus. The Research pane opens on the right hand side of the workspace.</div>
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Type in a word into the Search for box and press Enter. Alternatively, press ALT on the keyboard and click a word in your document. Word displays a list of alternatives that you can use. If you find a word in the list that you'd like to use, click on the down arrow that appears to the right and select Insert.</div>
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If you had selected a word in your document, the word you select in the Research pane will replace it. If not, the word will simply be inserted into your document where the cursor was positioned.</div>
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If you want to continue your research and look up further synonyms for another word in the list, click on it. That word will be placed in the Search for box and its synonyms will be displayed in the list.</div>
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How To Use The Thesaurus In Word

In addition to the spell checking and grammar checking tools that Microsoft Word offers, there is also the Word thesaurus we can take adva...

How To Check Spelling In Microsoft Word

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When you create a Microsoft Word document for other people to read, it's important to spot and correct any spelling mistakes or grammatical errors you've made. You can let Word's spelling and grammar checkers suggest corrections automatically while you work, or you can check the spelling and grammar in the file all at once when you've finished writing your document. Microsoft Word 2010 comes with a dictionary of standard grammar and spellings, but they are not comprehensive.</div>
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Check Spelling And Grammar All At Once</h2>
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Let's look at how to check spelling and grammar in Word, all at once. It's a good idea to proofread your document once you've completed it, and using the Word spell checker should be part of this process. When Word highlights mistakes you've made, it offers suggestions for replacing the word, and there are several courses of action you can take:</div>
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To spell check your entire document, click Review > Proofing > Spelling & Grammar. If the program finds spelling mistakes, a dialog box or task pane appears with the first misspelled word found by the spelling checker.</div>
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After you've fixed a misspelled word using the above steps, Word moves onto the next one misspelled. Once the spelling mistakes are complete Word moves onto grammar checking. You can resolve grammar issues in the same way.</div>
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Check Spelling And Grammar Automatically</h2>
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Microsoft Word can flag misspelled words while you type so that you can easily locate them, as in the following example:</div>
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When you right click on the misspelled word, Word offers you suggestions for corrections.</div>
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As you can see, the right click menu offers you other options, such as ignoring the word and adding it to the dictionary.</div>
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Word highlights misspelled words by underlining them with a red squiggle, and grammatical errors by underlining them with a blue squiggle.</div>
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Turning Off Automatic Spelling And Grammar Checking</h2>
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By default, automatic spelling and grammar checking is turned on. However, if you want to turn it off, click the File tab > Help > Options > Proofing. You can hide spelling and grammar errors using the two check boxes at the bottom of the window, and you can apply these changes to either the current document, or all new ones using the drop down list.</div>
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How To Check Spelling In Microsoft Word

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Changing The Fill Of A Shape In Word

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When you draw a shape in Microsoft Word, it has a default fill colour. However, you can change the shape's fill to be a different colour, a gradient, a picture and even a texture. Let's draw a shape now, and change the shape's fill. Click Insert > Illustrations > Shapes. Choose any shape you like and draw it on the page (click and drag). Here, I drew a basic rectangle.</div>
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To change the shape's fill, ensure that it is selected and then in the Drawing Tools contextual tab, click Shape Styles > Shape Fill. The panel that opens displays a dizzying array of theme colours for us to select for our shape's fill.</div>
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In addition to the theme colours displayed, we can also select the following options:</div>
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Changing The Fill Of A Shape In Word

When you draw a shape in Microsoft Word, it has a default fill colour. However, you can change the shape's fill to be a different colo...

Adding Borders To Picture In Word

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In previous versions of Microsoft Word, you had to right click on the picture and choose the formatting options to add a border. In Word 2010, however, the process is quicker and much more simplified. To add a border to your picture, select it and then click Pictures Tools > Picture Styles > Picture Border. Select a colour from the swatches displayed and the border will be applied to the picture.</div>
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To remove a border previously added to a picture, click Pictures Tools > Picture Styles > Picture Border > No Outline.</div>
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You have the option of specifying different attributes for the picture border using the panel shown above, as follows:</div>
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Adding Borders To Picture In Word

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How To Add Shadows To Objects In Microsoft Word

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Adding shadows to the objects you insert into your Word document can give those objects a 3D look. You can add shadows to virtually any object you can insert: pictures, Clip Art, shapes, SmartArt and charts. Many objects will display the Picture Tools contextual tab when selected, whilst others will display their own contextual tab. Whichever tab is displayed, there are options for you to add shadows to the object you inserted.</div>
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Let's keep things simple and add a picture to a Word document and then add a shadow to it. Click Insert > Picture, and navigate to a picture on your hard drive. Select it and click Insert. You should see the Picture Tools tab displayed in the ribbon. You'll find several styles in the Picture Styles group that use shadows. You can also use the Picture Effects button to apply even more styles. When we click it, we see the following panel:</div>
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A live preview for each shadow effect is available, which means that you can hover over each thumbnail to see a temporary preview of that effect applied. Click on the one you like. To remove a shadow previously applied, select the picture and click Picture Effects > Shadow > No Shadow.The effect is removed.</div>
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How To Add Shadows To Objects In Microsoft Word

Adding shadows to the objects you insert into your Word document can give those objects a 3D look. You can add shadows to virtually any ob...