ENTERING TEXT IN MICROSOFT WORD Entering Text in MS-Word is very easy. When you open a new document. You will see a blinking line called cursor. The cursor shows the position where the text is typed. You can carry on typing and not required to press the Enter key to come to the next line until you want to change paragraph. ‘The duty off@ =~ Tocorrect any error in the typing, place the cursor on the mistake, delete it and type the correction. |e Mleoaot Wort warez stare you can reste abr ogo reper rms Be weg“The Microsoft Word isa word processing sofware. you can create letters, proposals, ports, forms, et. using Inserting the text EDITING TEXT It is very important and time-saving feature of Word. After entering the text in Word document, it helps us in editing the text. We can add, delete or make changes in the typed text. Some points of editing a text are given below.or To select text on multiple lines, hold down the mouse button and drag down through the document to highlight fheseeacead ee) multiple lines. Release the mouse button.SELECTING TEXT } I aL To make changes in a document, you need to The Clipboard is a temporary select it before you can format, copy, move or u storage area where cut or copied aie text is stored before pasting SELECTING TEXT USING THE MOUSE them in some new location. To select text with the mouse follow the steps : + Position the cursor to the left of the text you want to select. + Hold down the mouse button and drag it over to La the other end of the text you want to select. Placing the cursorCOPYING AND PASTING THE TEXT The Copy and Paste options are used to copy text from one place and paste it to another place in a document. It makes a duplicate copy of the selected text but the original text remains unchanged. To copy text, follow the given steps : Step1: Select the text that you want to copy. Step2: Select Copy option from the Home menu. Step 3: Place the cursor where you want to paste the text. Selected text and Copy option of Home MenuStep 2: From the Home menu, choose Cut option. Step3: Place the cursor where you want the text to be moved. Selected Text and Cut option Paste option Step 4: Select Paste option from the Edit menu. The text will appear where the pointer is positioned.The selected text will appear in the black background. To select aword, double-click the word. To select aparagraph, triple-click the paragraph. To select an entire line of text, click the left margin next to the line. To select multiple entire lines, click to the left of a line and then drag down through the left margin. INSERTING THE TEXT Follow the given steps to insert text within the already typed text. o Place the cursor to the right of the letter where you want to insert the new text. ¢ Type the text. ¢ When you type a new text the existing text will move to the right. MOVING THE TEXT This feature is used to move the text from one location to a new location. To move the text follow the given steps : Step 1: Select the text that you want to move.DELETING A WORD o Place the cursor to the left of the word which you want to delete. + Press and hold the Ctrl key. pence cot ¢ Press the Delete key. Tf Undo command or DELETING A PARAGRAPH : button are dimmed, ¢ Select a paragraph which you want to delete. then there are no actions that can be o Press Delete or the Backspace key. reversed.DELETING THE TEXT Deleting means removing the text from a document. DELETING THE CHARACTER ¢ Place the cursor before the character which you want to delete. + Press the Delete key on the keyboard.‘Trek town oxarps ovine ot ite yd. Te Mlizach Wow award poets epoca ee lobes, poo apa omy, ha ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the right tle lazy dog. ‘The Microsoft Word is a word processing software, you can create eters, proposals, reports, forms, etc, using i. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the right ite lazy dog Text appears at another location Click again on Home menu and select Paste option. You can click Copy icon to copy and Paste icon to paste the selected text using Standard Toolbar. Or You can also press Ctrl+C ‘to copy and Ctrl+V to paste the selected text using keyboard,UNDO AND REDO OPTIONS UNDO OPTION By mistake you have deleted the line that you require, you can easily recall it without typing that line again using Undo option. Undo option reverses the last command. Click the Home menu and Press (| button on Standard Toolbar. REDO OPTION The Redo option reverses the last Undo action. Click the Home menu Press lvl button on the standard Toolbar.CHECKING SPELLING AND GRAMMAR MS-Word also provides a feature to check your document for spelling and grammar errors. If a mis-spelt word is found, it will suggest various options. Mis-spelt words are underlined with red wavy lines. Grammatical errors are displayed with green wavy lines. To use the Spelling and Grammar checker, follow the steps given :To use the Spelling and Grammar checker, follow the steps given : Click on the review menu. Click on the Spelling & Grammar option. or Click on the Spelling and Grammar icon on the Standard Toolbar. ¢ ~~ AShortcut menu will open with various suggestions. ¢ ~~ Click on the word with correct spelling. o The mis-spelt word will be replaced with correct spelling.will be replaced with correct spelling. USING THESAURUS A Thesaurus is a list of words in groups of synonyms, antonyms and related words. It helps you to improve your vocabulary as it provides a list of synonyms for the word you are looking for.Follow the given steps to use the thesaurus : ¢ Select the word from the document for which you want to get a synonym, an antonym or related words. Click the review menu and choose Language. A sub-menu will appear. Click the set language. The language dialog box will appear. Select the word from the Meanings tab with which you want to replace the selected word in the document.FIND AND REPLACE It is a strong feature of text editing in Microsoft Word. It is particularly useful in long documents. It gives us the option of replacing a particular text or piece of text with some other text. Word can search for words, phrases or characters and replace them if desired.Suppose, in a Word document you mistyped any word. To replace that word just use the Find and Replace feature, and replace the word in just one go. The steps to find the mistakes and correct them are given below: ¢ Go to Home, and click on Editing option. The Find and Replace box will appear. You can press Shift+F7 key + Write some word in Find What box and click from the keyboard to open once Replace Tab. the Thesaurus dialog box. + Type the word, you want to Replace with, in the Replace with box. + Click on either Replace or Replace All button on the right. The word will be replaced with the correct word in the document. TABLES Tables are collections of organised information You can press Ctrl+F key displayed in rows and columns. Tables can contain from the keyboard to numbers, text or a combination of both. Tables select the Find option make text more attractive and easily readable. from the Edit menu.PARTS OF A TABLE A table has three parts. These are : + Cell - The single box of the table, is called a Cell. + Row - Horizontally, the line of boxes next to each other is called a Row. + Column - Vertically, the line of boxes next to each other is called a Column.CREATING A TABLE To create a table, follow the following steps : + Go to the Insert option in the Menu Bar. # Select Table option. A sub-menu will appear. + In the open sub-menu click on Table option. The Insert Table dialog box will appear. + Type 4 or desired column numbers in the box against Number of Columns. insert table. DrawTapie convert ret to Table FB coat soreacinect TH Quict tapies Tebie se Number ofgoumns: |B & Number of rows: 2 is ‘AutoFit behavior @ Fixed column width: [auto [2] © Autobit to contents + Type 5 or desired row numbers in © AutoFit to window the box against Number of Rows. [F) Remember dmengons for new tables — ClickonOK. Co) Core)=> Remember + Open MS Word and write a paragraph on ‘Myself’. % Delete one word fromit. * Write the following text in MS-Word and then make three duplicate copies of this text. "We living in the age of computers as we can see that the computers are widely used everywhere. Most of the fields are dominated by the computers, so, it is important to have basicknowledge about them froma very young age." Insert the word 'are' before living and 'being' before dominated. Delete the word 'fields' and type ‘areas’. Try howto select one word, one line or multiple lines using the mouse. Save your document using Ctrl+S key combination. oo e ee Close the document by clicking on close button on the Title bar.