OFFICE AUTOMATION – I WORD - BASICS 20. MICROSOFT WORD BASIC FEATURES This lesson familiarizes you with the basic features available in MS Word that will help you in typing and editing a document. These features make the process of creating and editing a document much easier and faster.
20.0 Objectives On completion of this lesson, you will be able to: • •
Get familiar with the various options while typing and editing a document. Understand the basic in-built features like Bold, Underline and Italics, Cut Copy and Paste, Undo and Redo in MS Word.
20.1 Introduction Once you are comfortable with MS Word screen, you should be able to create a document. This lesson deals with tools that will help you in creating a document. Bold, Underline, Italics, Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo and Redo are some word which you may find new and will be discussed in detail in this lesson. When you start MS Word, a new file automatically opens which is called Document 1.doc
In the upper-left corner of the document, or page, a blinking vertical line appears and this is the insertion point for text. If you want to start further down the page, just press ENTER until the insertion point reaches where you want the first line to begin. 1