Before you begin creating documents in Word, you may want to set up your Word environment and become familiar with a few key tasks such a...

It is important to know how to perform basic tasks with text when working in a word processing application. In this lesson you will learn th...

It is important to know how to save the documents you are working with. There are many ways you share and receive documents , which will aff...

Worried about making mistakes when you type? Don't be. Word provides you with several proofing features that will help you produce prof...

A hyperlink is a piece of text or an image in an electronic document that can connect readers to another portion of the document or a dif...

Once you complete your document, you may want to print it for various reasons. This lesson covers the three basic features of printing in Wo...

In addition to working with existing documents , you will want to be able to create new documents. Each time you open Word, a new, blank doc...

To create and design effective documents, you need to know how to format text . In addition to making your document more appealing, formatte...

You may want to insert a text box into your document to draw attention to specific text or so that you have the ability to easily move text ...

You may want to insert various types of illustrations into your documents to make them more visually appealing. Illustrations include ClipAr...

You can add a variety of shapes to your document including arrows, callouts, squares, stars, flowchart symbols and more. Want to off-set you...

A template is a pre-designed document that you can use to create new documents with the same formatting . With a template, many of the big ...

Bulleted and numbered lists can be used in your documents to arrange and format text to draw emphasis. In this lesson, you will learn how t...

An important part of creating effective documents lies in the document design. As part of designing the document and making formatting decis...

You may find that the default page layout settings in Word are not sufficient for the document you wish to create, in which case you will wa...

Pictures can be added to Word documents and then formatted in various ways. The picture tools in Word 2007 make it easy to incorporate imag...

Two useful formatting features in Word are the columns and ordering commands. Columns are used in many types of documents, but are most co...

You can make your document look professional and polished by utilizing the header and footer sections. The header is a section of the docum...

A table is a grid of cells arranged in rows and columns . Tables can be customized and are useful for various tasks such as presenting tex...

Smart Art allows you to visually communicate information rather than simply using text. Illustrations can really make an impact in your docu...