Lesson 2 is on Entering Text in Microsoft Office Word 2007

1. Beginners:
Microsoft Office Word 2007
Lesson 2: Entering Text
Samantha TerBeest
Willmar Public Library

2. Lesson 2 Overview
 Typing Text
 Specifying fonts and text size
 Formatting – bold, italic, underline
 Take advantage of automatic spelling
corrections
 Making bullet or numbered lists

3. Special Keys in Text

4. Typing Text: Font and Size
 Everything we do today will take place
in the HOME Tab
 Font and Size are located in the FONT
Group
Font Size
Increase/ Decrease
Font Size

5. Exercise
 Click on the next to the box with the name
of the current font. Scroll down to find Time
New Roman in the listing and click on it.
 Click on the size selector arrow and click on
28.
 Now type: The quick brown fox.
 Select Brush Script font and size 36.
 Type: jumped over the lazy dogs.
Notice the different font and size.

6. Formatting Text
 Bold
◦ The Bold command, , allows you to
type bold text.
 Italic
◦ The Italic command, , allows you to
type italic, learning, text.

7. Formatting Text, Continued
 Underline
◦ The Underline command, , provides for
underlined text.
◦ There is a gallery, , to select the type of
underline.
 Other Formatting Options
◦ Other commands allow strikethrough of text
offer subscripting as in H20, superscripting
like E=mc2.

8. Exercise
 Select Times New Roman font.
 Set the size to 24.
 Now click on the Bold command.
 Type some text.
 Click on the Italic command.
 Type some more text.
 Click the Underline command.
 Type some more text.
 Click Bold again to release bolding, and type additional text.
 Try various combinations to learn how the commands all
work.

9. Correcting Text
 Backspace Key – erases the
character immediately to the left of the
cursor
 Delete Key – erases a character to
the right of the cursor

10. Exercise
(Ignore the Wavy Lines under text – that is covered in a later Lesson.)
 Set the font to Times New Roman and the size to 18.
 Type The quaack brom
 Use the Backspace key to erase the “m” and type wn to make the
correction.
 Move the pointer to between the a’s and click. The cursor will now
be at that position.
 Press the Backspace key to erase the a to the left of the cursor.
 Press the Delete key to erase the a to the right of the cursor.
 Type the i to correct the word.
 Press the End key to return to the end of the line.
 Continue making errors and correcting them.

11. AutoCorrect
 If you forget to capitalize the first letter in a
new sentence or paragraph, Word will do that
for you.
 If you accidentally hold down the Shift key too
long and type a couple of capital letters at the
beginning of a word, Word will correct that
too.
 If you accidentally leave the Caps Lock on
and type a word that should be capitalized
(by holding down the Shift key for the first
letter), Word will make the correction and

12. AutoCorrect Cont.
 Word will also correct a large number
of typographical errors.
 To cancel the AutoCorrect action – as
soon as the correction appears (after
you type the space), hold down the
Ctrl key and the Z key or click the
Undo icon.

13. Exercise
 Set the font to Times New Roman & the
size to 36.
 Type the following: the quick
 Notice how the word the is changed to
The the moment you type the space
after the word.
 Type the following: BRown fox
 Notice how BRown has changed to
Brown when you typed the space after
the word.

14. Exercise Cont.
 Press the Caps Lock key to turn
capitalization on.
 Hold down the Shift Key and type the letter J.
 Release the Shift key and type umped
 Don’t type the space just yest so you can
inspect the result. It should look like this:
jUMPED
 Now type the space and notice the change.

15. Exercised Continued
 Now type ovre. Type the following
space – the word will change to over.
 Now type teh.
 Now type lazy doggs.
 Notice how the words, over, the, and
dogs were automatically corrected.

16. More AutoCorrect Features
 Auto correct lets you enter a number
of symbols by just type specific text.
Exercise:
 Type This ==> way in. Hello
:). Don’t be :(. Have a
smile as your (tm)
trademark. you can (c) it.
who was 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and
4th?

17. More AutoCorrect Features Cont.
 Word will use the proper quote marks
 It will also insert n-dashes and m-dashes
where appropriate.
◦ To make a n-dash, you type space, hyphen,
space.
◦ To make an m-dash type hyphen, hyphen
without leading or trailing spaces.
Exercise:
 Type: Here we “quote text” –
this is an n-dash--this is an
m-dash.

18. Exercise
 Type: use 1/2 cup milk, 1/4 stick butter, 1/3 cup
cocoa,
 Note that 1/3 did not change. How can you get that?
 Click the Superscript command .
 Type: 1
 Click the Superscript command - to clear it.
 Type: /
 Click the Subscript command .
 Type: 3
 Click the Subscript command - to clear it.
 Type: cup raisins
 Note that the size of the 1/3 does not quite match – for now that is close
enough.

19. Automatic Bullets &
Numbered Lists
 There is an AutoFormat feature in Word to will make bulleted
& numbered lists
◦ There will be more on lists in a later lesson as well.
 To create a Bullet List:
◦ type an asterisk, a space, and the your text.
◦ After you press the Enter key, the next bullet will already be
shown.
◦ To stop the list press the Enter key again.
 To create a Numbered List:
◦ Start a line with the first number followed by a period or an open-
parenthesis mark, a space, and then your text
 The Undo command or Ctrl-Z will allow you to place the
asterisk or number without engaging the list feature.

20. The End of Lesson 2
 Senior Academy. (2008). Word 2007
Basics: An Introduction to Microsoft
Office Word 2007. Ludwig Keck.

21. Exercise: Bullet Lists
 Type: * milk
 Press the Enter key
 Type: butter
 Press Enter, type: cocoa
 Press Enter, type: raisins
 Press Enter.
 Press Enter.

22. Exercise: Numbered Lists
 Type: 1. milk
 Press the Enter key
 Type: butter
 Press Enter, type: cocoa
 Press Enter, type raisins
 Press Enter.
 Press Enter