This document provides information about Microsoft Word, including its history, interface elements, and basic functions. It describes how Word was first released in 1983 and key updates and versions since. It explains the main interface elements like the title bar, ribbon tabs, home tab, insert tab, ruler, and header/footer. It provides brief descriptions of the functions of common tabs and buttons in Word like creating, opening, and saving documents. It also includes instructions for an activity assigning a research topic to be written in Word.

1. Empowerment Technologies

2. GUESS THE LOGO

3. Microsoft Office

4. Microsoft Word

5. Microsoft Excel

6. Microsoft PowerPoint

7. Adobe Photoshop

8. Adobe Tools

9. Microsoft Tools

10. Terms
 Productivity tools/software is an application software used for creating digital
content.
 Freeware is a copyrighted software and is made available for use, free of charge
for an unlimited time. (ex. LibreOffice)
 Shareware is a commercial software that is copyrighted but which may be copied
for others for the purpose of their trying out with the understanding that they will
pay for it if they continue to use it. (ex. MS Office)
 MS Word, Powerpoint, Excel are some examples of the common productivity
tools used for creating content.

11. Microsoft Word
 Microsoft Word allows you to create professional-quality documents, reports, letters,
and résumés. Unlike a plain text editor, Microsoft Word has features including spell
check, grammar check, text and font formatting, HTML support, image support,
advanced page layout, mail merge and more.

12. Brief History
 Microsoft word was first released in 1983 as a Multi-Tool Word. Its first
version was mainly based on the framework of Bravo which was the
world’s first graphical writing program.
 Microsoft renamed its Multi Tool Word to Microsoft Word, and then in
October 1983, Microsoft released its first version for then popular IBM
PCs.
 In 1985, Microsoft ported it to the Macintosh for the first time which
was a little different from its DOS-based counterpart, i.e. Macintosh
offered various major interface changes.
 In 1989, Microsoft released another new version of Word for its
Windows operating systems. It was the Microsoft Word who first
introduced the concept of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get),
i.e. it allowed us to create and display bold and italics text.
 In 2014, Microsoft developed the source code for its Microsoft Word for
Windows 1.1a.

13. MS Office Button
 When you click this button, it offers a selective list of commands to perform
different tasks which are New, Open, Save, Save As and etc.
 These commands are thoroughly described in the next slide
MS Word 2007 MS Word 2010 and up

14.  Home – where Recent and Pinned Documents are seen
 New – Create a Blank or Template document
 Open – open an existing document
 Info – information about the current document
 Save – Save document in .docx file type
 Save As – Save document in .docx file or other file type
 Save as Adobe PDF – save as .pdf file type
 Print – makes a hard copy of the document
 Share – send to email, post to blog, present online
 Export – Save document to other file types
 Close – closes the current document
 Account – see the User and Product Information
 Feedback – you can send feedback to the developers
 Options – Customize your preferences

15. Quick Access Toolbar
 When you click on the drop-down arrow next to the
toolbar it offers many more commands. With a left click
you can even add any of these set of commands to Quick
 Access Toolbar. You can also remove the undesirable
commands added to the tool bar. The indent, spacing
values, individual styles and other such features that
appear on the ribbon cannot be added to quick access
toolbar. The following image shows the menu of the quick
access toolbar.

16. Title Bar
 The title bar lies right next to the Quick Access Toolbar and it displays the title of the
currently open document or application. It is present on almost all the windows
displayed on your computer monitor screen. So, if in case there are several windows
across the screen, you can identify each window by looking at its title bar. In many such
graphical user interfaces, you can also move a window by dragging its title bar.

17. Ribbon and Tabs
 The Ribbon is an user interface element which was first introduced by Microsoft in Microsoft Office 2007.
It is usually located below the Quick Access Toolbar and the Title Bar and it comprises 7 tabs in MS
Word 2007 ;
 Home
 Insert
 Page layout
 References
 Mailing
 Review
 View tab
 Each tab has a specific group of related commands which give you quick access to the commonly used
commands that you need to complete a task.
 9 tabs, and 3 optional tabs (Developer, Help, Acrobat) in MS Word 2010 up

18. Home Tab
 The Home tab is the default tab in the Microsoft Word. It has five subdivided groups of
related commands; Clipboard, Font, Paragraph, Styles and Editing. The home tab helps
you change document settings like font size, adding bullets, adjusting styles and many
other common features and allows you to return to the home section of the document.
command command group

19. Insert Tab
 Insert Tab is the second tab in the Ribbon and as the name suggests, it is used to insert
or add extra features in your document. It is most commonly used to add tables,
pictures, clip art, shapes, page number, etc. The Insert tab has seven different groups
of related commands that are Pages, Tables, Illustrations, Links, Header & Footer, Text
and Symbols.

20. Draw Tab
 The Draw tab offers three types of drawing textures: pen, pencil, and highlighter, each
with a different look.

21. Design Tab
 The Design tab includes table formatting, cell and table borders, arranging the table on
the page, and the size of the table.

22. Layout Tab
 This Tab allows you to control the look and feel of your document, i.e. you can easily
change the page size, margins, line spacing, indentation, documentation
orientation, etc. The Page Layout tab has 3 different groups of related commands that
are Page Setup, Paragraph and Arrange.

23. References Tab
 This Tab allows you to enter document sources, citations, bibliography commands,
etc. It also offers commands for you to create a table of contents, an index, table of
contents and table of authorities.

24. Mailings Tab
 This tab is probably the least-often used tab of all the tabs available in this Ribbon. It
allows you merge emails, write and insert different fields, preview results and
convert a file into the PDF format.

25. Review Tab
 this tab offers you some important commands to modify your document. It also helps
you proofread your content, add or remove comments, track new changes, etc.

26. Ruler
 The Ruler is generally located below the Ribbon around the top edge of the document
and is used to change the format of the document, i.e. it helps you align the text, tables,
graphics and other such elements inside your document. It uses inches or centimeters as
the measurement unit depending on your choice and gives you an idea about the size of
the document.

27. Header and
Footer
A header is text that is
placed at the top of a
page, while a footer is
placed at the bottom, or
foot, of a page. Typically
these areas are used for
inserting document
information, such as the
name of the document, the
chapter heading, page
numbers, creation date and
the like.

28. Zoom Slider
Web Layout
Print Layout
Read Mode
Macro
Language
Proofing
Errors
No. of words
in the
document
Page
No.
Reference: https://www.w3schools.blog/ms-word-tutorial

29. Activity
 Research about current events ( politics, environment and etc.)
 Instructions:
 Use Arial Font, size 12
 Put your name in the Header, align it to the left and make the font Bold
 Put your section in the Footer, align it to the right and make the font Italic
 Set your Margin to Moderate and Paper Size to A4
 On your Document Area
 put your chosen topic/title on the first row and center it.
 Indent every start of the paragraph
 Insert a Picture (if available)
 Set Line Spacing to 1.5 lines (Before: 0pt and After: 0pt)
 Minimum 500 words
 Cite Sources at the end of your document
 Save your document as PDF
 Upload it to your e-Portfolio/Website