This document provides an overview and lesson plan for a beginner-level Microsoft Word 2007 training course. It covers getting started with Word 2007 and understanding the user interface elements like the ribbon, tabs, groups and dialog boxes. It also explains how to open and view documents, move around in a document, and access help. The ribbon displays commonly used commands organized into tabs like Home, Insert and Page Layout. The Office button in the top left corner allows starting new documents, opening existing ones, saving, printing and more.

1. An Overview
Samantha TerBeest
Willmar Public Library
Microsoft Office Word 2007
for Beginners

2. Lesson Plan for Today
 Getting Started
 The Ribbon
 The Office Button
 Opening a Document
 Viewing a Document
 Moving Around in a Document
 Help

3. Getting Started
 Open Microsoft Office Word from the Desktop
 Double-Click this Icon:
 This Will Open Microsoft Office Word

4. Getting Started Continued…
 The Title Bar Displays the Name of the Document
 When You Open Word the Document will Always be
Called “Document1”
 The Office Button is at the Top Left
 We Will talk about this button later
 The Top Right Buttons are: Minimize, Maximize,
and Close Buttons
 Ribbon – Next from Top
 Contains Important Groups Divided into Tabs

5. What it All Looks Like…
Close
Title BarOffice Button
Minimize
Minimize
Ribbon

6. The Ribbon
 What is it?
 Displays commonly used commands
 On the top of the ribbon are 7 basic Tabs/Activity
Areas
 Home
 Insert
 Page Layout
 Reference
 Mailings
 Review
 View
 Within the tabs are little boxes called Groups
 Some have Galleries when this appears:
 Each Group has a Dialog Box Launcher which offers even
more options

7. The Home Tab
 The most commonly used commands for
formatting and manipulating text
The Home Tab
Group
Dialog Box Launcher
A Gallery
Activity Area

8. The Insert Tab
 Commands for doing all the various types of
inserting such as pictures, tables, date and time,
symbols & many other options

9. Page Layout Tab
 The options for arranging the overall appearance
of the document

10. The Reference Tab
 The cross-referencing, indexing and controlling
various references is done here.

11. The Mailings Tab
 Contains the mail merge and the printing of
envelopes and labels commands.

12. The Review Tab
 Spelling and grammar checking are at home here
and some other powerful controls for
commenting, tracking, and comparing
documents.

13. The View Tab
 Controls how the document is displayed on the
screen.

14. The Office Button

15. The Office Button
 Located in the upper left-hand corner
 Has Several Commands
 New
 Used for starting a new document
 Can choose a template for the different types of documents
 Open
 Used to Open a Document
 Or to load one into Word
 Save
 Used to store the document on the hard drive of the
computer

16. The Office Button, Cont.
 Commands, Cont.
 Save As
 Allow you to save a document by a specified name or in a
specified folder
 Print
 Sends documents to the printer
 Prepare, Send, and Publish
 Powerful Commands that offer various options
 Not Covered in this course
 Close
 Another Way to Close your document

17. Opening a Document
 There are Two ways of Opening a Document
 Using “Open” Under the Office Button
 Clicking “Open” in the upper left-hand pane
 You must know where the file is located and what
the file is called.

18. Opening a Document

19. Viewing a Document
 There are Four Ways to View a Document:
 Dragging the Borders
 Makes Screen Larger or Smaller
 Using the Zoom Controls
 Makes page bigger or smaller
 Using the “Page Up”/ “Page Down” Keyboard
buttons
 Moves Page to the next “screen’s worth” of text
 Using the “Next Page”/ “Previous Page” Buttons
 Moves to the next page or the previous page

20. Viewing a Document

21. Moving Around in a Document

22. Help
 Use the Help Button when you need assistance
or advice
 Type in a keyword/words

23. The End
 Created with the Help of:
 Senior Academy. (2008). Word 2007 Basics: An
Introduction to Microsoft Office Word 2007. Ludwig
Keck.
 View these Slides Online:
 http://slidesha.re/NmgZse