This document summarizes Microsoft Word 2007 Lesson 5 on using the Home tab. It includes exercises on opening recent documents, creating and formatting bullet and numbered lists, sorting lists, creating lists as you type, applying styles, and finding and replacing text. The lesson covers topics like bullets, numbering, styles, themes, and the find and replace tools in Word 2007. Exercises guide the user to practice these skills on sample documents.

1. Microsoft Office Word 2007
Lesson 5: More on the Home Tab
Samantha TerBeest
Willmar Public Library

2. Overview
• More on Bullet & Numbered Lists
• About Styles & Themes
• How to Find & Replace Text

3. Open Document - from Recent Lists
• You can Open Recently Used Documents 2
Different Ways:
▫ Clicking the Office Button – list appears on the
right side of the Pane
▫ Clicking the Windows/Start Button & Selecting
“Recent Items”

4. Exercise - Part 1
• Click the Start Button at the bottom of the Desktop Screen.
Type “Libraries” in the search bar and click Enter. Choose
Documents from the menu.
• Double-click the WB_PracticeFiles folder to open it.
• Double-click on A Diller.
• Open & load A Pinch of Salt.
• Open & load Twinkle twinkly little star.
• Now close all Word windows. You opened 3 documents so
there are 3 Word windows open – close them all.

5. Exercise – Part 2
• Launch Word.
• Click the Office button.
• Note the right pane. The most recent documents
are shown. The last one you opened is a the top.
You can click on the name of a document to open
it.
• Close Word.

6. Exercise – Part 3 – We will Talk About
this One
• Click Start.
• Click Recent Items in the right pane. A small
menu shows recent items. Just click on the one
you want.

7. Bullet List, Numbered List, & Sorting
• Exercise Part 1:
▫ Start Word.
▫ Type shopping list. Press the Enter key.
▫ Type 10 items as they come to mind.
▫ Press the Enter key after each item to put it on a
line of its own.

8. Bullet List, Numbered List, & Sorting
• Bullet List Exercise:
▫ Select all lines except the first one (the list title).
▫ Click the Bullets Command in the Paragraph
Group on the Home tab.

9. Bullet List, Numbered List, & Sorting
• Numbered List Exercise:
▫ Select all the lines except the first one (the title).
▫ Click the Numbering command in the
Paragraph group on the Home Tab.

10. Bullet List, Numbered List, & Sorting
• Sorting Exercise:
▫ Select all lines except the first one (the list title).
▫ Click the Sort Command in the Paragraph
group on the Home Tab.
▫ Accept the settings in the Sort Text dialog by
clicking OK.

11. Create a List as You Type
• Exercise (Continued from last exercise):
▫ Use the Ctrl+End command to go to the end of
the document.
▫ Press the Enter key. Word will put “11.” on the
next line for you.
▫ Press the Enter again. The number will be erased
& the cursor placed at the left margin to start a
normal line.
▫ Press the Enter several more times to enter
vertical space.
▫ Exercise continued on next slide.

12. Create a List as You Type
• Exercise Continued:
▫ Type the following text: To Do List for
Kid’s Visit.
▫ Press Enter.
▫ Now type the following: * vacuum guest room
Press Enter. Note that Word started a bulleted
list – it also capitalized the first letter on the line.
▫ Continue typing: set out fresh bed linen
Press Enter.
▫ Type: clean quest bathroom Press Enter.
Press Enter again to end list.
▫ Press Enter a couple more times.
▫ Exercise continued on next slide.

13. Create a List as You Type
• Exercise Continued:
▫ Now type: make living room ready for
kids Press Enter.
▫ Type: 1. pack knick-knacks and put in
closet Press Enter.
▫ Type: move recliner in front of closet
Press Enter.
▫ Type: put safety plugs into all
outlets Press Enter.

14. Styles
• Styles are named sets of predefined properties,
including font, size, alignment, spacing, and
other.
• When you place the cursor anywhere in a
paragraph & click on one of the style commands
the paragraph is set to the properties defined for
that style.
More Styles

15. Exercise
• Use last exercise. Press Ctrl+Home to get to the top
of the document.
• Select the title line.
• Click the More button in the Styles group on the
Home Tab. The styles gallery will be displayed.
• Now move the pointer around in the styles gallery &
watch what happens in the text window. As you
come to a style, the title line will be shown in that
style.
• Click on the Title style. The title line will be set to
that style & the gallery closes.

16. Exercise
• Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+A to select the
entire document.
• Click the Change Styles command.
• Place the pointer on Style Set in the little menu.
• Move the pointer into the larger menu & move it
up & down over the list of style sets. Watch the
text Window.

17. Find & Replace
• Sometimes you wish to find a certain word or
phrase in a document, sometimes you need to
change a word or phrase to another.

18. Find Exercise
• Close Word.
• Launch Why Computers Frustrate Older
Adults from the WB_PracticeFiles Folder.
• Click the Find command in the Editing group
on the Home tab. The Find & Replace dialog
opens.
• In the Find what: text box enter computer.
• Click the Find Next repeatedly. Watch how each
instance of the word computer is found &
highlighted (selected).

19. Replace Exercise
• Close any dialog boxes.
• Go to the top of the document (Ctrl+Home).
• Click Replace in the Editing group on the Home tab.
• In the Find what: box enter adults.
• In the Replace with: box enter people.
• Click Find Next.
• When the first instance of the word adults is found & selected
click Replace.
• The replacement will be made & the next instance of adult will
be found.
• This time click Replace All.

20. End of Lesson 5
• Senior Academy. (2008). Word 2007 Basics:
An Introduction to Microsoft Office Word 2007.
Ludwig Keck.
• Next Class is Tuesday, November 20th @ 11AM.
We will be learning more about the Insert &
Review Tabs.