The presentation covered finding and opening Microsoft Word, using the ribbon interface including formatting text and paragraphs, and saving documents. It explained how to access Word through the Start menu, use tabs and buttons on the ribbon to format text, and save documents in Word to preserve work. Basic functions like opening a saved document to make edits were also reviewed.

1. By: Mrs. Williams
Computer 101- 5th grade

2.  Where to find Microsoft Office from your desktop
 Where to find Microsoft Word in the Microsoft
Office folder
 What is the Microsoft Ribbon
 What’s on the Microsoft Word Ribbon such as:
 Tabs
 Spacing button
 Align text left, center, align text right and justify
 Underline, italicize, bold
 Font format and font size
 How to Save and Open a document

3.  You will first log into your student account
 The next slide will show you where to click to
find Microsoft Office.
 As you will see, the Microsoft Windows icon
will take you to Microsoft Office.

4. Where do you find Microsoft
Office?
Click on this
“Windows” icon

5. This window will appear
but Microsoft is not a
selection so….
Click on “All Programs”

6. An “All Program”
window will appear
Click on “Microsoft
Office” folder

7. The Microsoft Office folder will open
and show all the Microsoft programs
like Excel, Powerpoint, Word, etc.
Click on
“Microsoft
Word 2010”

8. Microsoft Word will open to this
page.

9. This area, outlined in
red, is called a “Ribbon”
This area contains
buttons to help you
perform the functions
shown by the icons.

10. These are called
“tabs”. The tabs
names are:
File, Home, Inse
rt, Page
Layout, Referen
ces, Mailings, Re
view and View.

11. This is the styles area. Every time
you open Microsoft Word your page
spacing will be automatically set up
(default) for single spacing. The box
outlined in yellow that says
“Normal” is single spacing.

12. This is the paragraph
area. In this area you
can select align text
left, center, align text
right and justify.

13. When you open Microsoft
Word, the default will be
“align text left”.
This means that the text you
type will start at the left
hand side of the page.

14. This is the “center” icon.
Press this icon button if
you want to type a title in
the middle of the page.

15. This is the “align text
right” icon button. Press
this icon button if you
want to add your name
and date to the page.
When you start typing your
name and date it will show
up at the right hand side of
the page.

16. This is the “justify” icon
button. You will learn what
this button can do during a
future lesson.

17. You will use these three icon
buttons the most. The “B” icon
stands for bold, the “I” icon
stands for italics and the “U”
stands for underline. These icon
buttons are used to emphasize
words.

18. You will use the font area to
choose font type and font size.

19. To select the font type
(theme) click on the
down arrow, find a
font you want and click
on it.

20. To select the font size, click on the
down arrow, find a font size you
want for either the title, subtitle or
body of your document and click
on it.

21. After you have typed your document, you
will be ready to save it. You must save
your document so that you do not lose
any of the work you did. This is how…

22. To save a document click
on the “File” tab. The drop
down menu will have
several selections.

23. Click on the “Save As” button.

24. Type in the name of
your document here.
After you have
typed your
document
name, click on the
“Save” button.

25. Once you have saved your
document, you are done until
you are ready to work on it
again.

26. What happens when I want to
add to my document or make
changes after I have saved my
document?

27.  When you are ready to work on your
document, again, you will “Open” your
document.
 Never, never, never click on “Save” when you
mean to click on “Open”. If you do this you
will erase all of the work you have done.
 Here’s how you open a document……

28. To open a document click on the
“File” tab. The drop down
menu will have several
selections.

29. You will open your document
when you are ready to add or
make changes to it. To do
this, click on the “Open” button.

30. After you click on
“Open”, this window will
open. Click on the
document you want to
open and…
Click on this “Open”
button.

31. Great! You have
opened your
document and you are
now ready to add or
make changes to it!

32. You are now on your way to a
successful learning journey with
Microsoft Word.

33.  MS Word Help
 Microsoft Office Support
 Art work in some slides supplied by Microsoft
ClipArt
 Desktop background also supplied Microsoft
 Screen shots supplied by Microsoft Word 2010