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Microsoft Office Word 2007 Plain and Simple

Word 2007: The Missing Manual

Microsoft Office Word 2007 Step by Step

Microsoft Office Word 2007 Inside Out

Bring your documents up to date.

Word 2007 is the biggest upgrade to Microsoft’s time-tested word-processing software in more than a decade. Create dynamic documents effortlessly and effectively by learning to:

Navigate Word 2007’s new interface quickly and easily
Create, format, and print Word documents and add tables, charts, and graphics
Ensure that your new Word documents are compatible with older versions

The Word 2007 Interface

Microsoft Word 2007 replaces the menus and toolbars of previous versions of Word with a more intuitive and easier-to-use interface. The new interface has four main parts:

Office button
Ribbon
Quick Access Toolbar
Help button

The Office Button

The Office button is a round button with the Microsoft Office insignia on it. Clicking it reveals commands that resided in the File menu in earlier versions of Word.

The Ribbon

The Ribbon is the core of the new Word interface. It replaces the drop-down menus and toolbars of previous versions of Word and organizes and displays the various functions that Word provides. It’s made up of tabs and groups:

Tabs: Tabs are the main organizational categories for Word functions. When you click on a tab, the functions within that tab appear on the Ribbon.
Groups: The commands displayed within each tab are further organized into groups. For instance, the Home tab has the groups Clipboard, Font, Paragraph, Styles, and Editing. Some groups also have a little square, called a launcher, at their bottom right that you press to launch a dialog box that provides more commands in the category that the group covers.

Quick Access Toolbar

The Quick Access Toolbar is a customizable toolbar that spans the top of the Word window. It’s visible no matter which tab you’ve selected. Change the commands on the toolbar by using the menu that appears when you click on the down arrow

to the right of the toolbar.