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Accessing Functions in Word 2007

Office Button, Ribbon, Quick Access Toolbar, Mini Toolbar


Working with Documents

Create, open, and save documents; View documents (different modes, headings only, different magnifications, bird’s-eye view, two pages at same time, two documents at the same time); Navigate documents; Print documents; Customize the functions


Working with Text

Select text (word, line, sentence, paragraph, entire document, specific amount, more than one section, any horizontal dimension); Edit text (cut, copy, paste, delete, move; find or change a string; undo, redo, or repeat last action; enter characters not on keyboard; insert or overwrite text); Writing tools (flag and correct errors, specify language, specify automatic formatting, specify automatic corrections, find synonyms, determine readability statistics, count words, track time spent working on a document)


Working with Track Changes

Set options (turn tracking on or off, specify how tracking is displayed); Apply tracked changes (undo revisions, see text with changes incorporated or rejected, cut and paste tracked changes, revise another reviewer’s changes, merge changes from different reviewers, enforce tracking); Comments (create, view, revise, or delete a comment); Review and accept changes (view all changes, only changes made by one reviewer, only comments; accept or reject revisions systematically, within a block, globally, or only those made by one reviewer)


Working with Non-Text Elements

Headers, footers, page numbers, table of contents, footnotes, endnotes, cross-references, watermarks, and more


Formatting

Change type appearance (font, size, colour, case, hidden text, highlighting, other style effects); Use built-in styles (select, modify, and create styles); Edit layout (page breaks, section breaks, columns, page orientation, margins, alignment, indenting, line spacing, paragraph spacing, horizontal spacing); Create lists (simple or multi-level, set indentation, set starting number, align item numbers, sort items)


Working with Tables

Create and navigate (create and populate a table; select a cell, row, column, entire table; convert text to table or table to text; split or merge a table); Multi-page tables (repeat column headings, force a break, prevent a row from breaking); Rows and columns (add, move, and delete; adjust height and width; set column to exactly contain the text within it; make two or more columns the same width; split or merge cells); Design (add, remove, and change style of borders; display or hide gridlines; add shading or colour); Layout (center entries horizontally, vertically, or both; orient text vertically; align entries)

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