Word is used to perform word processing and create documents like letters, flyers, project reports. In this chapter you will learn basics of word document like creating a new document, creating a document using existing template, changing the color theme, printing etc.

1. Creating new document
2. Opening an existing document
3. Saving a document with new name
4. Saving a document
5. Closing document
6. Create a document from template
7. Using microsoft word help
8. Change color scheme of word

Microsoft offers you unprecedented abilities when formatting your documents. There are so many options, that it can be difficult to find them all. You will learn some of the ways of doing this.

1. Aligning and justifying paragraph
2. Applying Borders
3. Applying shading to Paragraph
4. Using bullets in text
5. Using multilevel list
6. Changing line spacing
7. Using and setting tabs

Formatted text can draw the reader's attention to specific parts of a document and emphasize important information. In Word, you have many options for adjusting the font of your text, including size, color, and inserting special symbols.

1. Inserting textboxes
2. Entering the text in document
3. Changing color of text
4. changing font size of text
5. Changing font style of text
6. filling color in textbox
7. clear formating
8. Changing outline color of textbox
9. inserting wordart to text
10. changing color of word art
11. Changing style of wordart
12. changing script of text

Microsoft Word offers a gallery of convenient predesigned cover pages. Choose a cover page and replace the sample text with your own. Checking all the spelling and grammar in a file at the same time is useful when you want to proof your text.

1. Adding title or heading
2. Select
3. Selection using arrow keys
4. Checking spelling grammar
5. Find
6. Find and Replace
7. Adding sheets to the documents
8. Adding cover page in document
9. Count number of words
10. removing blank pages from document
11. removing coverpage from document

Document collaboration is a critical element to working effectively as a team in your enterprise. Understanding the ways you can collaborate on documents is vital to making the best choice for your needs and improving your productivity as an information worker

1. Adding comments about document
2. Using reviewing pane
3. Accept and reject change
4. Defining and removing restriction areas for editing
5. Tracking changes
6. Using markup to compare document

Headers and footers are areas in the top, bottom, and side margins of each page in a document.You can insert or change text or graphics in headers and footers. For example, you can add page numbers, the time and date, a company logo, or the author's name.

1. Inserting page numbers
2. Inserting footers
3. Inserting headers
4. Inserting date in header
5. Inserting date in footer
6. Removing headers
7. Removing footers
8. Inserting endnotes
9. Inserting footnotes

Use the Highlight tool to mark and find important text in your document. Highlighted parts of a document are easiest to see when the document is online. Microsoft Word provides several other options like bold, italics, hyperlink etc.

1. Underlining text
2. Changing color of underline
3. Making Text Bold
4. Changing typecase
5. Creating hyperlink in text

To print a document, your computer needs to be connected to a printer. If the AutoRecover option is turned on, you can automatically save versions of your file while you’re working on it. You can also save a word document in other formats like PDF, rtf,xml, plain text etc.

1. Applying page borders
2. Changing page color
3. Changing page orientation before printing
4. Changing page orientation
5. Printing a document
6. Applying watermarks
7. Mark as final
8. Saving document in different file format
9. Checking Compatibility
10. Enable recover unsaved versions
11. Recover unsaved files

A SmartArt graphic is a visual representation of your information that you can quickly and easily create, choosing from among many different layouts, to effectively communicate your message or ideas.You can add shapes, such as boxes, circles, and arrows, to your documents.

1. Inserting shapes
2. Adding text in shapes
3. Adjusting brightness and contrast
4. Applying shades in shape
5. Changing style of shape
6. Inserting smartart
7. Changing color of smartart
8. Changing layout of smartart
9. Changing style of smartart
10. Inserting pictures
11. Repositioning image
12. Wrapping the text around image

Word provides manual creation of Table of content(TOC) and also a gallery of TOC styles. Mark the TOC entries, and then click the TOC style that you want from the gallery. Word automatically creates the table of contents from the headings that you marked.

1. Creation of TOC
2. Changing title word style
3. Update-Remove TOC

Microsoft Word has different ways for you to get a good view of your work, depending on the task at hand. For complex document to organize, Outline view helps you see and focus on its structure. Full Screen Reading view is optimized for reading a document on the computer screen.

1. Opening outline view
2. Opening document in Fullscreen reading view
3. Opening document in weblayout view
4. Using zoom from view

In Word, you can insert a table by choosing from a selection of preformatted tables — complete with sample data — or by selecting the number of rows and columns that you want. You can also insert one table into another table to create a more complex table

1. Creating tables
2. Moving and resizing table
3. Navigating and Modifying tables
4. Resizing column and row
5. Adding row and column headings
6. Adding and deleting columns
7. Adding and deleting rows
8. Apply shading to table
9. Applying table borders
10. Changing table style
11. Converting table to text
12. Converting text into table
13. Merging and Splitting cells