Microsoft Word 97 Tutorial

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This tutorial is intended to meet the needs of the new user, as well as provide hints for more experienced users.  If you have been using MS Word and would like to get more familiar with the advanced functions, return to the menu to select the topic of your interest. Although this tutorial is designed for MS Word 97, it may help you with Microsoft Word 2000, or 95.

As a new user the first thing you'll want to get familiar with is the toolbar.  The standard toolbar is located at the top of the screen with icons on it and the formatting toolbar is located directly below the standard toolbar.  To get familiar with the each, take your mouse and hover over each of the buttons in Microsoft Word. The help assistant will tell you what they do.

You can customize your toolbar, by adding additional icons to your standard or formatting toolbar.  A couple of tasks that I have chosen to add are: change case, grow font and shrink font.  You'll want to choose from the menu, View, Toolbars, Customize.   Then choose the command tab, highlight format, and you will see various functions that you can add.  Highlight change case, and drag it up to your formatting toolbar and place it in between any icon.  Do the same for grow font and shrink font.

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