Microsoft Word 97 Tutorial

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Once you have a blank document, you'll want to type some text and try out the formatting features available on the format toolbar: font size, bold, italic, underline, align left, center, align right, justify, numbering, bullets, increase indent, and decrease indent.

To format bullets and numbering, you can highlight your bulleted or numbered text, and either right mouse click or select Format from the toolbar, then select Bullets and numbering.  Then you can change to square bullets, triangular bullets, or number by 1,2,3 or a,b,c.  If you want to change the number that you start with, or the indentation, select Customize.  Once you choose Customize, you can choose your font, number style, starting number, number position, number alignment, and text alignment.  If you choose Customize for bullets, you can choose your font, bullet, bullet position and text position.

To format a paragraph, highlight your text, either right mouse click or select Format from the toolbar, then select Paragraph.  At this point, you may choose your indents and line spacing.  To change to double space, select double from the Line spacing arrow.

To insert a date and time, that is automatically updated, select Insert, Date and Time, choose the format that you want, check the Update automatically box, and then hit okay.

To add a date and time, or any other field to a Header or Footer, select View, Header and Footer.  At this point, you can choose to add autotext, such as a filename, or you can add page numbers, a date and time, or you can type the text that you want to add at the top or the bottom of the document.

Once you have a standard header and footer, you may want to save this as a template for future use.  To do this, select File, Save as, then select Save as type: Document Template (*.dot).   This will now be listed in your templates, when you select File, New.

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