Basic editing
- 1. Ana Fernanda Pier Suárez #20 7°C BASIC EDITING SOFTWARE ORIENTATION -Word provides options to change a document’s onscreen appearance by viewing the document in Full Screen, Web Layout, Outline, and Draft views, and many other things. OPENING AN EXISTING DOCUMENT Word enables you to open existing files in one of three forms: as an original document, as a copy of a document, or as a read-only document. CHANGING DOCUMENT VIEWS WORD HAS FIVE DOCUMENT VIEW OPTIONS: *PRINT LAYOUT: Is the default view. It displays the document as it will look when printed and enables you to use the Ribbon to create and edit your document. *FULL SCREEN READING: View is made for reading documents onscreen. Options are available for customizing this view. *WEB LAYOUT: View shows how the document would look as a Web page. *OUTLINE: View displays the document as an outline and offers an outline tab with commands for creating and editing outlines. *DRAFT: View is strictly for editing text. Advanced elements such as charts, graphs, pictures, and other objects are hidden in this view.
- 2. USING ZOOM The zoom group of commands lets you zoom in to get a closer view of a page or zoom out to see more of the document at a smaller size. The zoom button launches the Zoom dialog box, where you have more options for zooming in and out. You can expand the document by clicking a specific zoom amount up to 200%. The Zoom slider can also be used to zoom in and out; this slider is located in the bottom right of your screen on the status bar. SCROLL BARS Allow to move up or down or side to side within a document. In word, a vertical scroll bar appears on the right side of the document window. You can click the scroll buttons to move up or down one line at a time, or you can click and hold a scroll button to scroll more quickly. You can also click and drag the scroll box to move through a document even faster or just click the scroll box to see a ScreenTip displaying your position in the document. At the bottom of the vertical scroll bar, ou can click the Previous Page button to move back to the previous page or click the Next page button to move to the following page. USING THE GO TO COMMAND TO NAVIGATE A LONG DOCUMENT In a longer document, you may need to move through the document more quickly than is possible by scrolling. The GO TO command and Select Browse Object button provide ways to navigate through longer documents quickly.
- 3. SELECTING, REPLACING, AND DELETING TEXT You can delete text in Word documents by pressing the Backspace key to delete characters to the left of the insertion point, pressing the Delete key to delete characters to the right of the insertion point, or selecting text and pressing either the Delete key or Backspace key. To cancel a selection, click in any blank area of the document screen.