Updating WORD Basics

(These guidelines are based on WORD 14.4.7 for MAC. You may see some differences.)

CREATING A DOCUMENT

Open WORD on your computer.

When the document opens, click on it and type. It’s that easy.

Formatting requires either a little experience, or an adventurous spirit! Feel free to just try everything on the ribbon at the top. Play with things and learn what you can do.

If you’re not feeling adventurous right now, here’s a few helpful hints to get you started:

SAVING A DOCUMENT

Once you create a WORD document, you must save it as a file.


Step 1	Click File.
Step 2	Click Save As.
Step 3	On the pop-up window, give the file a unique name then click Save.

SELECTING TEXT

To select text, click just before the first letter of the text you want to select and continue pressing down and dragging to the end of the text you want selected. The selected text will become highlighted.

If you want to select all the text in a document, click Edit then Select All.

CHANGING FONTS

You can easily change the font (style of the type) and font size. You can make selected text bold, italicized or underlined. For a resume, you want to highlight specific items, but don’t want to go crazy with changes because it will make the resume too busy.


Step 1	Select the text.
Step 2	Click the drop-down arrow for Font style.
Step 3	Select the font you want applied to the selected text.
Step 4	Click the drop-down arrow for Font size.
Step 4	Select the Font size you want applied to your text.

To Bold, Italicize or Underline selected text, simply select the text and click the B, I or U short-code.

CREATING A BULLET LIST

Use Bullet Lists to make text more readable. Each new line will be treated as a Bulleted item. So, a paragraph will become one bullet.

To make multiple bullets, type text on separate lines.

It’s easy to create a Bullet list:


Step 1	Type your text with each item you want bulleted on a separate line.
Step 2	Select all of the items to be bulleted.
Step 3	Click the Bullet icon.