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Microsoft Word 2003
Create a new document
1. Open Microsoft Word 2003. Your screen should look like this:
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2. Close the Getting Started pane.
3. In the blank document, type: Fax Cover Sheet at the top of the page.
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4. Press ENTER key on your keyboard twice. The document should look like this:
TIP: Pressing the ENTER key twice should add two blank lines between the words FAX
Cover Sheet and the blinking cursor.
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5. Type:
To: Lisa A. Paschitti
6. Press the ENTER key on your keyboard.
7. Type:
From: Lisa A. Paschitti then press ENTER
8. Type: Fax number: 888-555-1874 then press ENTER.
9. Type: Date: May 1, 2007
10. Type: Total number of pages: 6.
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Your document should now look like this:
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Create a folder for your document
1. On the Menu Bar, click File, and then Save.
2. When the Save As window appears, create a new folder in the My Documents
called Word Documents.
Tip: To create this new folder, first select the My Documents folder by clicking on the
My Documents on the left of your screen or in the Save in drop down list.
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Then click the
icon.
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When the New Folder window appears, type: Word Documents in the Name
box.
Then click the
button.
The Word Documents folder should appear in the Save in box.
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Save the Document
1. In the File name box, type:
Fax Cover Sheet
2. Click the
button.
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Cut, copy and paste
1. Click at the beginning of the words
Fax number: 888-555-1874
2. Holding your mouse button down, drag over the words to highlight them.
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3. Click the
icon.
Tip: Your Standard and Formatting toolbars may share one row at the top of the window.
Some buttons may be hidden:
Hidden Icons
To see all the buttons, click the Formatting toolbar’s handle (the light gray dotted vertical
line)…and drag the Formatting toolbar down so it occupies a second row.
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Now the toolbars should be stacked one above the other.
Some menu commands also may be hidden. To make all the menu commands appear,
click the double arrows at the bottom of the menu:
To see what an icon does, rest your mouse on it for a full second. A yellow label will
appear that tells you what it does:
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4. Click at the beginning of the last line on the page to place the cursor there.
5. Click the
icon.
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Your document should look like this:
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Copy text
1. On the Menu Bar, click Edit, then Select all.
2. Click the
icon.
3. Click the
icon.
This should create a new document.
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Paste text
1. Click the
icon.
All the text from the document Fax Cover Sheet should appear in the new document.
2. Click the
icon to save the new document.
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Format words
Change font
1. Highlight the words Fax Cover Sheet
2. Click the drop-down arrow next to the Font list.
3. When the Font list appears, click Arial.
The text should look like this:
4. Click anywhere in the white space on the page to un-highlight the text.
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Change font size
1. Highlight the words Fax Cover Sheet again.
Then click the drop-down arrow next to the Font Size list.
2. When the Font Size list appears, click 16.
3. Click any where on the page to deselect the text. The words Fax Cover Sheet
should now be larger:
4. Save the document.
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Change font style
1. Highlight the words Fax Cover Sheet, and then click on the
2. Click the
icon.
icon again to un-bold the text.
The text should look like this:
3. Click the
icon.
The text should now look like this:
4. Click the
icon again to un-italicize the text.
5. Click the
icon one more time.
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6. Click in the white space on the page to de-select the text.
The text should look like this:
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Change font color
1. Highlight the Fax Cover Sheet
2. Click the drop-down arrow next to the
icon
3. When the Font Color grid appears, click Teal.
4. Deselect the text. The text should now be teal-colored.
5. Save the document.
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Apply text effects
1. Highlight the words Fax Cover Sheet.
2. On the Menu Bar, click Format, then Font.
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3. When the Font window appears, check the All Caps checkbox.
4. Click the
button.
5. Save the document. It should now look like this:
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NOTES
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