MS-Word File With Steps
MS-Word File With Steps
You can use the Navigation pane to search for specific words or phrases in a document.
The Navigation pane appears on the left, displaying the Results view.
Press Ctrl + F.
The search runs automatically. Results are highlighted in the document, and the Navigation pane lists
all instances of the word.
You can use the arrows under the search box to jump to the Previous or Next search result.
Advanced Find
To search your documents for more specific items, such as certain capitalization or only whole words,
use Advanced Find.
By default, the Find and Replace dialog box only shows the basics—a search field. There are more
options available if you expand the dialog box.
You can choose to exactly match the case or only search for whole words. You can also use wildcards,
or ignore punctuation and spacing.
Word navigates to and selects the next instance that fits the additional criteria.
Replace Text
If you’ve spelled something incorrectly in multiple places, Word can fix them all with just a few steps.
The Find and Replace dialog box opens to the Replace tab.
2. Type the word you need to replace in the Find what text field.
3. Type the word you need to replace in the Replace with text field.
5. Click OK.
Shortcuts:
o To align left, press Ctrl + L.
o To align right, press Ctrl + R.
o To align centre, press Ctrl + C.
o To justify, Ctrl + J.
Examples:
Left Aligned
Right Aligned
Centre Aligned
Justified
P#3 – Steps to set Page Margins and also set
different on different pages
Word includes several built-in margin settings that you can choose from.
Word adjusts the size of the margins and automatically redistributes your content to fit.
If the common margin settings don't meet your needs, you can create custom ones.
4. Click OK.
P#4 – Steps to Set Orientations and Size and also
set different on different pages
Word can lay out the page for any paper size that your computer’s printer supports. This means that
you can use Word not only to print letters, but also legal documents, postcards, tickets, flyers, and
any other documents that use a non-standard paper size.
If the size you want to use doesn’t appear in the list, select More Paper Sizes. The Paper tab of the
Page Setup dialog box appears, where you can enter a custom paper size.
The document preview on the screen adjusts to use the selected paper size.
If the common margin settings don't meet your needs, you can create custom ones.
Portrait
Landscape
P#5 – Steps to Set Indents
The most common type of indent is a left indent, where text is indented in half-inch increments from
the left margin. You can quickly add or remove this type of indent from the Home tab.
2. Click the Increase Indent button or Decrease Indent button on the Home tab.
The paragraph’s indent from the left margin is increased or decreased by 0.5” increments each time
the button is clicked.
You can easily set a custom indent, specifying the exact amount of space between the text and
margins on both the left and right sides.
You can adjust the indentation on both the left and right sides of the paragraph.
Besides the left and right indents, two special indents can be used in your paragraphs: hanging and
first line indents. A first line indentation lets you indent the first line of a paragraph independently of
the other lines. In hanging indentation, the first line of the paragraph remains against the left margin
while the other lines in the paragraph are indented. Hanging indentations are often used
in bibliographies or lists.
3. Select an option:
o First Line: Indents the first line of a paragraph independently of the other lines.
o Hanging Line: The first line of a paragraph will remain against the left margin, while
the other lines in the paragraph are indented.
4. Enter the indent amount or use the arrows to increase or decrease the indent.
Click and drag the First Line Indent marker on the ruler to adjust the first line indent or drag
the Hanging Indent marker to adjust that indent.
P#6 – Steps to apply Format Painter
1. Select the formatted text you want to copy.
To copy paragraph formatting (such as line or paragraph spacing) as well as text formatting, select the
entire paragraph you want to copy.
The cursor changes to a paintbrush, indicating that the format painter is ready.
3. Select the text you want to apply the copied formatting to.
To apply copied formatting to multiple areas, keep the format painter turned on by double-clicking
the Format Painter button, and then select each area you want to apply the formatting to. Click
the Format Painter button again or press Esc to turn the Format Painter off when you’re done.
P#7 – Steps to apply Headings in Document
1. Select the Home tab in the ribbon.
2. Select the text you want to turn into a heading. (Or, move your cursor to a blank line where you
want to type your new heading during the next step.)
3. Select the appropriate heading level in the Styles group. (If you didn’t select existing text during
step 2, type your new heading text after making your selection.)
Figure 3. Styles group
Pro Tip: Word includes nine heading levels, although only a few will appear in your Styles group when
you open a new document. Additional heading levels will appear after you use higher-level headings.
For example, Heading 4 will appear after you use Heading 3.
The selected text will be formatted with the new heading style immediately.
The pane appears at the left. It includes a search field for you to search for text in your document as
well as three ways to browse: by heading, page, or search result.
Press Ctrl + F.
Navigating your document by page or heading allows you to jump around your document very
quickly.
Every page in the document is represented by a thumbnail. You can scroll through this list to see a
quick overview of how the document looks.
The Navigation pane now displays all the headings in the document.
The Caption dialog box opens. The default caption label is “Figure”, followed by an automatic number.
You can give the caption a descriptive name as well.
You could also adjust the position of the label by clicking the Position list arrow and selecting another
option. By default, captions will appear below figures.
5. Click OK.
A caption is added below the image.
Captions added this way will automatically number themselves, in order, from the start of the
document. If you add a new caption to an earlier figure, each caption after is automatically
renumbered.
Since caption numbers can change, create references to captions in your document by clicking
the Cross-reference button on the References tab and selecting the caption. This way, the reference
in the text will automatically change when the caption number does.
P#11 – Steps to insert new label in caption
You can add a caption to a table in the same way that you can add a caption to a figure. If you have
multiple types of captions in a document, you may also want to customize the numbering style so
they don’t all look the same.
1. Select a table.
4. Select Table.
The caption label changes to Table. This also restarts the numbering to only include table captions
and changes the position of the caption as well.
6.Click the Format list arrow and select a new numbering format.
7. Click OK.
The numbering format is applied.
9. Click OK.
The table caption is added above the table and will use the specified numbering format.
P#12 – Steps to insert Table of figures
Once you have a few figures in your document, you can create a table of figures, listing each figure
and the page it’s found on.
1. Click in your document where you want the table of figures to appear.
We can hide or show page numbers, change how page numbers are aligned, and change the tab
leader between the caption labels and the page number.
6. Click OK
The table of figures is inserted and lists all the figures in the document.
Once you have a few figures in your document, you can create a table of figures, listing each figure
and the page it’s found on.
1. Click in your document where you want the table of figures to appear.
We can hide or show page numbers, change how page numbers are aligned, and change the tab
leader between the caption labels and the page number.
6. Click OK
The table of figures is inserted and lists all the figures in the document.
P#13 – Steps to create list and nested list
Multilevel List
Both numbered and bulleted lists can have multiple levels, letting you put together an
outline of topics and subtopics. Any list can be turned into a multilevel list by demoting list
items.
1. Select the list item you want to demote.
2. Click the Increase Indent button.
The list item is indented, and depending on the list style, the bullet or number may change.
You can indent a list item multiple times to create additional levels.
To promote a list item back to a higher level, just click the Decrease Indent button.
P#14 – Steps to set line spacing
1. Select the paragraph or paragraphs you want to adjust.
2. Click the Line and Paragraph Spacing button.
A list of line spacing options appears. The options here range from 1.0, which adds no extra
space between lines, to 3.0, where the spacing for each line is triple that of a single-spaced
line.
3. Select a spacing option.
For more spacing options, select Line Spacing Options to open the Paragraph dialog box.
It's applied to every page in the document, set behind the text.
P#19 – Steps to set Page Border and Page Colour
You can also add a background color to your document. This color will only appear in digital
copies of the document—Word will not print the page color.
1. On the Design tab, click the Page Color button.
2. Select a color.
Page color won't be printed; it will only appear when viewed digitally—as a Word document,
PDF, or web page.
Add Page Borders
Finally, you can add page borders along the margins to give it a finished look.
1. On the Design tab, click the Page Borders button.
Using the Borders and Shading dialog box, customize how you want the border to look.
2. Select a border style from the Style list.
You can choose from a variety of solid lines, dotted and dashed lines, and patterns.
3. Select a border color.
4. Select a border width.
5. Choose which sides of the page will have a border by clicking the top, bottom, and/or
sides of the preview.
6. Choose which sections of the document will have the border.
You can choose the whole document, just this section, just the first page in this section, or
every page in the section but the first page.
7. Click OK.
The border is added to the selected pages.
P#20 – Steps to set Paragraph Border and Shading
for Design Tab
Step 1: Select the text/Paragraph to apply Border.
Step 2: Now, go to the Borders tab in the Paragraph menu under the Home bar.
Step 3: Select the border of your choice.
Applying Shades
Another way of grabbing the attention of the viewers more likely is by using
the Shading feature in the Word Document. It is similar to highlighting the text/Paragraph.
In MS Word there are multiple colors available in the Shading tab, which you can apply to
your text or paragraph like: red, blue, black, etc.
Steps to Apply:
Step 1: Select the text to apply the Shading.
Step 2: Now, go to the Shading tab in the Paragraph menu under the Home bar.
Step 3: Select the Shading Color of your choice.
However, we can apply both at the same time
(Border and Shading), thus making our paragraph
more appealing.
P#21 – Steps to set columns and line between
option
1. Choose Page Layout > Columns. At the bottom of the list, choose More Columns.
2. In the Columns dialog box, select the check box next to Line between.
P#22 – Steps to set page break and column
break
1. Place your cursor where you want the column to break.
4. Press Enter every time you want a new bullet or number, or press Enter twice to end
the list.
Tip: When you start a paragraph with an asterisk and a space (* ) or with number 1 and a
period (1.), Word displays the AutoCorrect Options button and begins building a bulleted or
numbered list. If you don't want a bulleted or numbered list, click the AutoCorrect
Options button and then click Stop Automatically Creating Bulleted Lists or Stop
Automatically Creating Numbered
Lists.
Restart numbering at 1
1. Click the item that you want to be the first item in the new list.
2. Ctrl+click or right-click the item, and then click Restart numbering.
P#25 – Steps to insert cover page and Drop cap
1. Select the first character of a paragraph.
To create a drop cap that is in the margin, outside of your paragraph, select In
margin.
Tip: You can change the size and font of the drop cap, as well as its distance from the text. To
do so, select Drop Cap > Drop Cap Options, and under Options, make your selections.
P#26 – Steps to insert table, merging of cells and
splitting of tables, convert table to text
Insert a Table
To create a table, you must first determine how many columns (which run up and down)
and rows (which run left to right) you want to appear in your table. Cells are small,
rectangular boxes where the rows and columns intersect. The number of columns and rows
determines the number of cells in a table.
1. Click the Insert tab.
2. Click the Table button.
3. Use the grid to select how many columns and rows you’d like.
The table with the specified number of rows and columns is inserted.
4. Enter your content into your newly created table.
You can use the arrow keys to navigate from cell to cell as you type. You can also press
the Tab key to move to the next cell.
Convert a Table to Text
You can also convert an existing table back into
plain text. This frees up the text from the table,
so that you can keep the table’s data without the
strict table formatting.
1. With the table selected, click the Layout tab.
2. Expand the Data group, if necessary.
3. Click the Convert to Text button.
Link to a bookmark
You can also add hyperlinks that will take you to a bookmarked location in the same
document.
1. Select the text or object you want to use as a hyperlink.
Footnote
1. Click where you want to reference to the footnote or endnote.
2. On the References tab, select Insert Footnote or Insert Endnote.
4. Click OK.
5. Scroll to the first page by clicking <CTRL+Home>.
6. On the Insert tab, in the Header & Footer group, click Footer.
7. Scroll through the document and observe the footer
areas.
Note that now the footers are labelled:
First Page Footer
When Track Changes is on, deletions are marked with a strikethrough, and
additions are marked with an underline. Different authors' changes are
indicated with different colors.
When Track Changes is off, Word stops marking changes, but the colored
underlines and strikethrough from your changes remain in the document
until they're accepted or rejected.
Note: If the Track Changes feature is unavailable, you might need to turn off
document protection. Go to Review > Restrict Editing, and then select Stop
Protection. (You might need to provide the document password.)
Show or hide comments or tracked changes
Display all changes inline
The default in Word is to display deletions and comments in balloons in the margins
of the document. However, you can change the display to show comments inline
and all deletions with strikethroughs instead of inside balloons.
1. On the Review tab, go to Tracking.
2. Select Show Markup.
document.
4. Select the starting document. In this demo we will use the current (blank) document.
Select Use the current document and then
click Next: Select recipients.
o Note that selecting Start from existing document (which we are not doing in
this demo) changes the view and gives you the option to choose your
document. After you choose it, the Mail Merge Wizard reverts to Use the
current document.
5. Select recipients. In this demo we will create a new list, so select Type a new list
and
o Selecting Edit recipient list opens up the Mail Merge Recipients dialog box,
where you can edit the list and select or unselect records. Click OK to accept
the list as is.
document.
o In the Insert Address Block dialog box, check or uncheck boxes and select
options on the left until the address appears the way you want it to.
o Note that you can use Match Fields to correct any problems. Clicking Match
Fields opens up the Match Fields dialog box, in which you can associate the
fields from your list with the fields required by the wizard.
7. Press Enter on your keyboard and click Greeting line... to enter a greeting.
8. In the Insert Greeting Line dialog box, choose the greeting line format by clicking the
drop-down arrows and selecting the options of your choice, and then click OK.
9. Note that the address block and greeting line are surrounded by chevrons (« »).
Write a short letter and click Next:
Preview your letters.
To run a macro, click the button on the Quick Access Toolbar, press the keyboard shortcut, or you
can run the macro from the Macros list.
2. In the list under Macro name, click the macro you want to run.
3. Click Run.
P#34 – Steps to set Cross- Reference
1. In the document, type the text that begins the cross-reference. For example, "See Figure 2
for an explanation of the upward trend."
3. In the Reference type box, click the drop-down list to pick what you want to link to.
The list of what's available depends on the type of item (heading, page number,
etc.) you're linking to.
4. In the Insert reference to box, click the information you want inserted in the
document. Choices depend on what you chose in step 3.
5. In the For which box, click the specific item you want to refer to, such as "Insert the
cross-reference."
6. To allow users to jump to the referenced item, select the Insert as hyperlink check
box.
7. If the Include above/below check box is available, check it to include specify the
relative position of the referenced item.
8. Click Insert.
P#35 – Steps to set Subscript and super script
1. Select the text or number you want.