Microsoft® Office System Plain & Simple -- 2003 Edition

Chapter 2. Office Basics

In this section

• What’s Where in Office?

• Creating a New File

• Working with an Existing File

• Finding a File

• Using Menus and Toolbars

• Working with Task Panes

• Using Smart Tags

• Formatting Your Text

• Moving and Copying Content

• Researching a Subject

• Getting Help

• Printing

• Correcting Your Spelling

The Microsoft Office System is a group of tools, or programs, that you can use individually or in combination with each other. The programs have all been designed to look and work as much like each other as possible, the philosophy being that once you’ve seen one, you’ve seen ’em all! Of course, it’s not quite that simple because each program has a different purpose, so you’ll discover features that are specific to the tasks you’ll be working on in certain ...