Office 2013 Digital Classroom

Word Lesson 3: Beginning Text and Layout Operations

At its heart, Word 2013 is a tool for light-to-medium page layout. In this lesson, you’ll perform a variety of common text editing tasks, work with Styles and Style Sets, and see how text and images work together.

What you’ll learn in this lesson:

• • Entering, editing, and manipulating text elements
• • Adding headers and footers to your document
• • Dressing your text with Styles tools
• • Working with Word’s visual layout tools

Starting up

In this lesson you will work with files from the Word03lessons folder. Make sure that you have loaded the OfficeLessons folder onto your hard drive from www.digitalclassroombooks.com/Office2013. If you need further instructions, see “Loading lesson files” in the Starting up section of this book.

Working with text in Word

Over the decades, MS Word has grown into a complex desktop publishing tool. Most of what you’ll do with Word 2013 is just entering and editing text. But in a graphical application such as Word, text is as much a visual element as any image – so this lesson moves right from basic text entry and formatting to working with visual page elements.

To begin, open two files in your Word03lessons folder and look over them: word03a.docx and word03b.docx. The first is a draft info sheet on pandas; the second includes revised text from a colleague to be inserted into the info sheet. In this ...