Office For Seniors For Dummies

Chapter 4

Composing Your Thoughts in Word

IN THIS CHAPTER

Examine the Word Interface

Move Around and Select Text

Choose Paper Size and Orientation

Set Margins

Select the Right Screen View

Align and Indent Paragraphs

Change Line Spacing

Create Bulleted and Numbered Lists

If you’ve read this book to this point, you’ve seen the common features across the various Office applications, in a general way. In this chapter, it’s time to get down to brass tacks with one particular application: Microsoft Word.

Word is a word processing program. That’s a fancy way of saying that it specializes in creating and formatting (that is, processing) text. Word is ideal for projects that are primarily text-based: ...