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While creating your document, you may find you need to insert text—place new text between existing characters. For example, you type the sentence, “Joe has a large boat.” After typing it, you decide you want to change the sentence to, “Joe has a large blue boat.” With Microsoft Word, you can insert a character, a

In Word, before you can perform any action on text, you must select it. For example, if you want to bold, select the text you want to bold and then click the Bold button. Word highlights selected text. In this section, I will introduce you to many ways to select text. There is no single

In Microsoft Word, you create documents by typing them. For example, if you want to create a report, you open Microsoft Word and begin typing. You do not have to do anything when your text reaches the right margin—Microsoft Word automatically continues your text on a new line. Start a New Paragraph If you want

In this lesson, I will explain how to type, to insert and to delete text. I will define what a font is and show you how to change the font, the font size, case, and color. In addition, I will explain how to highlight, apply text effects, superscript, subscript, strikethrough, bold, italic, underline, hide text,

Before you can make changes to a saved document, you must open the document. If the Start screen appears when you open Word, a list of the documents you most recently worked on appears along the left side of the window. If the document you want is on the list, click the document name to open it; otherwise, click Open Other Documents at the bottom of the list to display the Open window.

When you have completed work on a document, you can close it to free up memory and unclutter your screen. You can close the document without exiting Word or you can close the document and exit Word.

OneDrive is a way to store your files online. This is often referred to as storing files in the cloud. When you store a file online, you can access it from anywhere, using such devices as laptop computers, desktop computers, mobile phones, or tablet PCs.

After creating a document, you will probably want to preserve the work you have done. You do that by saving your document. With Word 2013, you can save your document on a drive, on SkyDrive, or both.

The following list explains how to move around your Word document. If you want to move to a specific location in a document, click that location. Then, if you want to insert text, begin typing.

To tell a program—any program—what to do, you issue commands. Microsoft Word gives you many ways to issue commands: clicking the command’s button, using keyboard shortcuts, using the Mini toolbar, using the Context menu, or using dialog boxes, and—if you are using a touch-sensitive screen—touching the screen. Choose the method that is appropriate and seems the most comfortable to you.