Chapter 1: A First Look at Word

Are you ready to get started in Word? In this first chapter, you become familiar with the Word working environment and you learn basic ways to navigate and to enter text.

Open Word

You can open Microsoft Word a number of ways. This section demonstrates how to open Microsoft Word from the All Programs menu. Once Word opens, a blank document, ready for you to type text, appears.

1. Click start.

2. Click All Programs.

3. Click Microsoft Office.

4. Click Microsoft Office Word 2003.

   

   A blank document appears in the Word window.

   A button representing the document appears in the Windows Taskbar.

   To close Word, click the Close icon ().