Starting an Office Program


You re probably eager to get started learning about Office. However, to work with any of the Office programs, you need to know how to use your computer s mouse, so first let s review some basic mouse operations.

As you move the mouse, the pointer moves correspondingly on the screen so that you can point to the item you want to work with. The pointer often looks like an arrow, but it can take other forms such as an I-beam when over text, a hand when over an item that is linked to another location, or an hourglass when you need to wait for a program to process information. When the pointer is where you want it, you can click one of the mouse buttons to tell the computer that you want to do something with the item under the pointer. These are the different ways of clicking:

  • Clicking. You click by simply pressing and releasing the primary mouse button once. In this course, we assume that you are using the left mouse button as your primary button and the right mouse button as your secondary button. If you have reversed the primary and secondary buttons, you would click the right mouse button instead.

  • Right-clicking. You right-click by pressing and releasing the secondary mouse button once. When we say Right-click the toolbar , we mean Move the pointer to the toolbar, and press and release the right mouse button once . If you have reversed the buttons, you would click the left mouse button instead. When you right-click an object or selection, a menu, called a shortcut menu , appears. We discuss shortcut menus later in this chapter.

  • Double-clicking. You double-click by quickly clicking the primary mouse button twice.

Shortcut menus:Using a Shortcut Menu Command If you need to reverse your mouse buttons or make any other mouse adjustments, consult the Help file for your version of Microsoft Windows before you continue with this course.

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Starting a Program from the Start Menu

There are several ways to start Office programs. When you re first getting started and don t have existing files, the easiest way is by selecting the program you want from the Start menu.

Follow these steps to start Word from the Start menu now:

  1. Click the Start button at the left end of the Windows taskbar.

  2. On the Start menu, click All Programs , and then click Microsoft Word .

    Other ways to start Office programs If the Office Assistant appears when you first open Word, hide it by right-clicking it and then clicking Hide on the shortcut menu.

    Office Assistant:About the Office Assistant Now we ll prepare the workspace and display more of the document window.

  3. Right-click the taskbar, and click Properties on the shortcut menu.

  4. In the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog box, select the Auto-hide the taskbar check box, and click OK .

    The taskbar disappears, and the program window expands to fill the newly available space.

  5. Point to the bottom of the screen to make the taskbar temporarily reappear, and then click a blank area of the workspace to hide the taskbar again.

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    Your screen looks something like the one shown in this graphic:

    click to expand

    As you can see, a new blank document is displayed on the left side of the screen, and the New Document task pane is displayed on the right. You can use this task pane to open an existing document or to create a new one. You can also create a new web page or an e-mail message from this task pane. For now though, let s close the pane.

  6. Click the Close button (the X) at the right end of the task pane s title bar.

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Other ways to start Office programs

There are several ways to start an Office program besides clicking it on the Start menu:

  • You can create a shortcut for the program on your desktop by right-clicking an open area of the desktop and clicking New and then Shortcut on the shortcut menu. In the Create Shortcut dialog box, click the Browse button, navigate to the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10 folder, click the name of the program, and then click OK. Click Next, type a name for the shortcut icon, and then click Finish.

  • For maximum efficiency, you can start the program and open a recently accessed document by clicking the document on the My Recent Documents submenu of the Start menu, where Windows stores links to up to 15 of your most recently opened files.

  • You can also click Open Office Document at the top of the All Programs menu (or the Start menu if you are running Windows 2000) and navigate to the folder in which the document you want to open is stored. To start the program and open a new document, you can click New Office Document at the top of the All Programs menu and then double-click the icon for the type of document you want to create.

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Online Traning Solutions - Quick Course in Microsoft Office XP
Online Traning Solutions - Quick Course in Microsoft Office XP
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