In the Microsoft Word 2010 home tab lessons you will find most of
your basic features. These are the tools you will find yourself using
the most when creating a Word document. With this tab you are able to
change the style, size and color of your font, align test, create
bullets and numbers, and cut and paste text.
Type "Happy Birthday" at the top and we will go through the sections
of the home tab to edit and change the text. We will start at the left
and move from section to section.
The first section is the Clipboard. The Clipboard is a very useful
tool to move text, pictures, and charts from one place to another on a
page or from one document to another.
Let's practice using the Clipboard features with our Happy Birthday
text we just typed. Highlight "Happy Birthday" by clicking and holding
the left mouse button down in front of the text and dragging the cursor
to the end and let go.
Once you have done that notice that the scissor icon and the two
pieces of paper icon are no longer grayed out. (when an icon is grayed
out it you are not able to use it).
Now that the icons are functioning, click on the scissors to cut the
text. The text will disappear and go into what is called the clipboard.
You can also do this on the keyboard by pressing the ctrl button
holding it down and pressing x. You can place the mouse over the icon
without clicking and get an explanation and the keyboard command for
each icon. Try placing the mouse over the clipboard icon and wait about
2 seconds and see what happens.
Notice that the scissors and papers have been grayed out again
because there is no text selected for them to cut or copy. Now let's
get our text back. Click on the clipboard icon. Your Happy Birthday
text will be pasted back into your Word document.
This feature will work the same if you switch documents or click in a different location of the same document.
The icon with the two pieces of paper is the copy icon. If you don't
want the text to be removed from the location it is in currently you
can click the paper icon or press ctrl c to copy the text. Then it
works the same as the cut feature you click where you would like the
text placed and click on the clipboard icon.
If you have copied or cut several objects from a document you can view
and select them by viewing your entire clipboard. Click on the little
arrow icon in the bottom right corner of the Clipboard section.
If you have copied or cut several objects from a document you can
view and select them by viewing your entire clipboard. Click on the
little arrow icon in the bottom right corner of the Clipboard section.
This will open the Office Clipboard Task Pane. You will see a list
of everything that had been copied or cut during your session in
Microsoft Word 2010. If you click on any of the items in the list it
will paste them into the document.
Click the x in the upper right corner of the Clipboard Task pane to close it.
If you have a good understanding of the Clipboard we will move on to
the Font section. Again if you have any questions about what a button
is place your mouse over it without clicking and it will give you a
brief description to refresh your memory.
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