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Word 2013 Unit B Editing Documents 1 academic/intro to personal computers CIS 100/handouts and powerpoint slides/word unit B editing documents slides

Cut or Copy and Paste Text 2  Cutting text is REMOVING it from its original place in the document  Copying text LEAVES THE ORIGINAL in it’s place and makes a copy that can be pasted elsewhere.  Pasting text is placing the text it in a NEW location in the document.  The keyboard shortcut for CUT is Ctrl X  The keyboard shortcut for COPY is Ctrl C  The keyboard shortcut for paste is Ctrl V (as in Victory) academic/intro to personal computers CIS 100/handouts and powerpoint slides/word unit B editing documents slides

Office Clipboard 3  Clipboard is a place where text and/or graphics are stored and can be inserted into the document with a click.  The Clipboard can hold 24 pieces of text and/or graphics at once  Generally used to store frequently used phrases such as Sincerely Yours or your company name  May also be used to store a letterhead that can be dropped into a document so that the company does not have to print stationary  May want to load the clipboard every morning with helpful items academic/intro to personal computers CIS 100/handouts and powerpoint slides/word unit B editing documents slides

Find 4  Find is used to locate every instance of a particular word in the entire document  The instances will be highlighted in the document so that you can see them easily academic/intro to personal computers CIS 100/handouts and powerpoint slides/word unit B editing documents slides

Replace 5  Used to change every instance of a word or phrase to another word or phrase  Example: change every instance of Mr. White to Mr. Whyte (the original spelling was wrong and every time the name appeared in a document it had to be changed to the correct spelling) academic/intro to personal computers CIS 100/handouts and powerpoint slides/word unit B editing documents slides

Spelling and Grammar Checking 6  Word checks each word in a document one word at a time as you type  It will flag words that are misspelled and grammar that is not correct by placing a wavy line underneath the word  However , you can run a spellcheck of the entire document at once  Each word is first compared to the main dictionary  Then, if a match is not found in the main dictionary, it is compared to words in the custom dictionary academic/intro to personal computers CIS 100/handouts and powerpoint slides/word unit B editing documents slides

Spelling and Grammar Checking 7  Two dictionaries are used Custom Main Dictionary Dictionary Contains words that are Initially empty; contains words found in dictionaries words words that are NOT found in dictionaries; for example, proper names Words are checked here first . Words that are not found in the main dictionary are checked a second time here in the custom dictionary. academic/intro to personal computers CIS 100/handouts and powerpoint slides/word unit B editing documents slides

If the word is still not found in either dictionary, you have several choices 8 academic/intro to personal computers CIS 100/handouts and powerpoint slides/word unit B editing documents slides

Document Statistics 9  At the end of a spell check, Word can give you statistics such as:  Character count with or without words in textboxes, endnotes, and footnotes  Number of paragraphs  Number of pages  Number of lines  Number of words academic/intro to personal computers CIS 100/handouts and powerpoint slides/word unit B editing documents slides

Research-Thesaurus 10  Thesaurus (gives you a list of synonyms)  Can get further lists of synonyms for the synonyms on the list academic/intro to personal computers CIS 100/handouts and powerpoint slides/word unit B editing documents slides

Electronic Bookmarks 11  Much the same as regular bookmarks, you can mark places in a Word document  You can move from bookmark to bookmark  You can direct hyperlinks to go to a bookmark  You can remove the bookmarks when you no longer need them  Each bookmark must have a unique name  Each bookmark name must be one word academic/intro to personal computers CIS 100/handouts and powerpoint slides/word unit B editing documents slides

Hyperlinks 12  Hyperlinks allow you to jump from one place to another (you’ve used them on the Internet)  Some of the places you can jump to from your Word document are:  A bookmark in the same document  A PowerPoint presentation  An Excel file  A web site on the Internet academic/intro to personal computers CIS 100/handouts and powerpoint slides/word unit B editing documents slides

Document Properties 13  Document Properties are pieces of information that do not show in your document, but can be looked at when desired  When distributing a document through e-mail or placing it on the Internet, you should check your document to make sure that it does not contain information that you do not want circulated in public.  You can insert information in the properties. You can put in key words, subject, author, and so on.  If your boss is named Mr. Wilson, and he had you compose a report to go out under his or her name, you might want to check to see that you are not listed as the author of the file. academic/intro to personal computers CIS 100/handouts and powerpoint slides/word unit B editing documents slides