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Starting an Office Application
You can start an Office application using the Start menu. Once the program starts, a brief copyright screen appears and then the application window opens.
When an Office application starts, a window opens similar to the one in the diagram below, which shows the window in Word. The title bar, which appears at the top of the application window, displays the name of the current document and the name of the application. Under the title bar is the menu bar which allows you to access various commands that are grouped according to function. Below the menu bar is a row containing two separate toolbars and the horizontal ruler (if displayed). The toolbar buttons provide shortcuts to many menu commands. A new, blank document appears in the document area.
Thestatus bar appears at the bottom of the application window and provides information such as the current location of the insertion point and the number of pages in the document.
The scroll bars appear below and to the right in the document window. They (both horizontal and vertical) allow you to quickly move around in the window. The horizontal scroll bar contains the View buttons, which are shortcuts for changing the document view.
An Office application window includes several help features. The Office Assistant, a context-sensitive help feature, may appear within its own window when you open an Office program. Another help feature is ScreenTips, which are brief descriptions that pop-up when you point to certain objects in the window such as toolbar buttons.
Read through the steps: Follow the steps below if you would like to complete the process in an actual Office file.
Practice the Skill
- Click the Start button
on the taskbar.
The Start menu appears. - Point to Programs
.
The Programs submenu appears. - Select (click) the Microsoft Word
icon.
Word opens. - If the Office Assistant appears, select Start using Microsoft Word to close the balloon and start using Word.
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