Microsoft Word Tutorial For Beginners

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The key takeaways from the document are how to format text using different heading styles in Microsoft Word, how to create an automated table of contents, how to number pages, and how to perform a mail merge.

The document discusses three different heading styles - Heading 1 for chapter titles, Heading 2 for sub-chapters, and Heading 3 for sub-sub-chapters. It provides instructions on how to apply these styles.

To create an automated table of contents, you select the 'Table of Contents' option under the 'References' tab in Word and choose one of the built-in styles like 'Automatic Table 1'. This will generate a table of contents based on the heading styles used in the document.

HEADING STYLE

Heading Style is a facility that can help us to make an automated


format for first chapter or else.
Heading is very useful to make a document with an automated
formating like chaptering report and else. For examples :
1. Chapter titles:
Chapter I Introduction
Chapter II Review of Library
2. Sub Chapter:
A. background
B. Research purpose
C. benefit Research
A. Learning Media
B. Computer as Learning Media
3. Sub-sub-chapter:
1. Definition of learning media
2. Classification of learning media
1. The fact computers as teaching aids
2. The use of computers for learning media

Next, determine the category chapter title, sub chapter title, and sub-subchapter title in the Category Heading Style in Microsoft Word.
1. Title Chapter use Heading 1
2. Sub Chapter will use Heading 2
3. Sub-sub-Chapter using Heading 3

1. Select the HOME tab.

2. Block the text Chapter I Introduction and on the Home menu, select and
click on Heading 1 Styles.

Note: When you first use the Styles Heading 1, the format of the text, font colors,
letters size will be set by default by Microsoft Word. To set the text format, font
color, fonts size, font type and etc. can be done by going through this steps :
a. Click Bottom down arrow on the Styles menu
b. Click the Apply Styles menu
c. In the Apply Styles dialog box, click Modify
d. In the Style Name section you can put anything you want.
e. After you done with the modifying, click Apply/Reapply.

3. Apply Styles dialog box appears, in this dialog box you can set the font style, font
size, font color, numbering, paragraphs, tabs, border, and etc. As you can see on this
picture below, format tab on bottom left coener, it will show more menu when you
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click it. And at the middle of the dialog box is thepreview panel, and the boxed
section is the formating section where you can changes the format of your typing.

1. As for Chapter II Review of the library in the category Heading 1, simply by clicking
the Chapter I Introduction and select Format Painter available in the Home menu, and
on the Clipboard section, then it will automatically become like Chapter I
2. The next step is formating the sub-chapter format nad it is using heading 2 in the same
way with the formatting to heading 1 or Chapter I.
3. And the last step is, formating sub-sub-chapter format using heading 3 in the same
way you formatting the heading 1 and 2.
4. For numbering the sub-chapter or sub-sub-chapter you will have to
use Numbering from Home tab and then use Multilevel list on the

same

Tab

as

Numbering.

5. The default numbering will be Roman Number format, but if you


wish to change it to legal number, here is the step, right click on the
number like on the picture, and the select Adjust List Indent
after the dialog box pop up, click More , and thick the Use
Legal Numbering .

TABLE OF CONTENT
Now we advancing to Table of Content chapter, we will learn how to make
an automated table of content wihout having you to type it by your self.
This table of content is depending on what you have writen, it will make a
list of chapter if only you made it with the Heading Style, so it was
connected with thisTable of Content.
For an Example : We have some chapter, sub-chapter, and sub-subchapter here as shown below.
Chapter I Introduction
Chapter II Learning
II.1 Learning purpose
II.2 Learning times
Chapter III Learning Media
III.1 Electronic
III.1.1 Tablet
III.1.2 Computer
III.2 Book
To make the table of content of the data above, here is the step :
1. Go to References tab on Ms.Word, then select The Table of
Content menu, and choose one of the built-in styles, but we
recommend that you use only the Automatic Table 1 or
Automatic Table 2

2. And Ta-Dah! A Table of Content is appear from nowhere ^^

3. But, if you have made a change to your document, and it doesnt


showed on the Table of Content, dont worry, simply click on the
Update Table ... option, and choose Update Entire Table

TABLE OF FIGURE
In this section we will learn about how to make a table of table or picture
contained in the document. Here is the steps.
1. First make a table or inserting a picture, inserting a picture can be
done by dragging the picture to the Word document, i will show you
how to inserting table or creating new table.
2. First selecct the Insert tab on Ms. Word menu, and then select
Table option, and chose one of the feature that has been
prepared.

3. Now give the table a caption, by going through this steps. Right click
on the corner of the table this icon is the indicator.

4. Now choose Insert caption, as shown below by picture. Click on


New Label option to define a new label of table. Give the new
label name Table or picture, according to what item you want to
apply this caption dont forget to give a name to the caption. Then
click OK

5. Now click the References tab on the menu, and choose Insert
table of Figures.

Do the same thing to giving a picture a caption, and the same way
to make a table of figure but this time you have to choose the label
you give to your picture.

PAGE NUMBERING
Here by, we will learn how to giving number to each pages, separating the
Roman Number and The Legal Number. Giving number to pages can be
done by going through these steps.
1. Click Insert tab on Ms.Word menu, and choose option Page
Number, and select one of the built-in template.

2. If you wish to change the number format, from Roman to Legal


Number or from Legal to Roman Number, simply click on Format
Page Number option on drop down of Page Number Menu, and
choose the number format of page you want to use, and on the
Page numbering section, select the Start at : radio menu to
determine the page number start from where you click it on the last
time.

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3. Last one, if you wish to make a different page number from the front
pages to the content of your writing, first click on Page Layout
tab on Ms. Word, and select the Breaks option, and choose Next
Page to break the numbering format to the pages before it.

4. And then give it the number you want, for example; click on the
separated page and repeat the steps number 1, but this time thick
the Different from first page option on Headers & Footers
Tools Desing tab. Select the Start at: button and write 1 and at
the Number Format Section Legal Number 1,2,3,...

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MAIL MERGE
Last topic in this tutorial is the Mail Merge, here we will learn how to
merge Ms. Word with Ms. Excel and to take its content and show it in Ms.
Word, and to make a letter with this feature.
But before we continue to the steps, we first have to make or prepare ;
1. Prepare or make an Ms. Excel database, it may content name, phone
number, address, or anything that includes in invitation or depend on what
letter you would like to make.
2. Set the option that make Ms. Word read the Ms. Excel database from
Mail Merge fucntion.
Here is the steps :
1. Create a databse on Ms. Excel. For example, see picture below

2. After youfinished with the creating and editing the Excel work sheet, then
rename it, follow picture below, rename it to anything you want.

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3. Then save it, name it anything. I give you some Tips, put the Excel
worksheet together with the Word document in one same folder, so that
Word will easily gather information from the worksheet.
Now we have a worksheet ready to merged with document.
1. Start Ms. Word, make a letter design, example is shown below, but keep
the same data as the excel worksheet, like, name, address, and else.

2. Now, click on Mailings tab, and choose Select Recipients if you


have putted the Excel worksheet together in one folder with Word
documents that currently made in progress. A new dialog box will pop-up
now choose the Excel worksheet that youve made.

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3. After you select the worksheet youve made, a new window will pop-up,
like shown below. Choose the sheet that you have made.

4. Now, select the Insert merge field option on Mailings tab. See
picture below,

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5. Click on what is appropriate with the information shown on the document,


such as name, address, must be matched with what is contained in the
worksheet.

The tutorial ends here, thank you for your attention for reading my tutorial
with Ms. Word. See you on next tutorial. ^^

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