Office 2007 Help Sheet 1 Intro to Office Button, Ribbon and Save Features

Office 2007 help sheet 1 Intro to Office Button, Ribbon and Save features. Remember you can do everything you did in Office 98-2003 in addition to some new cool tools.

What’s New. This is the called the “Office Button” (it is similar to the file tab in 2003).

With the Office Button you can: You can also open Create a new Doc. Recent Documents. Open Convert Save Save As Print Prepare Publish Close

Remember you can still do the same things just in a different way:

Instead of pull-down menus (file, edit, format….), 2007 uses a “Ribbon”. The Ribbon is a row of Tabs. The Ribbon Tabs are:

Home Insert Page Layout References Mailings Review View This is the Tab on the Ribbon. If you choose Home it opens these choices:

Clip Board Font Paragraph Styles Editing

This is the Page Layout Tab on the Ribbon. If you choose Page Layout it opens these choices:

Theme Page Setup Page Background Paragraph Arrange

Part 2 How to save: Mouse or Quick Keys (Quick Keys Rock!) 1- How to Save Using your Mouse Click on the Windows button and choose Save Save As: Click on the Windows button and choose Save As , (release mouse button)

This Window Opens

Here you choose where to save the doc Here you can name your doc.

Here you choose what the type or format it will be saved as.

When you click this arrow you get this pull down menu of types/formats.

Pull Down Menu Cont. on next page Choose: Word Document= To save as a Word 2007 document Word 97-2003= use this if you have 97-2003 at home and want to open your doc at home.

Pull down Menu

Easiest/fastest way save is to use Quick Keys If you want to Save: Push and hold Ctrl key (bottom left key on Keyboard) then hit S key. If you want to Save As: (save doc in another format ie.Word 2003, so you could use it on a home comp) Push and hold Alt key (2-3 keys right of Ctrl key) Then hit F key and then A key. More Quick keys I use all the time. Copy- Ctrl key + C key Paste- Ctrl key + V key Cut- Ctrl key + X key Undo- Ctrl key + Z key Print- Ctrl key + Z key Bold- Ctrl key + B key Underline- Ctrl key + Z key Italic- Ctrl key + I key Redo- Ctrl key + Y key Close window- Ctrl key + W key