The Status Bar in Microsoft Office, Word

This is located at the bottom of the application window and gives information regarding the status of the document and the task you are currently performing.

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The left part of the bar shows information relative to the insertion point position in the document. It display the current page number, section number and current page number followed by a slash and total number of pages in the document. The next portion shows the precise location of the insertion point, i.e., inches from the top margin, line number starting from the top most line in the page, and the column number based on the number of characters. The last section shows when certain Word modes and features are activated. For Example, When you press the insert button on the keyboard, the OVR mode is highlighted. The mode made the characters you type to replace the characters to the right of the insertion point. Double Clicking these modes can make them active and inactive.

The Scroll Bar in Microsoft Office Word

Scroll bars, like in any other program windows, help in viewing a document that takes up more space than the document window view area. This may happen if document has more than one page or the zoom size for viewing large enough. The single up and down arrow in the vertical scroll bar make the document scroll one line in the direction of the arrow as they are clicked with the mouse. The box within the scroll bar indicates the position of the insertion point to the top of the previous page, and the down one move it to the top of the next page. The icon

in the middle of the double-headed arrows is the 'Select Browser Object' Option Button. It gives you different options to place the insertion point according to the browse setting you choose. These include browse by page ( this selection is by default) , end note, footnote, section, table, graphic, headings, etc.

The Ruler in MS Word

The Horizontal ruler, as shown in image below

 

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is placed across the top of the document window. It gives quick mouse access for changing paragraph indents, adjusting  margins, setting tab stops, and changing width of columns. To display or hide the ruler. click View menu and then click Ruler.

The ruler shows the available text area, indent markers and tab settings. It show any applied settings as you move the insertion point through your document.

Microsoft Office, Word Toolbars

Toolbars are set of icons that let you access several of the most common Word commands with a click of mouse button without needing to go into any of the menus. The Standard and Formating toolbars are display just below the menu bar by default. Other toolbars can be displayed by choosing them from the toolbar submenu in the VIEW  menu list. The selected toolbar icons, like changing their size, colour, hiding tool tips, and also creating your own customized toolbar collection.

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General MS Word Toolbars

When you display other toolbars, they either appear stacked in the order you display them or float on screen like small windows. Toolbars when stacked under the Menu bar are termed as 'anchored' , and while appearing as small windows are called 'floating' toolbars.An anchor toolbar can be changed into a floating one and vice versa. To displayed. You can also double click  the background of a toolbar to change it to the background of the toolbar to change it to the floating state. To anchor a toolbar, drag it just below the menu bar or double click in the background of the toolbar or title bar.

Dialogue Boxes

A dialogue box is a small windows that opens up in the main application windows when certain command are intiated. Typically , choosing a command in a menu or a button followed by an ellipsis (....) display a dialogue box. A dialogue box offer a variety of choices related to the command that was chosen. These choices are further accessible buttons and tabs. Tabs show sets of related options and are graphically shown as file folders in the dialogue window.Checking each tab display a set of each commands that are related to the main command. This help in organizing and accessing different options related to a command.In a dialogue box, if a label for a setting, group of setting or a button is grayed out, it that that setting option is not available. Available setting setting have black text labels. After settings the different option for a command in a dialogue box, it is necessary to click OK button to apply the changes, or cancel button to exit the dialogue box without applying the settings. When inside a dialogue box, windows does not let you access any other parts of the main application window unless the open dialogue box is first closed by either choosing OK or Cancel. This inaccessibility is reminded by a short beep.

Opening Microosft Word Documents As Read-Only and As a Copy

To Open a document as a read-only or open as a copy the following steps are involved.
1. Click file menu Open or Press Ctrl+O from the keyboard or click on open icon on standard toolbar.
2. Open Dialogue box will be appear.
3. Choose the location or look in folder where the file is stored.
4. Select the name of the file from the file list or type the name of the file in file name box or Double click on file.
5. Give the type of the document in file of type box.
6. Click open Command and setting button.

7. The desired document will be open as read-only or open as a copy.

Opening Documents MS word

Here are Some General Ways for opening word documents.
From file Menu
1. Click File Menu.
2. Click Open Sub Menu.

3. Open Dialogue Box will be appear.
4. Choose the location or look in folder where the file is stored.
5. Select the name of the file from the file list or type the name of the file in file name box or Double click on file.
6. Give the type of the document in file of type box.
7. Click open button
8. The desired document will be open.

From Toolbar
1. Click open tool   on the standard toolbar.

2. Open Dialogue Box will be appear.

3. Choose the location or look in folder where the file is stored.
4. Select the name of the file from the file list or type the name of the file in file name box or Double click on file.
5. Give the type of the document in file of type box.
6. Click open button
7. The desired document will be open.

Thorough Keyboard Shortcut key
1. Press Ctrl+O from the keyboard .

2. Open Dialogue Box will be appear.
3. Choose the location or look in folder where the file is stored.
4. Select the name of the file from the file list or type the name of the file in file name box or Double click on file.
5. Give the type of the document in file of type box.
6. Click open button
7. The desired document will be open.