Click on   Start    
(which you will see at the bottom left of the screen)

A Start menu appears

Click on Programs  (top of the list) and drag the mouse pointer across the word Programs towards the right - a new menu appears to the right of the Start menu.

Click on Microsoft Word
You will see  . Once your mouse pointer    is on this line it  will appear with a dark blue background  (see above). Now click the left-hand mouse button to load the programme.

Information commonly found on a Word 97 screen.

The top line (which is dark blue) will show . This shows the name of the programme and the filename. The name "Document1" is given to the file until you give it a different name.

For example if you were typing a Fractions Test and called it "Fractions Test1" it would look like this: .

Menus

The next line shows various menu options.

When you click on a word a menu is "pulled down". For example if you click on "File" the File Menu will pull down as follows:

Notice how some options in the file menu correspond with icons on the toolbar below the menus (icons to the left of the words). For example, to open a file you could click on File  Open, or you could click on the yellow icon    in the toolbar that does the same thing. You have a choice of which method to use.

There is another option. You will notice on the right-hand side of the file menu that there are keyboard shortcuts that perform certain functions. For instance, if you wanted to open a file you could use the keyboard shortcut instead of the file menu or the icon (see previous paragraph). Notice that the keyboard option is Ctrl-O. In other words, you press the Ctrl key, keep it pressed down and with the other hand you press the O key once. Icons

The standard toolbar looks like this:

These are various tools that you could use. All offer shorter ways of doing things than using one of the menu options (as has been explained in the previous paragraph). Place the mouse pointer    over these buttons (also known as icons) and you will see what they are used for.

Below the standard toolbar is the formatting toolbar.

These icons are tools that are used to change the appearance of text on the page.

At the bottom of the screen you will see a status bar

This provides information about your position in the document (page number, line number etc). Printing a document

Click on File
Click Print

You will see a pop-up screen that allows you to make several choices

If you have more than one printer connected / used by the computer you should check that the correct one is selected by looking at the Name: box.

Under Page range you have the option of printing the whole document (All), just the Current  Page, or selected Pages.

However, normally you will just click on the OK button to print the whole document.

There are two options for exiting Word.

Click File
Click Exit

or

Click on  the X in the very top right-hand corner of the screen.