In this lesson let's take a look at getting Help for Microsoft Word. When you open up Word you have your Start Screen. Up here at the top is a little question mark that will take you directly to Help. You can also press F1 on your keyboard. I'm going to open up a blank document, again you still see the little question mark, takes you directly to Help. Or it gives you the tooltip to press the F1 key on your keyboard. Once I have the Help box up I can minimize maximize or close it of course. If you minimize it just goes down to your Taskbar and you can find it there to reopen it. This little pin right here will force it to stay on the top. Right now it's not, if I pin it, make it go up and down here it will force it to stay on top and I won't lose it when I'm going to back to Word. I could still read this screen. Right here this will take me home on the Help screen. I can print my Help topic or I can change the size of the text. Down here just quick little links I can click on to different areas. I can read about tablet tips, how to use Microsoft Office on my touch device easily. And then I can go back to where I came from. I can search the online help of course. Maybe I want to change my default spacing. So right here it tells me I can change the default line spacing and it shows me how to do it. Now if I unpin this and go to my document, I have to remember what the directions were. If I pin it I can see my directions, click over here and follow step by step what I'm supposed to do. Much easier you don't have to memorize all of it you don't have to print it out if you don't want to. Very quick and easy when you can pin it there. You can just look at your directions and go through it. I'm going to close this out, the other thing I wanted to talk to you about was using Google or some Search Engine when you want to find topics. Maybe I want to look up Microsoft Word and I want to learn about Macros. I can just type that in there. If you use the plus signs, that forces it to use those words in your search. It'll help narrow it down. I can also use quotation marks, maybe I want to learn more about Office 2013. I can put that in quotes, that keeps it all together. Otherwise I'm just going to get Office and then things that are 2013. Office 2013 in quotes requires Google to keep that together so they're side by side. And I could do some plus signs and do macros, line spacing whatever else it is I'm having issues with. So make sure that you can use a Search Engine very well. Look up little Search Engine tips, if you don't like Google, you like to use a different one. See what specific elements they use to make your search so much easier. And of course don't forget you've got Office.Microsoft.com, they have a support area inside there that you can go look at. And also take advantage of some different Microsoft Office forums. What's nice there is they divide it into different categories. A lot of people do Mail Merge in Microsoft Word so they have even a topic on that. A lot of times if I'm really stuck, the Help's not helping me, I'm doing Google searches, I'm not getting anything. I'll go straight to a forum and find somebody who has worked in that specific topic to see if they've come across that issue that I'm having. So take advantage I would join an Office forum, that way you can always go in there and read things also and you can learn a lot from the different things that people post. So go into Word, take a look a the Help Option. Go ahead and do some searches, make sure you can get comfortable with that. That way later on if you ever need it, it will go very quickly for you.
| Course: | Microsoft Word 2013 |
| Author: | Melanie Hedgespeth |
| SKU: | 34401 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-087-9 |
| Release Date: | 2013-01-18 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 147 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |