Simple Stuff Microsoft Word, Word Perfect and Google Docs are word processors. The original purpose of a word processor was to work with text. Many of the steps for entering text mimic an old typewriter because word processors competed with typewriters in the early days. This lesson is simple: can you type? Can you select the text and format it? Try it: Enter Type Type the words: Go Blue! Press the Enter key on the keyboard.   Using Enter is like hitting the return key on an old typewriter. It gives you a new line. Move your mouse around the page. The mouse looks like an I-beam. Click your mouse at the end of the word “Blue.” Do you see a flashing vertical line? That’s the cursor, insertion point. Whatever you type next will start from that point.   Delete Type Click your cursor at the end of the word “Blue.” Use the backspace key on your keyboard. The word is removed one letter at a time. Exam 77-418 Microsoft Word 2013 2.0  Format Text, Paragraphs, and Sections 2.1  Insert Text and Paragraphs

Microsoft Word 2013