The major components of MS-Word 2007 are:
Office Button
It is found in the top-left corner of MS -Word window and looks like the pictures to the right. When the Office button is clicked, many of the options such as New, Open, Save, Save As, Prepare, Print, Send, Publish, Close, etc., can be found.
Title Bar
It is located at the top of the window and display the document name. The format of the name displayed on the title bar is ‘Document name-Microsoft Word’.
Quick Access Toolbar
It is placed to the right of the Office button. It contains shortcut for the commonly used tools, like save, undo, redo, etc. It can also be placed below the ribbon also.
Control Buttons
There are three types of control buttons as follows:
(i) Minimize button
(ii) Maximize or Restore down button
(iii) Close button
Ribbon
In ribbon, there are many buttons/options that are grouped into categories according to tab such as Clipboard, Font, Paragraph, Styles, Editing, etc., which are the groups of Home tab.
Tabs
Tabs are similar to the menu system of MS-Word 2003. Instead of having drop down menus,
MS-Word 2007 created a ribbon system, where buttons and commands are grouped under the tabs. Some groups include a dialog launcher button in their lower right corner to bring up additional options. Different types of tabs are:
Home
This tab is used to change font, styles, settings of paragraphs, etc.
Insert
Tab is used to insert page breaks, tables, illustrations, links, header and footer, text and symbols, etc.
Page Layout
Tab is used to change themes, margins, orientation, insert a page border, column, format paragraph, etc.
References
Tab is used to insert table footnotes, citation and bibliography captions, index, etc.
Mailings
Tab is used to create envelopes, labels, start mail merge, write and insert fields and preview results, etc.
Review
Tab is used for proofing, comments, tracking, comparing the documents, etc.
View
Tab is used to change the outline or draft views, display the ruler or document map, zoom, switch windows, etc.
After inserting a picture in MS-Word 2007, a new tab appears namely- Picture Tools Format. It includes adjust, picture styles, arrange and size groups in it. By using this tab, a user can edit pictures according to his/her need.
Ruler
It appears on the top and on the left side of the document window.Ruler is used to set tabs, indents and margins for a document. It allows to format the horizontal or vertical alignment of text in a document.
Scroll Bar
Scroll bar is used to view the whole active window. There are two types of scroll bars i.e. horizontal and vertical scroll bars.
Status Bar
It is displayed on the bottom of the window and used to view the information such as page number, current page, current template, column number, line number, etc.
Zoom Control
Lets you zoom in for a closer look at your text. The zoom control consists of a slider. You can slide it left or right to zoom in or out, to increase or decrease the zoom factor.
View Buttons
The group of five buttons located to the left of the zoom control lets you switch among word’s various document views. Like
• Print Layout View
• Full Screen Reading View
• Web Layout View
• Outline View
• Draft View
Work Area/Work Space
It is the rectangular area of the document window, where you can type the text.
Using Help Button
To open Help window, click the Microsoft Office Help button in the right corner of the ribbon or press the F1 key on your keyboard. Now, following Word Help dialog box appears.
Help option allow users to search and find any topic about that program. To use this feature write any topic name in text box and click on Search button or press Enter. It will then display the related information about that topic.