Ok, now that you have gone over a few of the programs already installed into you computer, let us look at the Word Processing one now. This is the most used, most versatile program on the computer.
There are tons of things you can do here, beside just type. Think of the screen as you pen and paper. One thing about paper on a computer, you never run out of paper! There is no use for products like "Write-Out", that covers up your mistakes….on the computer, you just use the "backspace key" to correct mistakes., or use the spell/grammar check.
Now, let us open a word processing window. Go to your start button, then click on All Programs at the bottom, then scroll down until you see "Microsoft Works", click on that, then look for Word Processor, and click. It should only take a few seconds to open up. You have a blank piece of paper now, with a line flashing at the top of it. This is the cursor line, this is where your typing is. It will move along as you type.
Type a short sentence, or paragraph of anything. Now, look on top where it reads… File, Edit, View, Insert and etc. This is your toolbar in which to work from. Let's go to FILE, click on it, then look for "save as", and click again. A window should pop-up asking you to name your paper. You can either use the backspace key, or click on the end of what is already there, and backspace each letter backwards…. Then type in what you what to call this that you typed up, then click on "save".
To find it again, just click on the start button, then move your mouse up to Documents and click. The Document window will then open, and you should see your paper there that you just typed up and saved!
Pictures
Let's click on your document again, let it open. Now, look up on top… INSERT, and click. Move the mouse down until you see "picture" highlighted, then move over to "from file", and click. The Picture window will open, now click on the "sample" folder that is there, and yet another window will open, this is where the pictures are. Pick a picture and click. The picture should be in you document! Now click again outside of the picture, to un-highlight the picture, and you have a picture in the document! Then you can either go up to file, and click "save" or to remove the picture, just click on it, and use the backspace key to remove it.
ClipArt is done about the same way as inserting a picture. Go to Insert, move your mouse to picture, then move it over to "clipart", and click it. The ClipArt window will open, and then you can pick from hundreds of clipart pictures and click to get it into the document. Now, go ahead and see what all those other little icon and words on the top are for, try them out… see what they do, and have fun!
