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Preview a document. To preview a document, click on ‘File’ from the main menu bar and from the resulting drop-down menu, click on ‘Print Preview’. This will open the preview display of the document as has been shown below. To close the preview, click on ‘Close Preview’. Print a document from an installed printer using…

Spell check a document and make changes like: correcting spelling errors, deleting repeated words. To spell check a document, click on ‘Tools’ from the main menu bar and from the resulting drop-down menu, click on ‘Spelling and Grammar’. This will open the ‘Spelling and Grammar’ dialog box. This dialog lists all the incorrect words in…

Add, edit text in headers, footers. To add text in the header or footer of a document, first of all click on ‘Insert’ from the main menu bar and from the resulting drop-down menu, click on ‘Header’ or ‘Footer’ to insert a header or a footer respectively. Both these options will give a sub-menu having…

Recognize good practice in adding new pages: insert a page break rather than using the Return key. When adding new pages, it is always better to use a page break rather than using the return key. This is considered as a best practice while working with any word processing software. This is because when we…

Change document orientation: portrait, landscape. Change paper size. In order to change the document orientation and paper size, click on the ‘Format’ button from the main menu bar. Click on ‘Page…’ button from the resulting drop-down. This gives the ‘Page Style’ dialog box. In this dialog box, under the ‘Page’ tab, the ‘Paper Format’ options…

Insert an object (picture, image, chart, drawn object) to a specified location in a document. To insert an object like an image or a chart to a specific location in a document, first of all bring the text pointer to that location by clicking at that location once. Now click on ‘Insert’ from the main…