So let's fix some of these issues. The first thing I'm going to do is click on the picture. Now, something subtle just happened. When I clicked on that photo, look what happened I got an additional tab and ribbon that appeared at the top of Microsoft Word. And this is going to be very important. Anytime you click on something especially something special like a photo or a video, it's going to give you some extra options, in this case, the format options. The first thing I want to do though just resizes this image. So with it selected, I can just go to the corner any corner click, and drag to shrink that photo down to size a little bit. And that's a lot better. Now I still I'm struggling I'm trying to drag it up to the place I want it to be but it's just not quite cooperating with me. The reason why is because this photo has some specific layout options that come pre-selected by default and so I need to change those layout options. Now in this latest version of Microsoft Word. When you click on a photo, you'll get this little button that pops up you can then click on it to change the layout options. But just like in older versions of Microsoft Word, you also have the option to right-click and go to wrap text and that will give you the same options. So hearing Wrap Text I'm going to go within the front of the text or behind the text, either one will work great. I guess I'll choose behind the text and now you can see what happened. Now it's moving much more freely. I was not able to do this before I was not able to click and drag and put the picture Wherever I wanted it to be, but just by changing the options to behind text or in front of the text, now it's unlocked that photo and I can put it literally anywhere in this document that I want it to be, it could even be up here in the header or in the footer, it really doesn't matter. So that's a nice little trick that you'll want to know and be able to use in your own documents. I also want you to know that you can insert online pictures, and this is a great option, you can connect to the internet and do searches and find images, find clipart and things that are on the web, and then just click and drag to drop them into your project. So that's a really nice option to have. Now before we move away from the photo and move on to other topics, I want you to notice this format tab that I mentioned earlier, when you click on a photo and then the Format tab, it gives you some options to do some things that are really nice, you can remove the background. In this case, it wasn't very successful and how it removed the background, you can alter the color scheme in lots of ways you can do some corrections, and there are some artistic effects. And so there are some really pretty exciting things, you can come up with some creepy images here with this skeleton, I'm going to undo that. But these photo effects are really pretty nice, you can compress the picture as well and do some other exciting things.
There are also some picture styles. For example, you can put a frame around Mr. Skeleton here. And there are all sorts of different frames, you can have a kind of a fuzzy border around the skeleton if you'd like you can make it almost 3d with some of these 3d effects. So some really nice options, you can also crop and you'll be surprised how often this is helpful and necessary. So when I clicked on a crop, it gave me some additional lines and edges and things like that. So I can use that to crop out part of the photo whoops, and to make sure I get the exact line there. And then I can just click outside the box and it makes that crop effective. So watch out for this format tab it'll appear and give you some wonderful options that you need to be aware of. There are also all sorts of other great options, especially shapes are especially good. You can put in arrows, you can put in call-outs, you can put in squares, rectangles, circles, plus signs, all sorts of great shapes that are useful, especially for teachers and students. And I want you to know that you can also add a text box now how is the text box special? How is it different from the regular text that you're typing in?? Basically, a text box is an additional text that can float on top of your document. So I'm going to go with a simple text box. And I'll type in a wonderful message here and then click away. This text box now can be dragged wherever I want it to go. Now it is interacting with that text. And if I don't want that to happen, I can use this button here to make it be behind the text the other text or in front of the text, I'm going to go with behind and so now I can drag it freely. So similar to how I fixed this photo and made it so that I could drag it anywhere I wanted it to be. It's similar to text that's in a text box. Okay, nowhere in the review tab. A few other basics that you need to know about whenever you're writing a paper or a report or even a worksheet like this, it's important to get the spelling right and you can see here on the review tab, you can click spelling and grammar and it will check for spelling mistakes. It looks like it found one I don't know how I possibly misspelled this word but I did. And if it can, Microsoft Word will suggest alternate spellings that are correct. In this case, I've got it stumped a little bit. So I'll close that out. But I just wanted to point that out. The spelling and grammar in Word are great and are really one of the basic essentials that you need to know if you're going to be using Microsoft Word. There are also some great options like word count. If you're a student, and the teacher has said I want you to create a 2000 word essay or report it you can just click to get a word count. And it will tell you how many characters how many words how many pages etc. There's also a wonderful thesaurus to help you use a variety of words instead of using the same word over and over. That's very helpful. Okay, so let's say you're done with your document, and it's time to get ready to turn it in. If you're a student and you're finishing an assignment, let's say or maybe you're a teacher, and you've put together what you want to print and give to the students. How do you go from there? Well, one of the first things that you need to do is to consider if you have the right line spacing and things like that, especially for students, maybe the teacher has said I want you to double space your paper. How do you do that? Well here on the Home tab Home ribbon, you can go to paragraph group, and look right here, this is the line and Paragraph Spacing options and you can go in and say I want double spaced. Now for that to really be effective, you need to click and drag to highlight the text that you want to effect. So now when I do line spacing, set it to now my paragraph has double-spaced text. I also want you to notice that you have font color options and all sorts of typical font options that you're probably very accustomed to on all sorts of tools. And on the internet, there are different fonts to choose from here as well. Okay, so I'm happy with this,
I'm good. Of course, I could change the margins left and right using this ruler tool. But if I don't want to mess with that, I'll just leave it as is. Now to finish this off, I just go to File, and I have a bunch of different options. First, I really should save this, and I can click save, I can save it just to this PC. And I could save it directly, let's say to the desktop or my documents. But also notice that there's an option to save it to OneDrive. And if you're not familiar with OneDrive, please watch my YouTube video on OneDrive. It's a wonderful tool similar to Dropbox, but extra good for Microsoft Office and Microsoft Word in this case, now to access that it would be helpful to sign in to your Microsoft account. And that way like it says here, you can get to your documents from anywhere because you'll be signed in to your Microsoft Office account and basically OneDrive. In this case, though, I'll just save it to my desktop, it opens up and I just give it a name. So there's the name I want to use. I click Save, and we're good to go. And of course, I can also click there on file and I could print it now that I've saved it, I could have printed it without saving. But it's a good idea to save first, just so you don't forget. But I can now print and there are all these print options. Now in addition to print and save, notice what else that there is there's export and this is very powerful, I could create a PDF out of this document. So I can click that. Save it also to the desktop in this case. And so now when I go to my desktop Look, there is a PDF document that I've created from inside Microsoft Word. And here's the original in Word format. So that's a nice powerful option just built right into Word. So I'm done. So I'm going to close out this document completely go to my desktop. Let's say next week, I need this same document, I can just go back to word open it up and look because it was recently created, it shows up here. So this is a list of recently created documents on this computer, and there it is at the top. Now as I use this more and more on this computer, I'm going to end up with 20 3050 100 documents, it might be nice. If this is a document that I'm going to keep working on a lot over the next few weeks, it might be a good idea to try to get it to stay at the top of the list. Well, there is a way to do that. If you put your mouse on it Look, there's a little pin and if you click that pin, it will pin this particular document to the top of the list. Now I know right now I just have the one document but imagine 500 documents this document would remain at the top of the list because I pinned it so that's a little trick that I think is helpful to know. So in this tutorial, we have gone over all of the basics that you need to know all of the essentials that you need to know to start using Microsoft Word whether you're a teacher, whether you're a student, a business person, or you just using this on your own at home, Microsoft Word is very powerful. You can use it to make all sorts of things. And what I've given you here today is just the basics to help you get started with a few little bonus tips and tricks in there that are a little bit more than basics. So in the future, I'd like to make an advanced Microsoft Word blog so you can read for that. But thanks for reading, and please consider connecting with me on my blog website.