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When you open Microsoft Office Word 2007 for the first time, you'll notice that it looks very different. That's because it's been redesigned to make your work easier, faster, and more efficient. How does it do that? For starters, it introduces a new feature, the Ribbon, part of the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface, which brings the most popular commands to the forefront. Now you won't have to hunt in various parts of the program for things you do all the time. Another time-saving feature is the Mini toolbar, which displays formatting commands in the document, right where you want to use them. There's also the new Quick Styles, ready-made styles that give your document a professional makeover fast.

Watch this demo to get familiar with the new design, and to see for yourself that you won't have to learn Word all over again.

How to do it (text version):

• Use the Ribbon
• Customize the Quick Access Toolbar
• Create a new Quick Style
• Add and remove styles from the Styles gallery
• Insert headers and footers
• Zoom in or out of a document
• What happened to the File menu?
• Introduction to new file name extensions and Office XML Formats

Online training:

• Up to speed with Word 2007

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