What is a Word Processor?

Word processor is a computer software that is used for creating and formatting a
document by using keyboard. After creating the document, we can save it for
future use and also print it on a paper.

What are the Functions of a Word Processor?

We use word processor to:
1. Create documents like applications, letters, reports, etc.
2. Modify the document by editing and formatting
3. Change color and font style off text
4. Add tables and pictures to make the document more attractive
5. Save the document for future use
6. Print the document on paper

What are some types of Word Processors?

Some types of word processors are:
1. MS Word: created by Microsoft for Macintosh & Windows based computers
2. Google Docs: free online word processor
3. Writer: free, open-source word processor, part of LibreOffice suite

Opening MS-Word (from scratch)

Start  All Apps  Scroll down  Word  Click on Blank document –
Document1

Either open recent document or create a new document

If MS Word already open:

File  Blank document or Ctrl + N
Title Bar:
- Topmost bar of the window
- Displays name of the currently active Word document

Program Control Buttons:

- Minimize, maximize/ restore, close the document

Quick Access Toolbar:

- buttons for save, undo, redo

Ribbon Tab:
- set of tools for an overall task to be performed in the document
Ribbon:
- displays group of related commands or buttons to perform common task

Tell me what to do:

- search feature which helps us to find or locate commands on the Ribbon

File Tab:
- Backstage view with commands like open, save, print

Scroll Bar:
- Helps us to move the text up, down, left, right

Status Bar:
- Bottom of the Word window.
- Displays information like page number, word count, language, line number, etc.
Views of Document:
- view your document in 3 different ways like read mode, print layout and web
layout

Zoom Controls:
- enlarge or reduce the view of document

Work Area:
- Area in the document window where we enter or type the text

Insertion Point:
- Small vertical flashing line on the screen that shows the place where the text we
type will appear
 Shortcut Keys:

Opening a new file/ Creating a new document: CTRL+N

Opening an existing file: CTRL+O

Bold: CTRL+B

Italic: CTRL+I

Underline: CTRL+U

Deleting a text / Cut: CTRL+X

Copy: CTRL+C

Paste: CTRL+V

Cut & Paste: CTRL+X & CTRL+V

Copy & Paste: CTRL+C & CTRL+V

Select Entire Text (In All The Pages): CTRL+A

Undo: CTRL+Z

Saving a file: CTRL+S

 PRATICAL 1

1. Open a new MS Word window

2. What is the point from where you start writing known as?
3. Observe whether the text you are typing appears on left or right.
4. Enter the following text in MS Word:

5. Highlight the title of the story and give it a different font, size and color.

6. Selecting a word & text in a document

 Double Click To Select A Word

 Press & Hold The Ctrl Key And Click The Sentence You Want To Select
 Triple Click To Select A Paragraph
 Select Entire Text In All The Pages (Ctrl + A)
 To Select Any Part Of The Text, Place The Pointer On The First Word You
Want To Select And Drag The Pointer Over The Text You Want To Select.
7. FROM THE RIBBON, explore the following:
 Font Style
 Size
 Bold (CTRL + B)
 Italic (CTRL + I)
 Underline (CTRL + U)
 Font Color
 Highlight Color
 Increase Font Size
 Decrease Font Size
 Sentence Case
 Upper Case
 Lower Case
 Capitalize Each Word
 Toggle Case
 Bullets
 Change Alignments of Text (left, right, center, justify)

8. Deleting a text / Cut CTRL + X

9. Cut & Paste CTRL + X & CTRL + V
10. Copy & Paste CTRL + C & CTRL + V
11. Undo CTRL + Z
12. Save the file with your name, class and section CTRL + S
* Save it in a location. Open it by browsing.
13. Closing
14. Reopening
15. Exiting from Word
16. Opening a document
 PRATICAL 2
1. Open Word
2. Create a new document
3. Write 7 lines about our school.
4. Rainbow color pattern to lines
5. Change the font size of the lines in increasing order (like 8, 10, 12, 14…)
6. Change the font style
7. Give Bold, Italic & Underline effects to different lines.
8. Save the file with your name, class & section.

PRATICAL 3
Type “We are changing the font”.
• font Arial
• font style Italic
• size 10 point
• font colour blue
• underline style - a simple line
• underline colour green, and
• effects Small Cap
• right alignment
• indentation 1 inch for left as well as right
• first line indent 0.5 inch
• spacing as 6 point both before and after the paragraph
• line spacing 1.5 lines

PRATICAL 4
Design a Rakhi card using shapes in MS-Word

PRATICAL 5
Draw water cycle in Word using shapes
 PRATICAL 6
Adding pictures to MS-Word (Insert)
1. Draw a scene of Independence Day in MS-Paint
2. Add the picture to MS-Word and type few lines about it

PRATICAL 7
Adding table to MS-Word

PRATICAL 8

Open Word. Create a new document and type the following story

Two Goats
One day, two goats arrived at the same bridge. It was a narrow bridge. The wise one laid
down on the bridge. The other walked over him. They crossed the bridge comfortable and
went on their ways.

Now perform the following tasks:

1. Set the heading font size as 18 points and color red.
2. Make the heading bold and italic
3. Set the font size of rest of the text as 14 points and color blue
4. Save the document with your name
5. Write the moral of the story and align it at the center
 PRATICAL 9
DIRECTIONS:
1. Open a blank Word document.
2. Change to Arial style font, size 14. (Font style and size are located in the upper tool
bar.)
3. Type your name (first and last). Hit ENTER once.
4. Type Activity 1. Press ENTER key two times.
5. Type the name of your school in a different font and use size 18 point. Press
ENTER key two times.
6. Change the font to Times New Roman size 16.
7. Type the following paragraph. At the end of each paragraph, press the ENTER key
two times.

Master Yoda says that fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to
hate. Hate leads to suffering. Master Yoda is very smart.

Emperor Palpatine said that a Jedi gains power through understanding and a Sith
gains understanding through power.

8. Type your name once again. Underline it. Italicize it. Bold it.
9. Change the first paragraph to right alignment. (Alignment icons are to the right of
B I U series.) Hold your cursor on top of them to read which one is which.)
10. Change the second paragraph to justified alignment.
11. Center your name at the bottom using the centering alignment icon.
12. Make the school name Bold. (Use the B icon.).
13. Turn page over and proofread your assignment with the sample on the back. The
margins may be different so length of lines might vary.
14. Save as Activity 1. (FILE – SAVE AS. Click on the down arrow next to My
Documents. Click on your log in name. Type Activity 1 under File Name. Click
on Save.)
Default folder icons of Windows & their names
1. Which is the latest version of MS Word? - ___________________________

2. By default, Word aligns text to the _____________

3. What is the default name of the empty MS Word document when you start a
new document? - ____________________

4. What is the file extension of MS Word? _____________

5. Text always appears to the __________ of the insertion point as we type.

6. Which View of MS Word displays the document in the same way as we get it
after printing? - _________________________________

7. Write the name of the top most bar of the Word window - ______________

8. To Open a new document, ………. Press keys from the keyboard.

a) Ctrl + O
b) Ctrl + N
c) Ctrl + S
d) Ctrl + 5

9. There are two scroll bars in a word document ………. and ……… .
a) Horizontal, vertical
b) Left, Right
c) Upper Bar, Lower Bar
d) None of these

[Link] the ruler, the large area is called the ……..

 a) Text Area
b) Open Area
c) Close Area
d) All of these

[Link] + S used to ………

a) Save c) Open
b) New d) Close

[Link] the steps for copying or pasting items

_____________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________

Shortcut: _____________________________________________________

[Link] the short cuts for:

i. Opening a new file/ Creating a new document:

ii. Opening an existing file:

iii. Bold:
iv. Italic:
v. Underline:
vi. Deleting a text / Cut:
vii. Copy:
viii. Paste:
ix. Cut & Paste:
x. Copy & Paste:
xi. Select Entire Text (In All The Pages):
xii. Undo:
xiii. Saving a file:
14.___________________ is a Word processor created by Microsoft

15._____________ offers shortcut buttons for common tasks

[Link] default, the title of blank MS Word document is __________________

[Link] can see the backstage view in __________________

18._________________ is the topmost bar of the window

19.____________________ is used to enlarge or reduce the view of document

20.___________________ is a free online word processor

21._________________ is a free open source word processor part of LibreOffice

Suite

22.____________ tab provides a set of tools related to an overall task we perform

in a Word doc

23._____________________ is a small flashing line on the screen that shows

where the text we type will appear

[Link] provides _____ views of document

25.____________ is an example of a word processor

a. MS Paint b. MS Word c. Windows 10

26.____________ is a free open-source word processor

a. Word b. Writer c. Google Docs

27._________________ displays the name of currently active Word document

[Link] three views of document are: ________________________ ,

________________________ and _________________________
[Link] can see the save, undo and redo commands in _____________________

30.________________ helps to move the document up, down, left, right

31._____________ bar is situated at the bottom of a Word window

a. Scroll b. Title c. Status

[Link] can use double click to select a ______________

a. Paragraph b. word c. line

33._________________ text in a document is useful for marking information

a. Formatting b. highlighting c. selecting

34.______________________ is a free online word processor

35.____________________ shows us the word count, page number, language of

the document, etc

36._______________________________ help us to minimize, maximize, restore

and close the window

37. Some important commands in File tab are ________ , ________, ________

38.___________ tab is used for editing and formatting text

[Link] are ____ scroll bars: ___________________ and ________________

scroll bar

40._______________ scroll bar shifts the document left and right

41._______________ scroll bar shifts the document up and down

42.___________________ is situated at the bottom side of a Word window

43.A ___________ is a typeface that defines the shape of each character.

[Link] default, Word aligns text to the ____________

[Link] file is saved with ___________ extension.

46._________________ displays the name of the currently active Word document

[Link] Ribbon displays group of related _______________ in tabs

[Link] processor has replaced the electronic typewriter in most offices, as the
document can be _________________ , ________________ and
__________________ with ease.

[Link] type text of our document in the _____________________

50.________________________________________ helps us to find or locate

commands on the Ribbon

[Link] have to press ________________ keys to move to the next page.

[Link] and Close are the options of the _______________________

[Link] text in a paragraph is by default ________________ aligned.

[Link] ________________ is a blinking vertical line in the workspace area.

55._______________ scroll bar is used to shift on-screen display up or down

56.________________ is a temporary name given to the blank document.

[Link] press _________ key to go to the next line

58.____________ is the extension name, which MS Word automatically gives to

the document name while saving it.

[Link] Word is a _______________ based word processing software.

60. Write True or False
a. MS Word is a word processing program used for creating a document
b. Work area is where we enter or type the text
c. To select a paragraph, we have to click two times over it
d. Formatting means making any changes to the document
e. Word 2019 is saved in .txt file extension
f. We can easily correct spelling mistakes in MS Word
[Link] click ____ times to select a word

[Link] control buttons are located in ____________ bar

[Link] use _________ key to select a line

[Link] click ____ times to select a paragraph

[Link] can d click a word to select it

66.____________________ means making changes to the text to make it look

attractive

[Link] can select a word by clicking ___ times on it

[Link] key helps us in selecting a ___________

[Link] can select a paragraph by clicking ____ times on it.

70.__________ is a typeface that determines shape of each character

71.___________ makes the text darker

72.___________ makes the text slanted

73._________________ adds a line under the text

[Link] is a Word Processor?
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________

75. What do you mean by formatting text?

_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________

[Link] do we increase and decrease the text size in Word?

_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________

[Link] is the use of saving document?

_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
[Link] do we change the font of a text?
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________

[Link] is the software used for creating document called?

___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

80.A free online word processor: ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

[Link] do we select a paragraph:

_____________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________

[Link] do we insert a new line: _____________________________________

83.A part of LibreOffice suite: ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

[Link] topmost bar of window: ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

[Link] group of related commands in tab: ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

[Link] move the document up, down, left, right: __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

87.A place where you type the text of your document: __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

[Link] is the most popular word processor: __________________________

[Link] types of word processors: ________________________________

[Link] do we increase or decrease the text size in Word?

a. We increase the size of the text to ______________________________

__________________________________________________________

b. We decrease the size of the text to ______________________________

__________________________________________________________

[Link] any four uses of MS Word

a. ___________________________________________________________

b. ___________________________________________________________

c. ___________________________________________________________

d. ___________________________________________________________

92. Given here is an image of options available in the Clipboard group of Home tab.
Which of the following tasks is NOT possible with the help of these options?

A) Removing a line of text.

B) Copying a line of text
C) Repeating the last operation
D) Pasting a copied part
93. Ruchi performed the following steps in a document.

[a] Typed desktop

[b] Pressed key

[c] Pressed key

What would be displayed?

A) desktoy
B) desktoY
C) deskto
D) deskop

94. I am seen in the MS-Word application window when a document is open. I measure
the width of the document, display margin settings, tab settings and indentation.

A) Title bar
B) File tab
C) Ruler
D) Working area
95. Which of the following keyboard shortcuts when pressed, will display the “Open”
dialog box?

A)

B)

C)

D)

96. To paste the copied text four times in a document ___________.

A) Press keys and then press on Numpad

B) Press keys and then press on Numpad

C) Press keys four times

D) Press keys four times

97. I have created a file and now I am saving it with the name Water_Use. What would be
its complete name after saving?

A) Water_Use
B) Water_Use.docx
C) Water_ [Link]
D) Water_Use.wrt
98. For printing a Word document, click on the _________.
A) Page Layout tab on the Ribbon and click

B) in Clipboard group
C) File tab, to go to Backstage view and then select Print command
D) View tab of the Ribbon

99. If you make a mistake when creating or editing a Word document, you can roll back
to your previous work by using _______.

A)

B)

C)

D)

100. What would be displayed when you select first-three letters of the word Active and

then click an and then on button?

A) Act
B) ive
C) ACTive
D) ActIVE

101. Given below is the title bar of an MS-Word document. It displays the
__________of the active document.

A) Area B) Color
C) Height D) Name

Match the operations given in Column-1 with the key combinations Column-2
 Column -1 Column-2

(a) Save a file

+

(b) Print a document

+

(c) Undo the last operation

+

(d) Copy selected text to clipboard

+

Write the names of icons and their shortcut keys: