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2. Right-click the Microsoft Word menu item.
A pop-up menu appears.
3. Choose Send To➪Desktop (Create Shortcut).
Whew! The scary part is over. You haven’t changed anything, but you
have added a new icon to the desktop, an icon you can use to start
Word, if you like. To prove it:
4. Click the mouse on the desktop.
The desktop is the background you see when you use Windows. Clicking
the desktop hides the Start menu.
5. Locate the Microsoft Word shortcut icon.
It looks like the icon shown in the margin. That’s your shortcut to Word.
You can now use that icon to start Word: Just double-click, and you “open”
the program. Then you can start clack-clack-clacking away at the keyboard.
That’s faster than using the All Programs menu.
The
best way to start Word, and the way I do it every day, is to place the Word
icon on the Quick Launch Toolbar.
The
Quick Launch Toolbar, found right next to the Start button on the taskbar,
is a row of icons representing programs, which you can start with a single click
of the mouse. And, unlike the desktop, the Quick Launch bar is always handy.
To put the Word icon on the Quick Launch bar, you need to drag and drop, so
it helps to have a Word icon already on the desktop, as described in the pre-
ceding set of steps. From the desktop, use the mouse to drag the Word icon
to the Quick Launch bar, and then release the mouse button to “drop” the
icon, as shown in Figure 1-1.
Starting Word from the Quick Launch bar is the best way to go: Just point the
mouse at the Word icon and click, and Word is summoned to the screen.
 The Quick Launch Toolbar may not be visible on your computer. Refer
to my book
PCs For Dummies for more information or if the Quick
Launch bar is too narrow and you cannot see the Word icon.
 Another way to have the Word icon always handy is to pin it to the Start
menu directly. In Step 3 (a few paragraphs back), choose the item named
Pin to Start Menu.
 Making these multiple copies of the Word icon does not consume extra
hard drive space. You’re merely copying
shortcuts to the Word program,
not copies of the entire program itself.
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