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Chapter 1: Hello, Word!
✓ Supposedly, every program ever installed on your computer has
installed its icon in a spot somewhere on the All Programs menu.
✓ I refer to the program as Word, though its icon may be labeled Microsoft
Word, Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Word 2010, or another variation.
The better way to start Word
When you use Word a lot, it helps to have quick access to its program icon;
opening that icon is the way you start Word and then start your work. A
better way than keeping Word hidden on the All Programs menu is to create
a Word shortcut icon on the desktop. Heed these steps:
1. Locate the Word icon on the Start button’s All Programs menu.
Don’t start Word now! Just point the mouse at the Word icon on the
Start button’s All Programs menu or wherever else it may be found.
(Refer to the preceding section.)
2. Right-click the Microsoft Word 2010 menu item.
A pop-up menu appears.
3. Choose Send To➪Desktop (Create Shortcut).
4. Press the Esc key to hide the Start button menu and view the desktop.
You haven’t changed anything, but you have added the Word program icon
to the desktop (shown in the margin). You can use that icon to start Word:
Just double-click the icon and Word starts.
The best way to start Word
The best way to start Word, and the way I do it every day, is to place the
Word icon on the taskbar in Windows 7, or what’s called the Quick Launch
toolbar in older versions of Windows. To do so, follow these steps:
1. Find the Word icon on the Start button’s All Programs menu.
Don’t click the icon — just find it!
2. Right-click the Word icon on the All Programs menu.
3a. In Windows 7, choose the command Pin to Taskbar.
3b. In Windows Vista, choose the command Add to Quick Launch.
The Word icon is pinned (permanently added to) the taskbar in
Windows 7; in Windows Vista, the Word icon is slapped on the Quick
Launch Toolbar.
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