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Chapter 1: The Two-Dollar Tour
Create a Document
In Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, a new document (or workbook, or
presentation) opens automatically when you start the program. You
can just start typing or inserting content into it.
You can also create additional new documents. An easy shortcut to do so
is to press Ctrl+N. You can also choose Office➪New. That latter method
has the advantage of opening up a dialog box where you can choose a
template, if you don’t want a totally blank document to start with.
Type Text
Putting text on the page (or onscreen) is a little different in each of the
three major Office applications: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
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Word: The main work area of the program is a blank
slate on which you can type directly. Just click in the
work area and start typing! Chapter 2 explains more
about typing and editing text. See Figure 1-7.
In Word, there is a single work area
Figure 1-7
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Excel: The work area is divided into a grid of cells.
Click any cell to make it active, and type to place text
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