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Inserting new text

Inserting new text - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Inserting new text

In most cases, the majority of content you're going to find in any document you might create with a word processing program like Microsoft Word is going to be text. So, let's go through some basic text editing now, for those of you who've actually never used a program like Word. We have a document called Style Guide1 open; it's in your Chapter2 folder of your Exercise Files, and we do have some text here already on this first page, where we can see a three line title. Let's say we wanted to insert some content. Well, it's very simple, and very basic; you click, and type, and if there is existing text there already, it gets pushed aside. There was a day when we had to worry about insert versus type over, but now we just click, let's say, in front of the S in Style, and start typing, we'll type in Branding and, and leave a space. Everything gets pushed aside, it happens to be center alignment, so all of that stays intact, existing text is pushed to the left and right, so everything…

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