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This is the beginner's guide to using Microsoft Word and specifically using it to create documents like reports, essays, handouts, flyers, things like that. And so I'm just gonna go down here and click on Microsoft Word. If you don't have Word down here on the taskbar, you can just click here on Search Windows and do a search for Microsoft Word to see if it's on your computer. If that doesn't turn up anything, then it's not installed on your computer, but like I said, I'm gonna go ahead and click on that to start it up and Microsoft Word opens right up and it gives me right away a bunch of templates that I can choose from to help me get started creating documents using Microsoft Word. And you can see that there's all sorts of great documents. They have trifold brochures they have event menus. They have blog posts, all sorts of different templates that you can use. Also across the top, notice that you can filter them by category, so I could just show Business templates. I could show Event templates, labels and so on. And notice that there is an Education category. You can also search for online templates here. So templates can be a great time-saver. You can just select one of these templates to open it up and then edit it and use it for your own purposes. But, in this tutorial, we're going to focus just on creating starting from scratch. And so I'm gonna click here where it says Blank document and it opens up the Microsoft Word layout and a blank document. Now there is so much to Word. Most people don't really use Word to its full capabilities but in this tutorial I'm really going to focus on the basics, on those essentials that you need to know to start using Microsoft Word effectively. And one of the first things I'm going to do is just close this panel here at the left that says Navigation. It's a nice panel, but I'm going to get rid of that and close that out. Next, I want to give you a quick tour of what you're seeing here in the layout. You'll notice that, across the top, we have tabs. We have the Home tab, insert tab, design tab. and This is very similar to Excel Microsoft Excel and also Microsoft PowerPoint. If you've watched my other tutorials, you already know about this Microsoft office layout, but for those who maybe haven't watched those other tutorials just a quick intro each of these tabs. When you click on it will give you a different ribbon and that's what they call this this is the ribbon. And the ribbon changes based on the tab that you click. Ok, so if I want to change something about the layout, I click on layout and then I look at the layout ribbon and see what I can do. Now each ribbon is divided up...