Let us discuss the important components of the screen.
Title Bar The title bar displays the name of the currently active word document. Like other WINDOWS applications, it can be used to alter the size and location of the word window.
Tool Bars Word has a number of tool bars that help you perform task faster and with great ease. Two of the most commonly tool bars are the formatting tool bar and the standard tool bar. These two toolbars are displayed just below the title bar. At any point of time any tool bar can be made ON or OFF through the tool bar option of View Menu.
Ruler Bar The Ruler Bar allows you to format the vertical alignment of text in a document.
Status Bar The Status Bar displays information about the currently active document. This includes the page number that you are working, the column and line number of the cursor position and so on.
Scroll Bar The Scroll Bar helps you scroll the content or body of document. You can do so by moving the elevator button along the scroll bar, or by click in on the buttons with the arrow marked on them to move up and down and left and right of a page.
Workspace The Workspace is the area in the document window were you enter/type the text of your document.
Main Menu The Word main menu is displayed at the top of the screen as shown in the Fig. 9.1. The main menu further displays a sub menu. Some of the options are highlighted options and some of them appear as faded options. At any time, only highlighted options can be executed, faded options are not applicable. Infect if the option is faded you will not be able to choose it. You may not that any option faded under present situation may become highlighted under different situations.
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