Editing Tools in MS Office Word 

Many editing functions are performed on selected text, such as cut, copy, move, and delete. There are various editing tools provided by Microsoft Office Word to help you edit text:

Cut, Copy: Cutting and copying items places them on the Clipboard and you can paste these items anywhere in the document, wherever required. These items can be text, graphics, tables and any other object which is there in the word document. Cut and Copy can be performed using mouse and key strokes.

Paste: It is the command used to paste whatever is available on the Clipboard to paste it in the document. This is also done by the use of mouse and key strokes.

Move: It is an action associated with the mouse. However, if you cut and paste from one place to another, it can also be called move.

Insert Mode:   It is the feature that adjusts spacing when you add new text to the document.

Overtype Mode:  This option replaces the existing text with your new text.

Delete: It is an action you should reserve for text you want to permanently remove. Deleted text is not placed in the Clipboard. You can delete text with either mouse or key strokes.

Undo and Redo:   Using these commands you can reverse the tasks performed earlier.

All these commands are available on the toolbar in the Home menu.

For either cutting or copying, you have to highlight the part of the text on which you want to perform this operation. All these commands have their keyboard strokes associated with them too. Let us now learn few options of Word 2007 which help us in correcting our document with minimum efforts.

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