Introduction | Getting Started | Standard Toolbar | Properties Bar | More Formatting | Other WordPerfect Features

Formatting Text/Paragraphs Using Toolbars:
In a word processing program such as WordPerfect, there are many options available for presenting your text. This part of the tutorial will guide you through several of the important features in WordPerfect that will allow you to edit, modify, and display text (and non-text) components.

The Standard Toolbar ("WordPerfect9" Toolbar):

1. New Blank Document: To begin a new document, click on the New Blank Document icon, shaped like a blank sheet of paper.
2. Open: Clicking on this icon opens up a previously saved document on your computer.
3. Save: Clicking on the Save icon saves the document you are currently working on. If you are saving a document for the first time, you can click on this button. However, if you want to save a new file from a preexisting document, then you must go to the menu bar and select File >> Save As, and give the file a new name. When working on any document, you should be sure to save frequently, so that you don't lose any work.
4. Print: Clicking on the Print icon automatically prints the document currently active in WordPerfect. If you wish to explore more print options, then go to the menu bar and select File >> Print.
5. Cut: When you make a selection of text with your cursor, click on the Cut button to remove the text from the document and add it to the Clipboard. The Clipboard is a temporary area that stores data that the user copies for short term use.
6. Copy: When you make a selection of text with your cursor, click on the Copy button to copy the selection from the document to the Clipboard. Using the Copy tool doesn't delete text from your document, but simply stores it in the Clipboard for you to "paste" elsewhere.
7. Paste: Clicking on the Paste button inserts the text that has been most recently added to the Clipboard (the text would have been added there by Cutting or Copying). With Paste, you can either insert the copied text into a document or replace selected text.
8. Undo Typing: The Undo Typing button goes back and removes the last addition or change made to your document.
9. Redo Typing: Clicking on the Redo Typing button repeats the most recent change or addition made to your document.
10. Quick Format: Pickup and apply formatting.
11. Draw Picture: WordPerfect allows you to draw basic images that you can include in your document.
12. Clipart: Browse WordPerfect's scrapbook to choose an image to put into your document.
13. Draw Combined Shapes: WordPerfect offers some basic geometric shapes that you can draw into your document.
14. Text Box: Create a text box that you can insert text into, and move anywhere around on the page, without losing the formatting of the text inside the box. It is useful for combining text and images together on a single page.
15. Highlight: A virtual highlighter that you can use to "highlight" certain areas of text for quick viewing access. Useful for navigating long documents.
16. Numbering / Bullets: Create numbered or bulleted lists of items.
17. Columns: Text in a document can be formatted and separated into different columns by clicking on the Columns icon. You can choose to have one to four columns. To divide specific text into columns, use the cursor to select the desired text, and then choose the number of columns to be used.
18. Tables: When this icon is clicked, a small window will appear in the form of a grid of squares. Use this window as a guide to indicate how many rows and columns you would like your table to contain. Once selected, a table will automatically appear in WordPerfect.
19. Spell Check: Clicking the Spell Check icon begins a review of your document in search of spelling and grammatical errors that may need to be corrected.
20. Zoom: "Zooming In" on a document gives you an up-close view. This can be helpful if the text in its original state at 100% is hard to read. With Zoom In, you can magnify the text without modifying the document. "Zooming Out" reduces the page view so that you can see more of the page at once.
21. Change View: Toggle between viewing your document as a traditional word processing document, or an HTML document (to be edited for the web).
22. PerfectExpert: This button brings up a side-menu to the left which acts as a wizard to help set up different formatting aspects of your document.
23. Corel Web Site: This is a hotlink directly to the manufacturer's website.
24. Autoscroll: This toggles the autoscrolling of WordPerfect. When turned on, the moving of the cursor towards the bottom of the screen will scroll the document down, and vice versa.
25. Back & Forward: Moves the insertion point back and forth in the document.

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