Microsoft Office Word 2002 and the writing process

Step-by-step instructions, glossaries, tips, annotated illustrations, and pedagogical suggestions help you map key Word 2002 features to the critical pieces of the writing process.

The accompanying instructor presentation offers a guide to the tutorial, suitable for use by an instructor leading a class or for self-paced learning.

Begin a new writing project with Microsoft Office Word.

Use the document map and outline view to help you organize your work into logical sections.

Use Office Word as a collaborative, process-oriented writing tool.

Save your document as a Web page, and use the Web Discussions feature for conversations to develop the topic.

Add comments to a document, keep track of changes, and save evolving versions of your work.

How Word 2002 can help
Throughout the writing process—prewriting, composition, revision, and publication—Word 2002 provides flexible support for the different ways of composing.

Before you begin
See an introduction to the tutorial and what you will learn.

Touring Word 2002
Become familiar with how to access the features of Word and where they appear on your screen.

Creating a document
Learn about beginning a new writing assignment, and formatting a document for impact and readability.

Using Views
Easily organize topics for development, and navigate through the entire document with the Outline View and Document Map.

Using version control
Work with the Versions feature to learn how to save earlier forms of a document as it goes through the draft, feedback, and revision process.

Using comments
Peer- and faculty-reviewers can conveniently annotate a text right in the document. Multiple sets of comments are color-coded to help the author and other reviewers keep track of this in-document discussion.

Enhancing collaboration
A process-oriented approach to writing is also a people-oriented approach. Sending documents to Public Folders and saving as Web pages help manage the collaborative process efficiently.

Using Web discussions
Publish a draft as Web pages, and use Inline Discussions to collect the input of your reviewers from any location. The Message window pane creates a virtual gathering for the online discussion.

Using round-tripping
From your Web page discussion format document, round-trip your paper back into its original Word format for easy editing and publishing.

Getting help
Additional information about Office Word 2002 is available from several sources. Get answers to questions, product support online, and news about product updates.