Home tab includes five subsections named at the bottom of each section.

These include: Clipboard, Font, Paragraph, Styles and Editing.

Clipboard allows you to keep text separately on the clipboard. It also allows you to cut, copy and paste and format paint (this allows you to copy a format from one section of a document to another section).

Font allows you to choose the typeface, to highlight in a color, to change the color of the text, to clear the formatting, to B - Bold the text, I - Italicize the text, to Underline the text and to change the size of the font, change the case of the font, and create subscripts (tiny letters either above or below a letter).

Paragraph allows you to create bullets, number lines, center the text, flush the text left or right, space the text evenly across the page and change the spacing between the lines. If you click on the paint can icon you can shade the area behind the text or paragraph. You can also increase or decrease the indent level of the paragraph, put your information in alphabetical order or sort numerical data.  The icon that looks like a four pane window lets you create a bottom border. The paragraph icon in the upper right hand corner of the paragraph section allows you to either show or hide formatting symbols.

Styles section allows you to decide if you want normal paragraph spacing or no spaces between paragraphs. It also has default settings for two styles of headings, a style for the title of a document, a style for the subtitle and one style to show subtle emphasis. If you click on the tiny arrow pointing down and to the right there will be several more options to choose from. If you run your mouse over these Styles the text in your document will automatically change.

Editing has a Find binocular icon that allows you to search for specific text within the document. Simply click on Find and the Navigation box will appear where you can type your search item. Replace allows you to find specific words and replace them with alternative words. This is handy of you have spelled a name wrong and want to find all of those incorrect spellings and replace them with the correct spelling of the name. Select allows you to select text in different ways. For example, you can select all of the text or you can select all the text that is formatted in the same way and change that formatting.

Check out this free online tutorial!