After Home comes the Insert tab.

Insert is self-explanatory in that it allows you to insert all sorts of things into your document.

Pages includes a Cover Page option which provides a selection of different style cover pages for you to choose from. Blank Page just adds a blank page to your document. Page Break starts the next page when you click on it at any location in your document.

Table allows you to draw tables, but if you click on the down arrow it also provides a way to insert Excel documents. Quick Tables provides several stock tables such as calendars for you to choose from.  

Illustrations includes a way to insert Pictures, Clip Art, Shapes, SmartArt, Charts and Screenshots. Click on Pictures and you will find yourself in the Picture Library of your computer where you can browse and find a picture of your choice. Clip Art includes stock photography, movies, sounds and drawings. Click on Shapes and you will find block arrows, standard shapes, stars and banners, equation shapes and more. SmartArt includes picture frames, pyramids, graphic lists, Venn diagrams, etc. Charts include column, pie, bar charts and more. Screenshot allows you to insert an image of the screen into your document.

Links includes Hyperlink, Bookmark and Cross-Reference. Hyperlink allows you to connect your document to a URL on the internet so when you click on that link you are brought to that website.

Header & Footer gives you the ability to create and edit header and footers in a document and to create and format Page Numbers.

Text allows you to insert Text Boxes, Word Art (three dimensional letters, hollow letters, rainbow letters and more adding extra emphasis to your text).  Signature Line creates a line with an “x” next to it for a person to sign their name. This is handy if you need to create a legal document where you might need a signature. Drop Cap adds a huge first letter to a sentence and Object allows you to add an Adobe Acrobat Document into your document.

Symbols include mathematical equations and other symbols.

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