 So hopefully by now you've since you're in college have written a paper or you started to write papers And if you haven't well, you're gonna you know, you've got English class. You've got history. You've got biology psychology Journalism even in my programming classes. There's a few times where I have students do write-ups And one of the things that we need when we're doing a write-up is some type of software to do Word processing that's the magical word there word processing now We don't typically use something like notepad notepad works. It's a great for taking notes But one of the things that we prefer to have is this ability to sort of format our document So it actually has kind of a little bit more. I wouldn't say pizzazz, but it has a way about it that just kind of works Better than something like notepad plus plus now word processing application that sounds like a big fancy word But really all that means is it's a type of software, you know If we think about all the different types of software on our computers, you know One of the things that we all use every day is something called a web browser Well, that is a type of software Another type is word application word processing. They do different things. They have interactions They work slightly differently. And so the one that we focus in on at Cape Fear Community College in CIS 110 is the wonderful wonderful CIS Microsoft Word It's a great program and you've probably again gotten a little familiar with it if you've ever written a paper in the past 20 years Because everyone uses word is kind of universal even people who graduate out of here, you know, just because you think that it's Microsoft Word you got to learn for college and you still need it And one of the things that we need to do is we need to at least even look at the idea of how to kind of Open it up. You know, I can't just double click on a file and it be there You know again, you see I've got nothing on my desktop that looks like a word file I've got an Excel file, which we'll deal with later, but I don't have any word files So what do I do? so We've got our little start menu icon here and if you're on a Windows 8 machine you've still technically if you got the 8.1 they've upgraded it to it, but We have this start menu icon here when we click on it It gives us a slew of options and one of those is you can see mine's already in there, but guess what? Now it's not. Oh my goodness. What am I gonna do? Ah? Well, one of the things we can do is you can take a look down here at this guy this search programs and files And if I simply just type Word Look what pops up right there first item now. What happens if I don't like to type You know, I'm a lazy person my keyboards all the way over here Oh, I can't I can't reach the keyboard from all the way over here. I'm serious guys. What do I do? What do I do? Well, that's where all programs comes into effect all programs this guy I click on that. This is gonna give me every single one of the Applications that I have available on my computer like Gimp for when I'm doing graphics for you guys or Firefox Sublime text for my programming courses But if I scroll down, you'll see that we have something called Microsoft Office 2013. I click on this Look what I get. I get an entire slew of the entire Microsoft Office suite all of the different application software pack of all the application Softwares that come with the Microsoft Office suite and if I want I just click on Microsoft Word And there it is. Let me do that again since it popped up on my other screen I'll even do it with the typing version Microsoft Word. I can click on Word 2013 and Boom this pulls up a blank document that I can start to type here on Now here's a little fun trick for anyone who's actually paying attention to these videos and not already exited out Here's a little kind of Easter egg for you. If you let me even zoom in for you a little bit on this We'll learn all about zooming in a little bit later, but if I come in here and I type in the equal sign L O R E M Lorm parentheses Now it seems weird Oh magic trick so Lorm actually Produces what's known as the Lorm ipsum, which is just a bunch of fake text This is actually not real text at all, but it looks Latin and this is actually something that programmers and developers use to sort of add content to a page or a Computer program when there isn't any done yet. So guess what you just learned something new every day Go ahead and try that on your own computer