Topic 35: Discover What you Can do with the Word Status Bar?

[seema]

The Word 2007 status bar is the area at the bottom of the Word window that gives information and some controls on the current document. It displays information about what page you are on, line number on the page, total words in the document, etc.

It also shows some other information about which editing toggles you have turned on or you can turn it off if you don't need the information provided shows on the status bar.

Right-clicking the status bar produces the helpful Customize Status Bar menu.

The Customize Status Bar menu does two things:

it controls what you see on the status bar, informational tidbits as well as certain controls. it lets you turn on or off some Word features.

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[seema]

To control the display on the Customize status bar menu

The menu's options are enabled (selected) when a check mark appears next to them. The items at the top of the menu (from Formatted Page Number to Word Count) display information about your document. The options from Caps Lock down through Macro Recording are Used to turn off or on those features. The last three options on the menu control whether the View or Zoom shortcuts appear on the status bar. Note: You can try to check or select the available options in the Customize Status Bar and see the changes to your documents.