| Lesson 7: Learn
about how to effectively use the Thesaurus Tool in Word |
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| Main objectives
of this lesson:
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| Lesson 7:
Thesaurus Tool |
| Objective
# 1 |
Thesaurus Window |
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| You can access
the Thesaurus by using the keyboard shortcut
Shift-F7 while the insertion point is directly after
the word you would like to look up. |
| You can also access the Thesaurus
through the Tools Menu under the Language tab. |
| The screen to the
left shows what the Thesaurus window looks like.
The word "present" has been looked up. |
| Notice the various meanings in the
left part of the window. The synonyms for the
current meaning selected are displayed to the right. |
| You can look up
any word you find in the "meanings" area of the
window by selecting the word and clicking the "Look
Up" button |
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| Objective
# 2 |
Looking Up New Words |
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| After looking up
the word "current" the window now looks like the one
to the left. |
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| New synonyms
appear for the current meaning that is selected. |
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| You can always go
back to the previous word that was looked up by
clicking the "Previous" button. |
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| Objective
# 3 |
Antonyms |
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| You can also find
antonyms for the selected meanings. |
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| While the word
"present" was selected, the word "dated" was
selected to the right. Dated is an antonym of
present. After double-clicking the word
"dated" the window to the left appears. |
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| Notice how the
antonyms appear in the meanings box. You can
select any word that you feel is adequate by
selecting the word in the synonyms box and clicking
the "Replace" button. |
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Lesson Review |
In this lesson we covered the following the Thesaurus
Tool. You learned how to do this so that you can
find synonyms and antonyms to words in your document.
- Accessing and recognizing the Thesaurus window
- Looking up new words
- Antonyms
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lesson #8 |
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