The Microsoft Word ® Insert Menu - How to insert objects, comments, symbols and more

This tutorial explains the various commands accessible via the Insert Menu in Microsoft Word ®.

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The Insert Menu in Microsoft Word

The Insert Menu is the fourth menu in our using Microsoft Word tutorial.

Break: This command opens the Break dialogue box, allowing you to insert page breaks and section breaks into the current document.

Page Numbers: Clicking on Page Numbers will open a dialogue box, which allows you to insert page numbers into the document using various options.

Date and Time: This command will open the Date and Time dialogue box. You can choose from many different date and time formats, you may also have different languages to choose from.

Autotext: Choosing this option will open the Microsoft Word Autotext dialogue box. We will cover Autotext in a future tutorial.

Field: This command allows you to enter specified fields into your document. The available fields include Date & Time, Document Automation, Document Information, Equations and Formulas, Index and Tables, Links and References, Mail Merge, Numbering and User Information.

Symbol: This allows you to insert symbols and special characters into your document. For example, if you wanted to include a copyright symbol or a trademark symbol, then you would use this feature. Other symbols (special characters) include currency symbols, mathematical symbols and foreign language alphabet characters.

Comment: This command will place a comment into the document at the location of the cursor. You will be able to type your comment into the comment box, once done, simply click anywhere outside of the comment box.

Reference: The Reference command will allow you to insert a footnote, caption, cross-reference, index, and tables.

Web Component: This command is used to insert any web components into your Microsoft Word document.

Picture: Allows you to insert a picture into your document. You will be offered various locations to locate the image, including clip art, the file system on your computer, and a digital camera or scanner.

Diagram: The Diagram command will open the diagram gallery dialogue box. You can choose from a selection of diagrams to insert into your document, including an organization chart, cycle diagram, radial diagram, pyramid diagram, venn diagram and a target diagram. You may have less or more diagrams available to insert, depending on your Microsoft Word installation.

Text Box: This allows you to insert text boxes, we will be covering text boxes in a future tutorial.

File: Enables you to insert part or all of a file into the current document.

Object: This command will insert an object of your choice, including media clips, Microsoft Excel charts and worksheets, Microsoft Powerpoint slides and presentations.

Bookmark: This handy feature allows you to bookmark a certain element (text, image,etc). You can name the bookmark and then return to it at any time by using the goto command in the edit menu.

Hyperlink: The Insert Hyperlink dialogue box allows you to add a hyperlink to an existing file, web page, certain place in the current document, a new document, or an email address.

see also: File Menu - Edit menu - View menu - Format menu - Tools menu - Table menu