I'll take this one and break it down w/ some extra goodies... having been a self-taught computer nerd... (and I mean nerd, not geek, major difference!... geeks are 100% accurate, and computer nerds learn by breaking a bunch of computers before they get good lol)
I kept a box of index cards at my terminal for a while until I became familiar w/ everything. You'd be amazed at what you think you WOULD need (but would normally just jot down once and toss out w/ the garbage, like a log-in to a site, an error message you'd get & report or research, etc), or think you WOULDN'T need... but really would... like keystrokes, those cool "cent," "yen," or Japanese currency symbols (ASCII), etc. I'd start there. Familiarity will come w/ time. I don't want to seem remedial, but the more detailed responses usually help lots of those who read them. As for your questions,
10.) CTRL + C = Copy (leaving everything behind too)
CTRL + V = Paste (in the new, desired area)
*CTRL + X = Cut (take away, bring it with you,) + CTRL + V, or paste, puts it there. Good to know, especially w/ Excel. (my favorite playground for the CTRL commands.)
9.) Fancy fingerwork here, but if you, for example, double click in one place (without moving the cursor, notice your word (use "the" for example,) would be highlight if you just double-clicked in-place. Double-click again. Voila, the entire paragraph is highlighted.
8.) Print preview, a.) lets you know that your text won't bleed over into the next page (which means twice the amount of paper, half of which will only have 2 or 3 letters per line), b.) lets you refine your proofreading skills, c.) familiarizes one with the system they're working on better and d.) allows for additional options, such as in excel, you can toggle with much more ease since you're looking at an entire page or document in one screen (without scrolling up & down. it's like an aerial view down at the city when your plane takes off... you suddenly have better ideas on how the city could be set-up.
7.) This is somewhat of a loaded question, but if I understand it correctly, this is essentially accomplishable from anywhere. Create an MS Powerpoint Slideshow, like "The Steps of Opening a Can of Dogfood," then go to "File" / "Save As" / (name document at this point, making sure it has the correct file extension, which it should auto-suggest) / ***and HERE, you select "Create New Folder!"
At this point, your slideshow on dog-feeding will be in a brand new folder that you created out of an MS Office program. Rinse & repeat as desired.
6.) 255 characters; a file name is comprised of the path as well, i.e. c:\documents and settings\inspectorgadget\my documents\dogfood
5.) "Save As" allows for customized names, which is the preferred method for newly-created documents. "Save," a commonly "preferred" method with MSO users, is mainly for updating existing files, like ledgers, reports, or after opening a report &proofreading it, & using "Save" to update the additions/changes. However, with a new document, using "Save" will recognize it's new and prompt the user to the [save as] screen, which requests your new file name.
4.) Your function keys, in this case F1, retrieves your Office Assistant... it's considered the same as "Help," button. It's a trick question because you have to have the Office Assistant turned on first. You also have to enable a box (by checking it off) called "Respond to F1 Key." (The ESC/Escape key closes the message or reminder from the Office Assistant.)
3.) This sounds like you're referring to Excel 2000. That's what immediately pops into my head at least. There's a meny called Tools. From there, select CUSTOMIZE, and you'll be prompted to a dialogue box. Excel is, in my opinion, the best product ever, that's why I reference it in my examples. Look at all those tabs! Too much fun stuff to toggle with. Anyhoot, yes, the dialogue box is for switching-up your menus and modifying commands/options that you don't want to be displayed. Drag & Drop method is do-able.
2.) Outlook, Word, Project, Publisher, Acess, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Front Page, and if memory serves, that's all of them. I almsot forgot about Project.
1.) This is a fun one! For Access, as an example, CTRL+W closes (as a keystroke alternative), or you could even go to the File menu, the select Close, as the classic method, as opposed to clicking the "X" button. There's the "hard exit," should your system fail, which is CTRL+ALT+DEL, in that particular order, or at the same time, depending on your particular computer, which will draw-up your Task Manager, at which point you'd want to "End" the application in the event it's locked-up or not responding/frozen. Should this be the case, do NOT click, attempt to bypass the frozen screen by clicking on other windows... this simply builds-up a list of "to-do's," so to speak, for your computer, adding to the problem, potentially leading up to a BSOD, or "Blue Screen of Death," if your computer is particularly antiquated.
I think the main answer you're looking for, though is the CTRL+W / File-Close type of thing. I always tend to go to the next level. :)
Regards,
Erik / Unrest.