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This project presented many ways to change the look and the contents of a document. You learned ways to select a word, a paragraph, a line, and more. You added, deleted, moved, and modified text. You worked with tab stops, columns, margins, and indents. With Find and Replace you hunted for specific text. You used AutoFormat to apply a template to a whole document. You used a template to create a letter and made changes to the results. You used WordArt, a text box, and the Drawing Tools to create a company logo. You created a template yourself. With all these skills, you are ready to create and modify documents of all types.


What you printed for Word Project 2: Auto Tools

Document # of Pages Section

1. trip planner2.doc

2

Move Text

2. trip planner13.doc

4

Final Edit and Print

3. letter6-Lastname-Firstname.docx

1

Text Boxes

4. letter6-revised-Lastname-Firstname.docx

1

Text Boxes

5. letter-AAAtemplate-Lastname-Firstname.docx

1

Save as Template

 


Skills Covered - by lesson

Add Text

  • Set up the Status bar display
  • Add a paragraph
  • Insert text
  • What Overtyping does
  • Toggle Overtyping on and off

Delete Text

  • Select a paragraph
  • Select a word
  • Select a phrase
  • Delete a selection
  • Restore a deletion with Undo

Modify Text

  • Replace selection by typing
  • Find and replace text

Move Text

  • Move selected text by drag and drop
  • Move selected text by cut and paste
  • Create a 3-section header and a footer
  • Insert Date/Time
  • Insert a field
  • Check for spelling and grammar errors

AutoFormat Document

  • What kind of formatting and paragraph styles to apply before applying AutoFormat to a whole document
  • Apply AutoFormat to the whole document

Themes

  • Apply a document theme
  • Insert, size, and position an AutoShape
  • Insert text from a file
  • Apply themes for color, fonts, and effects
  • Save changes as a custom theme

Style Set

  • Apply a different style set
  • Make changes to styles
  • Save changes to styles
  • Save revised styles as a new style set

Page Breaks

  • Insert page breaks with key combo and 2 buttons
  • Add titles for pages

Copy and Position Image

  • Apply a Shape style
  • Copy and paste image to new location
  • Adjust image position with-
    • dragging
    • dialog
    • arrows

Text Wrapping

  • Apply text wrapping from -
    • ribbon
    • dialog
    • Format Painter
    • context menu
  • Edit wrap points
  • Search for and insert clip art image
  • Insert a text wrapping break
  • Recolor an image

Bullets

  • Manage the Styles Pane
  • Use the Styles Pane to apply a style
  • Change the bullet shape
  • Update style to match selection
  • Use the Styles Pane to modify a style
  • Change the bullet size and color
  • Change the bullet indention

Columns

  • to create columns with the Columns button

Adjust Columns

  • Adjust columns with the Columns dialog
  • Adjust indentions with ruler
  • Adjust text flow with line break

Final Edit and Print

  • Use END to move to end of line
  • Copy and paste a picture from a web page
  • Wrap text around an image
  • Select a whole table
  • Increase Font Size with button
  • Type in a font size
  • Recolor an image
  • Edit wrap points.

Letter Template

  • Use an existing template to create a new document
  • Replace placeholder text and dummy text

Tabbed Table

  • Add a tab stop to the ruler
  • Adjust a tab stop on the ruler
  • Create a columns effect with tab stops
  • Use borders to create a row effect

WordArt

  • Insert WordArt
  • Format WordArt with text tools

Icon: Word 2010 Icon: Word 2013 Icon: Word 2016 WordArt: Fill and Outline

  • Modify text gradient fill
  • Modify text outline

Icon: Word 2010 Icon: Word 2013 Icon: Word 2016 Word Art: 3D

  • Create 3D effect for WordArt

Text Boxes

  • Create a text box
  • Add text to a text box
  • Format a text box
  • Change the shape of a text box
  • Change the stacking order
  • Edit a text box
  • Group a text box with an image

Save As a Template

  • Create a template from an existing document
  • Save a template to your own folder

Skills in Exercises

Exercise Word 2-1 Correct and Format

  • Convert a document to the new file format
  • Correct typing errors
  • Modify the text
  • Use Find and Replace
  • Apply a theme
  • Adjust white space

Exercise Word 2-2 Template

  • Create a template from an existing document

 

Exercise Word 2-3 Soccer

  • Use a letter template
  • Create a new letter template

Exercise Word 2-4 Columns/Bullets

  • Format data into columns
  • Format a list with bullets

Exercise Word 2-5 Styles

  • Edit a document
  • Update styles
  • Create new styles
  • Create a custom template

Important Terms

Do you know these? The Glossary contains definitions.

AutoFormat

AutoShape

break

bullet

character style

column

column break

Continuous break

cut-and-paste

delete

drag-and-drop

drawing object

even break

fill

Find

gradient

gradient stop

group

handle

hard page break

indent

Insert

justify

letterhead

line break

link

linked style

macro

macro virus

margin

next page break

newspaper columns

odd break

Options

order

Overtype

OVR

Page Break

Page Setup

paragraph style

Quick Style

recipient

Redo

Replace

section

Section break

select

soft page break

spell check

style

Style Gallery

style set

tab stop

template

text box

text wrapping break

theme

Undo

ungroup

virus

Wingdings

WordArt

wrap

wrap points