Word

Word
Project 4
Creating a Document with Title Page and Tables

3 Types of Proposals

Planning - offers solutions to a problem or improvement to a situation

Research - requests funding for research project

Sales - offers product or service to existing or potential customers

Borders

Border(rule) - can be added to any edge of a paragraph

Click Tables and Borders button on Standard Toolbar

causes Tables and Borders toolbar to display on screen

Remove Border - click Outside Border button arrow, click No Border

2 Outside Border buttons

1. Formatting toolbar button - to use border as most recently defined

2. Tables and Borders toolbar button - to change the size and color of the new border

Clip Art Windows Metafiles

Clip Gallery

Clip Art files - predefined graphics packaged with Word 97

Microsoft provides Web page with additional clips

Windows metafiles - extension .wmf

Help system - to assist in locating image

Click Picture on Insert menu

Clip Art Files

Floating picture - a picture inserted in a layer over the text

format used by Word to import clip art files

Inline picture - picture positioned directly in the text at the location of the insertion point

Note: change a floating picture to an inline picture using the Format Picture dialog box

Inserting a Section Break

New Section - created to change margins, paper size, orientation, page number position, contents or position of headers, footers, or footnotes.

Each section may be formatted different from the others

Section break - double dotted line separated by the words Section Break

specify if new section should begin a page

Deleting Section Breaks

Note: All section formatting is stored in the section break

Delete a section break (all associated formatting) - click right button click Cut on the shortcut menu

Undo button can be used to restore section break

Setting and Using Tabs

Custom tab stops - Word clears all default tab stops to the left of the custom tab stop

Align tab stop - left, centered, right, decimal

Tab settings - stored in paragraph mark at end of each paragraph

Enter key at end of each paragraph carry the tab stops forward to the next paragraph

Removing and Moving Tabs

Move - drag tab marker to the desired location in the ruler

Remove - drag the tab marker down and out of the ruler

Tabs dialog box - used to change tab stop’s alignment or position

click Tabs on the Format menu

2 Kinds of Word Tables

Simple (Same number of rows and columns) - use the Insert Table Button to create

Complex ( varying number of columns per row) - use the Draw Table feature

Advantages: Word users create tables with Insert Table button or Draw Table feature rather than using tabs, to make it easier to rearrange rows and columns, change column widths, sort rows and columns, and sum contents of rows and columns.

Table Terms Concepts

Tables have a .5-point border

cell - intersection of row and column

end-of-row mark - used to add columns to the right of a table

end-of-cell mark - used to select a cell

left-aligned default

Working with Tables

Depending on task performed, the function of Table button changes as do the Table or shortcut menus.

Add row to end of table - position cursor to the bottom right corner cell, then press the TAB key

Add Rows in Table Middle

Select the row below the insert

Insert Rows Button - on Tables and Borders Toolbar

Insert Rows command on Table or shortcut menu

Delete row - select it, click Delete Rows on Table or shortcut menu

Add Columns in Table Middle

Select the column to the right of insert

Insert Columns Button - on Tables and Borders Toolbar

Insert Columns command on Table or shortcut menu

Delete Column - select it, click Delete Columns on Table or shortcut menu

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Word

Project 4

Computer Assignment 1

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