• Features - multiple columns, insert pictures, wrap text around them, add color and lines
• Word provides many of the formatting features of a desktop publishing package

Desktop Publishing Terminology

• nameplate (banner) - top portion of newsletter contains title
• issue information - date of issue of letter
• rules (ruling lines) - horizontal lines in nameplate
• subhead - heading in body of letter
• vertical rule - line between columns
• wrap-around text - text wraps around graphic
• run-around - space between graphic and words

• Parallel - table columns, created with the Insert Table button
• Snaking - newspaper columns, flows from the bottom of one column to the top of the next, created with Columns button on Standard toolbar

• Subheads - are headings placed throughout the body of the newsletter
• Justified - left and right margins are aligned like edges of newspaper columns
• text below subhead is justified

• Dropped Capital Letter (drop cap) - first letter in paragraph appears larger than the rest of the characters in paragraph
• Text in paragraph wraps around the dropped capital letter

• Pull-Quote - quotation pulled, or copied from text of document, given graphic emphasis so that it stands apart (grasps attention of reader)
• copy text to Clipboard, paste it to column. To position it between columns, text box placed around it, then moved.

• Macro - series of Word instructions that are grouped together as a single command
• convenient way to automate a difficult or lengthy task
• Examples: formatting, editing activities, combine multiple commands, display dialog box with single keystroke

• Word macro recorder - used to create a macro, records a series of actions
• run macro - any time to perform the same set of actions
• macro language (Visual Basic) - powerful programming language available in all Office 97 applications

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• Word
• Project 6

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