Student Name________________________________Instructor Name_________________________________
High School or Vocational Center_________________________________________Grade________________
COMPETENCY RECORD FOR ARTICULATION
Muskegon Community College
Business Services and Technology
Please check below each skill the student has mastered as described, with 80 percent accuracy, or with an A or
B grade. The skills needed for articulation of each course are listed. Software – Microsoft Word
BUS 180C
Introduction to Word Processing –Part I
(Using Microsoft Word 2002 - XP)
4 Credit Hours
Task
Document Screen Parts
Hiding and Showing Toolbars
Creating a New Document
Using Word Wrap
Using AutoCorrect
Using Spell It
Saving a Document
a. Naming a Document
Opening a Document
Canceling Commands
Using Save As
Closing Documents
Printing a Document
Copying Data Documents
Changing Default Type Size
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2
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Editing
A. Moving cursor through document
B. Scrolling through document
C. Browsing through document
D. Inserting text
(1) using “overtype”
E. Splitting and joining paragraphs
F. Selecting text
(1) shortcut methods
G. Deleting text
H. Moving cursor through document
I. Scrolling through document
J. Browsing through document
K. Inserting text
(1) using “overtype”
L. Splitting and joining paragraphs
M. Selecting text
(2) shortcut methods
N. Deleting Text
Undo and Redo
Formatting Characters
a) Bold
b) Underline
c) Italic
Understanding Fonts
a) Serif vs Sans Serif
Using the Font Dialog Box
a) Effects
b) Underline Options
c) Color
d) Animation
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3
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Creating Memos
a) Correct Memo Format - MCC
Inserting Symbols and Special Characters
Removing character formatting
Using Help
Non-printing characters (Show/Hide)
Paragraph Alignment (toolbar, format menu, shortcut menu, keyboard
commands)
a) Left
b) Right
c) Center
d) justified
Line Spacing
a) keyboard commands for single, double, and 1.5
Repeat Key
Indenting Paragraphs (format menu, shortcut menu, ruler bar, keyboard
commands)
Left and/or right indents
Hanging indent
First-line indent
Using Format Painter
a) for one item
b) multiple items
Removing paragraph formatting
Adding Points of space before and/or after paragraphs
a) for multiple items
Numbered Paragraphs , Customizing numbered bullets
Bulleted Paragraphs, Customizing bullets
Outline Numbered List
Ordinals
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4
Task
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Changing document view
a) normal – default
b) print layout
c) web layout
Create and edit Drop Caps
Changing margins for entire document (one section)
Changing to mirror margins
Changing gutter margins
Changing paper size
Changing page orientation
Vertical alignment of text on a page
Inserting hard page breaks
Using Print Preview
a) editing in print preview
b) viewing multiple pages
c) using zoom
Keeping text together on a page
a) widow/orphan
Changing margins for different pages in a document
Changing margins within one page of a document
Using click and type
Using Spellcheck
Using Thesaurus
Creating a Folder
Selecting documents in contiguous order
Selecting documents in non-contiguous order
Deleting documents & folders
Renaming document
Moving and copying documents to different drives or folders
Opening documents as read-only
Displaying document properties
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5
Task
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Unsatisfactory
Changing Views
Printing current page only
Printing selected pages
Printing multiple copies
Creating envelopes
a) with letters
Manipulating Tabs on the Ruler
a) left
b) right
c) center
d) decimal
e) bar
f) moving, deleting, visually aligning
Using New Line command
Manipulating Tabs at the Tabs Dialog Box
a) leader tabs
b) clearing all tabs
Medium-Length Letter Formats
Deleting blocks of text
Moving blocks of text
a) clipboard
b) drag & drop
c) shortcut menu
Copying blocks of text
a) clipboard
b) drag & drop
c) shortcut menu
Collecting and Pasting Multiple Items
a) clearing clipboard
Saving selected text
Inserting documents
Arranging windows
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Closing all windows
Splitting windows
Minimizing, Maximizing, Restoring windows
Using drag and drop to move and copy
Inserting date and time
Highlighting text
Using Templates
Creating Newspaper columns
Formatting text into uneven newspaper columns with a line between
a) inserting column and/or page breaks
b) formatting text into newspaper columns and inserting a column break
c) moving between columns
d) removing column formatting
e) changing column width and spacing
f) balancing columns on a page
Applying Styles
Creating Headers/Footers
a) Header/Footer Toolbar
Inserting page numbers in Header/Footers
a) Inserting date and time Headers/Footers
Editing Headers/Footers
Deleting Headers/Footers
Formatting Headers/Footers
Inserting Auto Text in Headers/Footers
Changing Printing Position of Headers/Footers
Creating Different Headers/Footers for First-Page
Creating Different Headers/Footers for Odd and Even Pages
Creating Headers/Footers for Different Sections
Adding Clipart to Documents
Sizing clipart
Creating, Editing, & Deleting Auto Text Entries
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7
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Formatting Clipart Images with Buttons on the Picture toolbar or Format
Picture dialog box
Moving Clipart Images
Insert AutoShapes
Select, delete, move, copy shapes
Customize a drawn object
a) use fill color
b) use line color
c) use font color
d) add text
e) make 3-D
f) add shadow
g) send behind text
Creating a Table
a) Standard Toolbar
b) Menu bar
Entering text and editing tables
Deleting tables
Formatting tables
a) borders and shading
b) column widths
c) row heights
d) aligning text within cells
e) formatting text within cells
f) alignment of table
g) merging and splitting cells
h) changing text direction
Use AutoFormat in tables
Perform calculations in tables
Delete rows and columns in a table
Find specific text/formatting in document
Find specific text or formatting in a document and replace it with other text
or formatting
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8
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Unsatisfactory
Document Map
Non-break-space-see pg.587 (Ctrl + Shift + space) between 2 words you
don’t want separated between lines
Hyperlinks
Save as Web page
Next course in sequence: BUS 280C – Word Processing Part II
Instructor’s Signature___________________________________________________Date_________________
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