Word – The Basics
Exercise 2
1. Change the left and right margins for this document.
2. Create a first line indent on the next three paragraphs.
On the Insert tab, the galleries include items that are designed to coordinate with the overall look of
your document. You can use these galleries to insert tables, headers, footers, lists, cover pages, and
other document building blocks. When you create pictures, charts, or diagrams, they also coordinate
with your current document look. You can easily change the formatting of selected text in the document
text by choosing a look for the selected text from the Quick Styles gallery on the Home tab. You can also
format text directly by using the other controls on the Home tab. Most controls offer a choice of using
the look from the current theme or using a format that you specify directly.
You can use these galleries to insert tables, headers, footers, lists, cover pages, and other document
building blocks. When you create pictures, charts, or diagrams, they also coordinate with your current
document look. You can easily change the formatting of selected text in the document text by choosing
a look for the selected text from the Quick Styles gallery on the Home tab. You can also format text
directly by using the other controls on the Home tab. Most controls offer a choice of using the look from
the current theme or using a format that you specify directly. To change the overall look of your
document, choose new Theme elements on the Page Layout tab.
When you create pictures, charts, or diagrams, they also coordinate with your current document look.
You can easily change the formatting of selected text in the document text by choosing a look for the
selected text from the Quick Styles gallery on the Home tab. You can also format text directly by using
the other controls on the Home tab. Most controls offer a choice of using the look from the current
theme or using a format that you specify directly. To change the overall look of your document, choose
new Theme elements on the Page Layout tab. To change the looks available in the Quick Style gallery,
use the Change Current Quick Style Set command.
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Word – The Basics
Exercise 2
3. Use the built-in tab stops and type color names at each inch ruler mark.
4. Create a custom tab stop at the 2 ¼ inch ruler mark and type your name at that point. Move the tab
by dragging the mark on the ruler.
5. Create a centered tab stop at the three inch mark and type your favorite book title.
6. Create a right-aligned tab stop at the 6 ½ inch mark and type today’s date.
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Word – The Basics
Exercise 2
7. Create a Header with your name and date.
8. Create a Footer with the page number.
9. Apply preformatted styles to each line below.
Title
Subtitle
Heading 1
This is sample text. It should be styled as “normal”. On the Insert tab, the galleries include items that are
designed to coordinate with the overall look of your document. Style this sentence with Subtle
Emphasis. You can use these galleries to insert tables, headers, footers, lists, cover pages, and other
document building blocks. When you create pictures, charts, or diagrams, they also coordinate with
your current document look.
Heading 2
This is sample text. It should be styled as “normal”. On the Insert tab, the galleries include items that are
designed to coordinate with the overall look of your document. Style this sentence with Intense
Emphasis.
10. Apply the Intense Quote style to the paragraph below:
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so
dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a
portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might
live.