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1. Enter your own text below the line below. Try to type a complete paragraph and let the words wrap
automatically.
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Practice placing the cursor at different points in your paragraph.
Practice using the backspace and delete keys.
Press the “Enter” key to begin a new paragraph. (Notice the difference between spaces between
lines within the paragraph and spaces between paragraphs.)
2. Let’s find the Undo and Redo buttons and practice undoing our last actions.
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3. Practice selecting text below.
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Use the mouse to click and drag across text.
Double-click to select words.
Triple click to select paragraphs.
Click and drag down the left margin to select lines.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of
foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was
the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before
us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other
way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted
on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a
king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was
clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were
settled for ever.
It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. Spiritual revelations were
conceded to England at that favored period, as at this. Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her fiveand-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the
sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and
Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its
messages, as the spirits of this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out
theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People,
from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to
the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane
brood.
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4. Practice changing the look of the text below.
Make this sentence bold.
Make this sentence italicized.
Underline this sentence.
Increase the size of this sentence to 20 points.
Change the font family of this sentence to something that resembles handwriting.
Change the font color of just a single word to red.
5. Type your own text below. Set a style (bold, italic, underline, etc.) before you type. Practice turning
styles ON and OFF as you type.
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6. Write a sentence below that is centered across the page.
7. Write a sentence below that is aligned with the right margin.
8. Change the line spacing of the following paragraph to double spaced.
Many familiar formatting commands are in view on the Home tab. In the Font group you’ll find
commands to work with text styles like Bold, Italic, Size, and so on. The Paragraph group, shown below,
lets you create bulleted lists, numbered lists, and multilevel lists, while the Styles group provides access
to preformatted styles.
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9. Create a bulleted list below of your favorite hobbies.
10. Create a numbered list of the steps needed to fry an egg.
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11. Add paragraph spacing after each paragraph in the following section.
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.
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.
Both the Themes gallery and the Quick Styles gallery provide reset commands so that you can always
restore the look of your document to the original contained in your current template.
12. Increase the indentation of the second paragraph below.
Shortly after Everett's well-received remarks, Lincoln spoke for only a few minutes. With a "few
appropriate remarks", he was able to summarize the war in just ten sentences.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in
liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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13. Copy the first paragraph from the previous page and paste below this line.
14. Cut the first paragraph of the Gettysburg address and paste it below this line.
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