Word Chapter 1 Notes
1. Open Word 2010 by clicking on the START button (Lower Left Hand Corner).
2. Here is a review of the parts of the MS Word Window.
a. Quick Access Toolbar provides quick access to common tasks. Save (the disk), undo (the
grey counter clockwise arrow), to the right of this the blue arrow can be used either to
repeat what was just done or undo and undo, lastly the printer to print the current
document to the current default session. The pull down arrow is used to customize this
toolbar.
b. Title Bar: Shows the title of the current document and its status.
c. Minimize, Maximize and Close are windows commands to change the size of or close the
window.
d. Ribbon is the name for the area shown below.
e. Controls are organized into Tabs (red) holding related controls and within each Tab are
subgroupings of related items called Groups (blue). In MS Office when you are uncertain
where to start to look for something remember Dorothy Gail’s saying from the Wizard of Oz
“There’s no place like Home.”
i. Gallery describes a group of related alternative settings from which you can select
one. Below is the Home Tab, Styles Group, Styles gallery.
ii. Pull down Menus: Below is the pull down menu for the fonts.
f.
Starting with a Blank Document you will see a blinking line this is called the insertion point
g. Scroll Bar is on the right hand side of the window and may also be on the bottom of the
window as well. It is used to move the image either up and down or left and right on the
screen when the whole document cannot be displayed either vertically or horizontally.
h. Status Bar (red ) shows the status of the document. From left to right it components are
i. Page:__ of __ This tells you what page number you are on and how many pages
that are currently in the document. (Light blue)
ii. Word: The count of the words in the document (Dark Blue)
iii. Spelling and Grammar Check Icon: This indicates if the document has been spell
checked or if there are other common problems. (Yellow)
iv. Print Layout Button. These five buttons shows you the current as well as alternative
views of the document. (Green)
v. Zoom Level: This allows you to adjust the zoom of what is displayed without
changing the way it will print out. (Orange)
3. For the class exercise we will develop a flyer. Below are the Parts of Flyer.
a. Headline: The line at the top of the flyer
b. Body: Everything between the Headline and the Signature Line
c. Signature Line: The bottom line of the flyer
4. Here is what the text will look like after we get to item 8, but before we make a spelling correction.
5. In the Home Tab, Paragraph Group press/click on the ‘Show/Hide’ button (backwards P). Note the
formatting marks are displayed in the document.
6. Type the headline ‘Found Dog’ and Press ‘Enter’ key twice.
7. Type the first sentence of the body. “Adorable, loving, friendly, well-behaved dog found early Friday
morning June 1, wandering on the bike trail at Filcher Park in Hampton Township.”. Press the ‘Enter’
key.
8. Type “Tan color with paches” press the Space Bar note the wavy red line appears below “paches”
after the Space Bar is pressed. This indicates that Word believes it to be misspelled. Right click on
the misspelled word and the shortcut menu appears with suggestions on the correct spelling. Click
on “patches” and note that the spelling is changed. Press the ‘End’ key on the keyboard and note
the insertion point moves to the end of the line.
9. Continue typing the sentence by typing “white on his chest”. Press ‘Enter’. Type “Male, adult cocker
spaniel”. Press ‘Enter’. Type “Green and silver collar with the name, Bailey, on the tag”. Press ‘Enter’.
Type the signature line “If this is your lost dog, call 555-1029”. This is the end of the text of the flyer.
10. Click on the headline to move the insertion point. Home Tab, Paragraph Group click on the ‘Center’
button. Note to the left is ‘Align Text Left’ and to the right is ‘Align Text Right’. Repeat this process
on the signature line.
11. Move the cursor to the left of the headline until it changes to a right-pointing arrow. Click and the
entire line will be selected (highlighted). Note that a mini tool bar appears faintly and as you move
the cursor towards it, it gets brighter.
12. With the Headline still selected. Home Tab, Font Group click on the pull down menu button on ‘Font
Size’ box. Note as the cursor moves over the various fonts they are previewed. Select 72 pts.
13. With the Headline still selected. Home Tab, Font Group click on the pull down menu button on the
‘Font’ box. This displays the Font gallery. . Select ‘Arial Rounded MT Bold’ font. If this font is not
available use Arial Black Font.
14. With the Headline still selected. Home Tab, Font Group, ‘Change Case’ button, click on the pull down
menu and select ‘Uppercase’.
15. With the Headline still selected. Home Tab, Font Group, ’Text Effects’ button, click on the pull down
menu and select ‘White, Gradient Outline – Accent 1’ (‘A’). This option is new to 2010.
16. With the Headline still selected. Home Tab, Paragraph Group, ‘Shading’ button, click on the pull
down menu and select ‘Orange, Accent 6, Darker 50%’ (row 6, col 10).
17. Move the cursor to the left of the first line of the body text until it changes to a right pointing arrow.
Click and hold dragging downward until all the body of the text is highlighted.
18. Home Tab, Font Group click on the arrow to the right of the ‘Font Size’ box and select 22 pts.
19. Move the cursor to the left of the second line of the body text until it changes to a right pointing
arrow. Click and hold dragging downward until all the body of the text is highlighted.
20. Home Tab, Paragraph Group click on the bullet button. Note the change in the body text.
21. Click on the word ‘Bailey’ to move the insertion point to it. Home Tab, Font Group click on the ‘Italic’
button (‘I’). Note the entire word is changed.
22. With the insertion point still in ‘Bailey’. Home Tab, Font Group click on the pull down menu of the
‘Font Color’ button and select ‘Blue, Accent 1, Darker 25%’.
23. Move the cursor to the left of the signature line. Click to highlight it. In the minitool bar click on the
‘Grow Font’ button until the font size is at 22 pts.
24. Place the cursor to just before the ‘c’ in the signature line. Click and hold dragging it until ‘call 5551029’ highlighted. Home Tab, Font Group click on the ‘Underline’ button (‘U’).
25. Home Tab, Styles Group click on the pull down menu of the ‘Change Styles’ button. Select ‘Colors’.
Note the default style should be ‘Office’. Select ‘Aspect’. Note the change of colors in the document.
This is because the colors palette has been changed. If you check those colors that you previously
set you will find them changed. i.e. The headline is now ‘Tan, Accent 6, Darker 50%’.
26. If you have not already done so go to D2L class site. Content Section, Class Files, Word Chapter 1. In
the class Content section, open up ‘Dog Picture 1’ and copy it. Do this by right clicking on the
picture, select “Save Image as”. In the dialog box that appears click on “Save” (it should be in the
Pictures Library if not go to the Pictures Library prior to saving the image).
27. Back in your Word document move the insertion point to the blank line below the headline.. Insert
Tab, Illustrations Group, click on ‘Picture’. In the dialog box that appears select the first Dog image
and click on insert.
28. Click on the picture, Picture Tools Format Tab, Size Group, enter 2.74 in the Height box. Note the
change in the size of the picture.
29. Repeat this process with ‘Dog Picture 2’ placing it to the right of the first picture.
30. Click on the first dog picture to select it. Picture Tools Format Tab, Picture Styles Group click on the
pull down menu to show the gallery. Select Soft Edge Rectangle.
31. With the first picture still selected. Picture Tools Format Tab, Picture Styles Group click on the
Picture Effects pull down menu. Select ‘Glow’. From the gallery that appears select ‘Tan, 5 pt glow,
Accent color 6’. If this color is not available you may not have properly set the Color Style to ‘Aspect’
item 25
32. With the first picture still selected. Picture Tools Format Tab, Picture Sytles Group click on the
Picture Effects pull down menu. Select ‘3-D Rotation’. From the gallery that appears select ‘Off Axis
1 Right Effect’.
33. Repeat this process (Steps 29 – 31) with this picture too except in the 3-D Rotation select ‘Off Axis 2
Left Effect’. Finally, Home Tab, Paragraph Group click on Center and your flyer should look like this:
34. Page Layout Tab, Page Background Group click on Page Borders. In the dialog box that appears in
the style section select the style with a dash and two dots. Then in the color box select ‘Dark Green,
Accent 4, Lighter 60%’. In the Width box select 3 pt. Click OK.
35. Click on the Headline. Page Layout Tab, Paragraph Group and in the Spacing Before box change it
from 0 pts to 24 pts and in the Spacing After box change it from 10 pts to 12 pts.
36. Set the document properties to the class standard. File Tab, click on ‘Properties’ and click on ‘Show
Document Panel”. When the Document Panel appears below the ribbon and above the document in
the following fields enter Author: ‘Your Full Name, Title: Found Dog and Subject: CompSci 101
37. Editing the document i.e. In line two of the body insert the word ‘very’ in front of the word ‘early’.
38. Move the cursor to just before the ‘e’ in ‘early’ and click to move the insertion point here. Type
“very “
39. Save the document to the either your hard drive or a flash drive.