Activity 1: Word Wrap
When typing drills in a keyboarding program, you are usually instructed to press enter at the end of each line; however, when typing sentences and paragraphs that are continuous, you should only press enter when you get to the end of a paragraph. When you press enter at the end of a line of text, the word processing program thinks that this is the end of a sentence and, therefore, capitalizes the first letter of the next line. If you are in the middle of a sentence when you press enter, this could lead to incorrect capitalization in your document.
Practice using word wrap by typing the following paragraphs at the bottom the page. Only press enter at the end of a paragraph, not at the end of each line. Don’t forget to tab at the beginning of a new paragraph.
Student Name
Harry went down to breakfast the
next morning to find the three
Dursleys already sitting around the kitchen table. They were
watching a brand-new television, a
welcome-home-for-the-summer present for Dudley, who had been
complaining loudly about the long walk between the fridge and the television
in the living room. Dudley had spent most
of the summer in the kitchen, his piggy little eyes
fixed on the screen and his five chins wobbling as he ate continually.
Harry sat down between Dudley and Uncle Vernon, a large, beefy man with very
little neck and a lot of mustache. Far from wishing
Harry a happy birthday, none of the Dursleys made
any sign that they had
noticed Harry enter the room, but Harry was far too used to this to care. He
helped himself to a piece of toast and then looked up at the reporter on the television,
who was halfway through a report on an escaped convict:
Save the file as Word Wrap on your H: drive.
Activity 2: Thesaurus
Open the file named Thesaurus from the shared drive:
My ComputerèS: driveè Keyboarding AppsèThesaurus
Key your name at the top.
Save the document to your H: drive as Thesaurus
Read the document and follow the instructions.
Save the document again.
Activity 3: Headers & Footers
1. Open a new Word document
2. Set the margins as follows (Page Layoutè MarginsèCustom Margins)
Top: 2.0”
Bottom: 2.0”
Right: 1.5”
Left: 1.5”
3. Set the line spacing for 1.5
4. Type the poem in the box below
Book
Oh, look, it’s a book!
I’m sure it must be
A path of adventures waiting for me,
A yellow brick road to the Wizard of Oz,
A frivolous poem without any cause.
Should I open it and peek to see what’s inside?
What if it’s scary I might need to hide.
I’ll never know unless I dare.
I need a good laugh, a cry or a scare.
I’m sure it can wait—well, then I’ll never know
Maybe it’s someplace that I’ll never go.
But today is the day that’s been waiting for me
I’ll open this book, and I will see.
Jessica McCain, age 14
5. Select the title “Book” by double clicking on the word
6. Make the title bold
7. Select the last line, “Jessica McCain, age 14” by clicking and dragging
8. Italicize and right align the last line
9. Select the title and body of the poem by clicking and dragging
10. Center the selected text
11. On Insert ribbon, Header & Footer grouping, click on Header
12. From the drop down menu, select 3 columns
13. Click on the first [Type text] and type your first and last name
14. Type your class period and workstation (5-33) in the center [Type text] section
15. Type the document name (Book) in the right [Type text] section
16. On the Design ribbon, Navigation grouping, click on Go to Footer.
17. Press TAB once and type From: Chicken Soup for the Kid’s Soul
18. Save the document on your H: drive as Book.
Activity 4: Bullets & Numbering
1. Open a new word document
2. Set the margins to the Normal setting (all 1” margins).
3. Click on HomeèStylesèNo Spacing
4. Click on InsertèHeaderè3 columns
5. Type your first and last name on the left
6. Type your class period and workstation in the middle (5-33)
7. Type the document name on the next page (Things)
8. Close the header and footer
9. Type “Things that make you go… Hmm” bold and centered on the page. Press Enter twice.
10. Change font to normal (not bold) and left aligned.
11. On the Home ribbon, Paragraph grouping Click on the Numbering button
12. Type the “Things that make you go… Hmm” list on the next page. MS Word should automatically number the items on the list.
13. When you are done typing the list, select it and click on the Bullets button which is just to the left of the numbering button.
14. If you prefer the numbering, click undo on the Quick Access toolbar.
15. Decide which format you like best (numbers or bullets)
16. You may also change the font, as long as the entire document stays on one page.
17. Save the document as Things on your H: drive
Things that make you go… Hmmm
1. If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of progress?
2. Why do you pay extra to get something put on your sandwich but don't get a discount when something is taken off?
3. If scientists were ever going to figure out how to travel through time, wouldn’t we now be seeing people from the future?
4. How is it that we put man on the moon before we thought to put wheels on luggage?
5. If you are born on February 29 of a leap year, when is your birthday?
6. If you had x-ray vision and could see through anything, wouldn't you see through everything and actually see nothing?
7. Speaking of Superman, why do people in Metropolis get excited if they really thought they saw a bird or plane?
8. What's the difference between partly cloudy and partly sunny?
9. If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
10. If a person owns a piece of land, do they own it all the way down to the core of the earth?
11. Why are Christmas lights packaged with the warning "For indoor or outdoor use only"? Where else would you put them?
12. Why do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front?
13. How can bottled water go out of date?
14. Why does lemon dish soap contain real lemons, but lemon juice is artificial flavoring?
15. If the professor on Gilligan’s Island can make a radio out of coconut, why couldn't he fix a hole in a boat?
16. If a truck is loaded with Helium, would it weigh less than when it was empty? Wouldn't it get better fuel mileage?
17. Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?
18. If Wile E. Coyote had enough money for all that Acme crap, why didn't he just buy roadrunner for dinner?
19. What should you do if you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?
20. Why do drive-thru ATMs have Braille code on them?
Activity 5: Format Paragraphs & Clipboard
1. Open a document called Declaration from the S: drive.
2. Save the document as Declaration on your H: drive.
3. Select the entire document by holding the ctrl key and tapping the “a” key.
4. On the Home ribbon, under the Paragraph grouping, click on the Launch button in the bottom right corner.
5. In the Indentation area under Special, click the drop down arrow and select hanging.
Note: MS Word creates a reverse indentation where the second, third, and all other lines are indented, but the first line is not. This appears as though the paragraph is “hanging” under the top line.
6. On the Page Layout tab, Paragraph grouping, in the Spacing section, change the Before to 12 pt.
Note that MS Word puts extra space between each paragraph without putting spaces between each line. This is different than double spacing the document.
7. On the Home ribbon, under the Clipboard grouping, click on the Launch button in the bottom right corner. This will open the Office Clipboard
8. Select and cut the paragraphs in the following order:
Make sure you triple click on each paragraph to select the whole thing. If you don’t triple click to select, the document will have errors.
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- Title (The Declaration of Independence)
- Sub-title (June 7, 1776 to August 2, 1776)
- June 7
- June 11
- June 12-27
- June 28
- July 1-4
- July 2
- July 4
- July 5
- July 6
- July 8
- July 9
- July 19
- August 2
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9. At this point, your document should be blank and all the text should be in the Office Clipboard. Use the paste all feature in the clipboard to paste the paragraphs in the correct order.
10. Select the title. Change to Font to: Arial Black, Size: 20, All Capital letters, and centered.
11. Select the sub-title. Change the Font to: Ariel, Size: 16, Centered.
12. Open the Header. (InsertèHeaderè3 column)
13. First and last name on the left
14. Class period and workstation number in the center
15. Declaration on the right
16. Save on your H: drive as Declaration
Activity 6: Setting Tabs
Activity 1: Read through all directions before you begin!!
1. Open a new document.
2. Create a header with your name, period and workstation, and document name (Tabs).
3. Key in T-shirt Chart centered and bold. Press Enter.
4. Align the insertion point on the left side of the page. Make sure you have turned the Bold option off.
5. On the Home tab, in the Paragraph grouping, click on the Launch button.
6. In the Paragraph dialogue box, click on the Tabs button in the bottom left corner.
7. Use the table below to set the tabs listed
a. Type the Tab Stop Position
b. Select the Alignment
c. Press Set after each tab stop is set.
Tab / Tab stop position / Alignment / Effect (what it does)1st / 1” / Left / Left aligns the text under the tab mark
2nd / 2.5” / Center / Center aligns the text under the tab mark
3rd / 3.75” / Decimal / Aligns the decimals under the tab mark
4th / 5” / Right / Right aligns the text under the tab mark
8. Key the data about the T-shirts using the tabs you just set. Press the tab key on your keyboard to create the space between words.
Be sure to type the numbers without a period and press tab at the beginning of each line.
9. Save document on your H: drive as Tabs. Leave open for activity 2!
Activity 2: Read through all directions before you begin!!
1. Move your insertion point to the end of the T-shirt document you just created.
2. Press Enter 3 times and type Upper Management bold and centered. Press Enter.
3. Go to HomeèParagraphèLauncherèTabs
4. In the Tabs dialogue box, click Clear All
5. Set the Tab Stop Position to 5.5, alignment Right, and number 2 (the dots) in the leader section, then click OK
6. Left align the insertion point and turn off the Bold format.
7. Key the following text. Use your name in place of the “Your Name” text in the document.
8. Save the file.
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