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Formatting A Word Document

This document provides instructions for formatting text and inserting various elements like images, shapes, tables, and text boxes in Microsoft Word. It includes tasks like changing margins and font styles, adding borders and shading, inserting clipart and callout shapes, and experimenting with additional formatting options.

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Formatting A Word Document

This document provides instructions for formatting text and inserting various elements like images, shapes, tables, and text boxes in Microsoft Word. It includes tasks like changing margins and font styles, adding borders and shading, inserting clipart and callout shapes, and experimenting with additional formatting options.

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Vincent Murphy
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Formatting Fun

1. Page margins are the white space on the left


and right and top and bottom of all the words/text.
This PAGE LAYOUT needs some CUSTOM
MARGINS! Change all the PAGE margins [NOT
THE GUTTERS!] to .9










FIRST: File Save As ID# (J:)

Click Documents Save

That is called the ribbon.
It has all the tools you need!
Margin


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2. Click in the white space just below these
directions and insert your first name under these
directions using Word Art. Change the color!
Change the design! JAZZ it up!!!





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3. Make the text of these words the color of their
names:
Red
Blue
Green
Yellow
Orange




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4. Move these words to the places that match
their meaning NO Tab, NO space bar!!! [HINT: Home
tab Paragraph box]
Right
Left

Center

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5. Many cannot do this. CAN YOU?
Correctly space these words:

Bob was a frog. He did not like to hop. Bob liked
to walk on his tiptoes. Silly Bob!








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6. FONTS & BULLETS
A. Change the font sizes of each line below to
match the numbers


Make this size 12
Make this size 24
Make this size 36




B. Make it a bulleted list: Highlight all
three lines Click the bullets icon [in Home] Can
you find cool characters for your bullets?? [You can
even IMPORT an image to use as a bullet!]





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7. Page Layout will lead you to page borders.
Add a page border (anything you like). Your
choice. [For fun click Art]!


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8. CLIPART
A. Insert a Clipart picture of a person.
B. Find Callout Shapes and insert a design. In
the shape, type something that person would say.
C. CHALLENGE: Shade the speech bubble and
change its border! [HINT: right click!]








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9. TABLE CHALLENGE:
A. In the white space under B. insert a 3 by 3
table.
B. Make the OUTSIDE BORDER (not inside
cell borders) of the table look like this:





Try different things to make it work! Explore!
HINT:





Hello








C. Make each row of the table a different
color. [Highlight the row right click Borders &
Shading.]


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10. FONTS, BOLD, ITALICS
Make each one the font and size it says.
Arial 10
Chiller 12
Courier Bold
Euphemia Purple Italics
Algerian
Kunstler Scrip

11. TEXT BOXES
A. Click in the white space below B. and
insert a text box. Type something in it.










B. Click on it Format Decorate it, play with
text box styles, add text, change the text direction,
etc.
C. Right click on it Text Wrapping Tight
Grab the box and slide it to the very bottom of
this assignment!



Blogs:
Paste the home page web address of your blog
web here:


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Explore & see what else you can do!
Surprise me!

* Show an image and its flipped version.
I am
awesome

* Insert an image from the Internet.
* Try Shapes!
* Can you put text in an AutoShape?
* Can you insert & decorate a cube or other 3-
dimensional shape?
* Type two paragraphs about anything appropriate.
Highlight one and click Drop Cap! Repeat with the other
paragraph.

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