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Word-processing:

Using a computer to write with, arrange words, check spelling, change how words appear on screen and in print.

The following terms are ones you will come across while word processing.

MENU BAR: This is the list across the top of the screen

DROP DOWN MENU: You click on each of the above to produce a drop down menu from which you can select other items.

TOOL BAR:

This is the group of buttons below the menu bar.

FONT: This is the appearance of text, the shape of the letters.

Times New Roman

Courier

Arial

FONT SIZE: How big the letters are.

Size 12, size 16, size 24.

HIGHLIGHT: Select a piece of text by holding down the left mouse button and dragging it across a piece of text.

Font Appearance:

You use the following set of buttons to change select if a font is Bold, Italic or Underlined or to alter its colour.

To change these in advance select the one you want and then type.

To change after you have typed then highlight the text and then select the one you want.

Alignment/Justification:

This describes how the text lines up on your page. There are four methods:

  1. Left. Text is aligned down the left hand margin.
  2. Right. Text is aligned down the right hand margin.
  3. Centre. Text is centred on the page.

All of these are accessible from the menu bar. They are just to the right of the B I U buttons.

Alignment is paragraph sensitive.

Practical:

Design a piece of letter head as follows:

  1. Centre your name and address at the top of the page.
  2. Set your name to font size 16 and bold.
  3. Set the rest of the address to size 14 and normal ( not bold)
  4. Right align the date two lines below the address in font size 12.
  5. Two lines below the date left align the start of your letter with Dear Sir/Madam ( stay in font size 12).
  6. Enter the following text left aligned:

    7. The report will look at the 1992 Act and the changes it was expected to bring. It will look at the ideas of culture within an organisation and the subject of change and its management. It will also examine these in the specific context of the Adult Education.

  7. Leave two lines then add the following heading:

    8. The Further and Higher Education Act, 1992

  8. Underline it

 

You should end up with something like this:

Your Name

Address start

Address next

town

county, post code

17th october

 

Dear Sir/madam,

The report will look at the 1992 Act and the changes it was expected to bring. It will look at the ideas of culture within an organisation and the subject of change and its management. It will also examine these in the specific context of the Adult Education.

 

The Further and Higher Education Act, 1992

CUT: Remove a piece of highlighted text to use later in a document .

COPY: Copy a piece of text to use later in a document ( but leave the original)

PASTE: Put a piece of cut or copied text somewhere.

The items that you will want to check are the page size, orientation ( which way round it is), and the margins.

Page size:

Paper comes in different sizes. The standard used in the UK is A4.

These notes are printed on A4 paper. The standard in the US is letter size, this is not the same as A4.

Orientation:

This is which way round the paper is. There are two ways it can be: Landscape Portrait

This page is in Portrait.

Margins:

This is the gap left between the edges of the page and the start of your typing.

Changing the above:

All of the above are changed through something called page setup. You get in to this as follows:

  1. Click on File
  2. Choose page setup from the drop down list.
  3. You can now select different paper sizes
  4. You can also set different margins.