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CSCI A111
A Survey of Computers and Computing
Fall 1998 - First 8 Weeks

Module 3 - Intermediate Word Processing

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this module, you will know
How to change the line spacing of paragraphs
The different types of justification paragraphs may employ
How to change the indentation of a paragraph
How to set the amount of space before and after a paragraph
What styles are and why they are beneficial
How to apply, define, and re-define styles
How to use pre-defined styles
How to use the four different types of tabs
How to create leaders using tabs
How to add borders and shading to a paragraph
How to create bulleted and numbered lists, and when to use each
How to set the margins of a document
How to insert and format footnotes and endnotes
What headers and footers are and how to employ them
How to insert page numbers into your documents

Drills

What happens when you copy from one application and paste into another? Try this in two ways: First, try copying some text from a web page being viewed in Netscape, and pasting this text into a Word document. Second, try copying some text from Word and pasting this text into a FirstClass message. Which techniques work? Are fonts and character formats copied as well?

Download the file "simon2.doc" from FirstClass, and open the document in Word. Each paragraph in the document instructs you to perform a different form of paragraph formatting.

Examine the different pre-defined styles available in MS Word. Pay particular attention to styles you use often in papers (such as quotations and footnotes) or in business letters (bulleted lists, envelope addresses, signatures).

Investigate (using on-line help, if necessary) how to create Stationary (on the Macs) and Templates (on the PCs) in order to save style sheets for reuse. The use of style sheets is discussed in The Better Way.

Compose a resume for yourself, using styles. The resume should be extremely conservative in formatting and be saved as "Resume1.doc". Once completed, change the formatting to be much more aggressive and energetic by redefining your styles. This new resume should be saved as "Resume2.doc".

Guidelines

Never use empty paragraphs to add vertical space
Never use the Tab key or the spacebar to indent lines of text
Never use the Tab key or the spacebar to center text
Never use a numbered list when the order of items is unimportant
Never use footers to add footnotes to your document