MS Word Part II

Lab 5: Microsoft Word

Today we'll be finishing up learning about this software. Since we're using Microsoft Word 2003 as reference, we just go along with the Microsoft Word 2007 instead.

By opening the program, we'll see a lot of features.

Tab Setting

The default tab setting is half an inch. On the document, press the tab key a few times to move across the page or we can manually just drag the ruler.

Document View

There are types of layout we can choose while working with our document to see how it look like:

• Draft view - when we're quickly editing the document
• Web Layout View - optimizes the document for online viewing (using browser)
• Print Layout View - shows the document as it will look like when it's printed.
• Reading Layout - make reading the document more comfortable
• Outline View - displays the document in outline form

Indents

These are useful to help reader find information rather quickly

• Left - Indents the entire paragraph from the left margin
• Right - Indents the entire paragraph from the right margin
• First line - Indents only the first line of the paragraph
• Hanging - Indents all lines after the first line of the paragraph

Columns

By default, the document has one column. We can have two or more columns by choosing Page Layout>Columns.

Alignment to Left, Center, Right, and Justify.

Drop Cap is an outstanding letter of a word, usually first alphabet from a paragraph.

Go to Highlight>Insert>Drop Cap

Bullets and Numbering

Numbering or Bulleting using Icon:

Highlight the list we want to number or bullet, click the Number Icon on Home ribbon

Remove numbering or bulleting:

Highlight the list, right click, choose Bullets or Numbering, press Enter, click None and press OK.

Next is learning on inserting the header and footer. As for the footer, not only for the page number, this is useful when it comes to assignments and we need to put the reference number and on the footer, we just stated our reference. As for the header, I usually use it as the subject name and topic.

Page Number

Just go to Insert>Page Number

Positions and alignments are used to determine the position and alignment of the page numbers. There are choices of page number as in the templates.

Finally the Tables.

Go to Insert>Table Command, select the number of columns and rows.

Or Table>Draw Table. use Eraser to erase a line or block of lines. We can customized the tables appearance as well. The color of the contents, the borders, the fonts, and so much more.

After we're done with the lab practices, we continues with 'Do You Know?' Presentations!

We formed few groups and discussed the few awesome things from what we learned so far. As for my group, one of the few things I presented like 'Do you know of how joystick got its name?'.

After we're done presenting, our instructor gave us the easiest assignment I ever encounter which is on 'Terms and Definitions'. We need to list out the terms and find the definitions that can be found scattered throughout our notes.

I think that's all for today... See you in next class!