Lesson 16 Enhancing Documents - Wikispaces11.… · · 2012-01-07Formatting Text in Columns ......

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Lesson 11 Enhancing Documents

Computer Literacy

BASICS: A

Comprehensive Guide

to IC3, 3rd Edition

Morrison / Wells

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Morrison / Wells CLB: A Comp Guide to IC3 3E 2 2 2

Objectives

Format text in columns.

Add borders and shading to enhance the appearance of your documents.

Use building blocks to quickly format page numbers, headers and footers, and enter frequently used text.

Insert data elements, such as the current date, symbols, hyperlinks, and footnotes and endnotes.

Insert, resize, and position graphics.

Use drawing tools to create your own graphics.

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Objectives (continued)

Create a new document based on a template.

Apply, create, and modify styles to create effective documents efficiently.

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Vocabulary

AutoShape

banner

blog

boilerplate text

building blocks

clip art

crop

desktop publishing

drawing objects

fields

footer

graphics

header

manual column

break

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Vocabulary (continued)

section break

sizing handles

style

text box

thumbnails

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Introduction

Desktop publishing is the process of creating

a document using a computer to lay out text

and graphics.

Word provides a number of features,

including pictures, drawing tools, data

elements, templates, and styles, which will all

help you create an attractive document.

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Formatting Columns, Borders, and Shading

One common example of desktop publishing

is newsletters.

Newsletter text is often formatted in columns.

The title of a newsletter is usually formatted

as a single-column banner, which is a

headline that spreads the full width of the

page.

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Formatting Columns, Borders, and Shading (continued)

Formatting Text

in Columns:

Word provides

several multi-

column formats,

and you can

modify these

formats to meet

your needs.

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Formatting Text in Columns (cont):

If you want to format one portion of the document in one

column and another portion of the document in two

columns, you must divide the document into multiple

sections by creating a section break.

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Formatting Text in Columns (cont):

The Columns and Breaks commands are located

in the Page Setup group of the Page Layout tab.

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Adding Borders and Shading:

Word offers many options for line styles, line

weights, colors, and shading effects.

The tools to access these options are in the

Paragraph group on the Home tab.

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Adding Borders and Shading (cont):

The Borders and Shading dialog box contains more

options.

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Using Building Blocks

Building blocks are built-in document parts that

are already designed and formatted, enabling you

to create a professional-looking document

quickly.

The building blocks include fields, which indicate

where you can insert variable text or data.

Placeholder text in the fields prompt you for the

information.

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Using Building Blocks (continued)

Inserting Page Numbers and Creating Headers and

Footers:

A header is information and/or graphics that prints in the

top margin of the page.

A footer prints in the bottom margin of the page.

The header, footer, and page number options can be

accessed in the Header & Footer group on the Insert tab.

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Inserting Page Numbers and Creating

Headers and Footers (cont):

When the insertion point is positioned in the

header or footer, the Header & Footer Tools

Design tab is displayed.

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Creating Your Own Building Blocks:

You can create your own text entries or other document

parts such as headers and footers and add them to Word’s

gallery of building blocks.

Use the Quick Parts button to save a selection.

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Inserting Data Elements

Developing a document often requires inserting

special data elements such as dates and times,

footnotes, copyright and trademark notations,

hyperlinks, and footnotes.

Inserting the Date and Time:

You can insert a field to show the current date

and/or time.

AutoComplete can make entering the current date

easy and accurate.

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Inserting Data Elements (continued)

Inserting Symbols and Creating Hyperlinks:

You can insert special characters and symbols using

the Symbol dialog box.

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Inserting Symbols and Creating Hyperlinks (cont):

You can create links in Word documents to connect users

to other Word documents, other application documents, e-

mails, and Web pages.

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Inserting Footnotes and Endnotes:

You can add footnotes to documents to provide additional

information or comments for the reader.

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Inserting and Formatting Graphics

To illustrate an idea presented in a document, or

to make a document more functional, you can

include graphics, which are non-text items such as

digital photos, scanned images, and pictures.

The Illustrations group on the Insert tab provides

buttons to add images to a document.

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Inserting and Formatting Graphics (continued)

Inserting Clip Art and Images:

You can access clip art that is

stored in the Office Collections

folder; clip art you have saved;

and if you have an Internet

connection, clip art at the

Microsoft Web site.

Search results appear in the

task pane as thumbnails.

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Resizing, Cropping, and Aligning a Graphic:

Sizing handles are small circles and squares on the border of the

graphic.

When a graphic is selected, you can resize, cut, copy, paste,

delete, and move it.

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Resizing, Cropping, and Aligning a Graphic (cont):

Use a corner circle sizing handle to reduce or enlarge a graphic

proportionally.

When you crop a graphic, you cut off portions of the graphic that

you do not want to show.

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Resizing, Cropping, and Aligning a Graphic

(cont):

By default, Word inserts graphics in the line of

text.

A text-wrapping format must be applied to the

graphic before you can reposition the graphic

in your document.

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Inserting Lines, AutoShapes, and Text Boxes:

You can use drawing objects, which are shapes,

curves, and lines, to create your own graphic.

AutoShapes are predesigned drawing objects,

such as a star, an arrow, or a rectangle.

A text box is a drawing object that enables you to

add text to artwork.

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Inserting Lines, AutoShapes, and Text Boxes (cont):

The Shapes button and Text Box button are located on

the Insert tab.

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Using SmartArt Graphics:

SmartArt graphics are built-in, predesigned, and

formatted graphics which you can use to illustrate

concepts and ideas.

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Using SmartArt Graphics (cont):

SmartArt graphics include fields with XML tags, and

you can replace the field placeholder text.

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Creating WordArt Objects:

WordArt is a feature that enables you to

transform text into a graphic.

The WordArt button is located in the Text

group of the Insert tab.

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Using Templates and Styles

Word has predesigned document templates for

almost any purpose you can imagine.

Some templates are already installed on your

computer, and hundreds more are available at the

Microsoft Web site.

One type of template Word provides is a blog

post. A blog is a journal maintained by an

individual or group and posted on a Web site for

public viewing and comment.

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Using Templates and Styles (continued)

Creating a New Document Based on a

Template:

Fields in the document help to ensure that you

enter the variable data in the correct places,

so if you leave a field blank, the field

placeholder text will not appear in the printed

copy of the document.

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Using Templates and Styles (continued)

Working with Styles:

A style is a set of formatting characteristics that you

can apply to characters, paragraphs, tables, and

numbered and bulleted lists.

When you apply a style, you apply a whole group of

formats in one simple step. For example, instead of

taking multiple steps to format your title as 14 point,

Arial, bold, and center-aligned, you can achieve the

same result in one step by applying a title style.

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Summary

In this lesson, you learned:

Text can be arranged in a variety of multicolumn

formats, all within the same document.

Borders and shading are effective tools for

enhancing the appearance and effectiveness of

a document. You can choose from a variety of

options for line styles, colors, and shading

effects.

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Summary (continued)

Word provides a gallery of building blocks for

quickly adding page numbers and headers

and footers to a document. You can also

create your own building blocks and add

them to the gallery.

Word also provides several tools to insert

data elements such as footnotes and

endnotes, the date and time, symbols, and

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Summary (continued)

Clip art and other pictures also help to enhance the

appearance and effectiveness of a document. You

can resize and crop the graphic, and choose from

several options to align the graphic in the document.

You can create your own artwork using the drawing

tools, AutoShapes, and the WordArt feature.

Word templates and styles provide a uniform

appearance for your documents and can increase

the speed and quality of your work by providing

predesigned documents and preset formats.

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