Module Editing Essentials

Learning Outcomes

Build keying skill.Build editing skills.Edit letters.Edit memos and e-mail.Edit tables and reports.

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Keyboarding & Formatting, Lessons 1-60 Module 7, Slide 2 ©2008 South-Western Cengage Learning

Symbols & Special Characters52

Position the insertion point.Click the Symbols command to display a gallery of symbols. If necessary, click More Symbols to display the Symbols dialog box.

To insert symbols:

More Symbols

Symbols command

Gallery of symbols

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Keyboarding & Formatting, Lessons 1-60 Module 7, Slide 3 ©2008 South-Western Cengage Learning

Symbols & Characters (continued)52

Click the Symbols tab.Select a Symbol font or a Wingdings font.Select the desired symbol; click Insert and close.

Insert button

Symbols tab

Select font

Symbols dialog box

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Keyboarding & Formatting, Lessons 1-60 Module 7, Slide 4 ©2008 South-Western Cengage Learning

Symbols & Characters (continued)

To insert special characters:

Click the Symbols command and then click More Symbols to display the Symbols dialog box. Select the Special Characters tab.Select the special character desired; click Insert and then close.

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Symbols dialog boxSpecial Characters tab

Insert button

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Keyboarding & Formatting, Lessons 1-60 Module 7, Slide 5 ©2008 South-Western Cengage Learning

Office Clipboard52

On the Home tab, click the Dialog Box Launcher to display the Clipboard task pane.To paste an item, click the item you want to paste; click the down arrow and select Paste.

To use the Clipboard:

Clipboard Dialog Box Launcher

Click the item to paste

Click down arrow and Paste

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Keyboarding & Formatting, Lessons 1-60 Module 7, Slide 6 ©2008 South-Western Cengage Learning

Paste Options Button52

Point the mouse at the Paste Options button; then select the down arrow.Select the desired option.

To use the Paste option:Paste Options button

Click to use same format as new document

Click to use same format as original document

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Keyboarding & Formatting, Lessons 1-60 Module 7, Slide 7 ©2008 South-Western Cengage Learning

Drag & Drop Editing52

To move copy - select the text, hold down the left mouse button, and drag the text to the desired location.To copy text - hold down the left mouse button and the CTRL key, and drag the text to the desired location.

Rectangle indicates copy is being moved.

Plus sign indicates text is being copied.

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Keyboarding & Formatting, Lessons 1-60 Module 7, Slide 8 ©2008 South-Western Cengage Learning

Find & Replace52

Click Find and key the text you wish to locate in the Find what box.Click Find Next to find the next occurrence of the text.

To find text:Finds items in a document

Find tab

Find what box

Find Next

Replaces items in a document

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Keyboarding & Formatting, Lessons 1-60 Module 7, Slide 9 ©2008 South-Western Cengage Learning

Find & Replace Text (continued)52

Click Replace and key the text to locate in the Find what box.Key the replacement text in the Replace with box.Click Find Next to find the next occurrence; then click Replace (single occurrence) or Replace All (all occurrences).

To replace text:

Replace tab

Find what box

Replace with box

Replace & Replace All

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Keyboarding & Formatting, Lessons 1-60 Module 7, Slide 10 ©2008 South-Western Cengage Learning

Customize Quick Access Toolbar52

On the Quick Access toolbar, click the down arrow to display the Customize Quick Access Toolbar dialog box.Click the desired command that you wish to add to the Quick Access toolbar.

Save, Undo, and Redo are on the toolbar by default.

Check the items you wish to add to the toolbar.

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Keyboarding & Formatting, Lessons 1-60 Module 7, Slide 11 ©2008 South-Western Cengage Learning

Thesaurus52

Position the insertion point in the word you wish to replace.In the Proofing group on the Review tab, click Thesaurus.In the Research task pane, hold the mouse over the appropriate word, click the down arrow, and then click Insert.

To use the Thesaurus:Thesaurus button

Research task pane