INF1030

Word Processing

In this module you will learn to

• Create and modify text• Adjusting the setup of a page• Headers and Footers• Inserting and moving Images and Tables• Word Art

Open a New Document in Word

• We will use this document as a tutorial for the main assignment.

• When you are done, hand it in so that I know you understand what to do!

Create A Text Box

• Go to the Insert tab and click on the Text Box button

• It will bring up some different choices. Choose the one on the top left.

It will look this:

Do these two things:• Grab the white circles to stretch it out• Rotate it using the green circle.

We will learn to modify the text

• Leave the text that is already in the box. If you got rid of it by accident, just type something else in there.

• Highlight the text with your mouse

Modifying Text

• Use the tools to change the colour, size, font and style (bold, italics, underline) of the text.

StyleFont

Size Colour

My Example

Realigning Text

• We will change how the text is aligned. Here are the different options:

Adjust Left(like in a book)

Center the text (like a title). Click on this one for this tutorial!!!

Move it to the left

Justify- this makes the spacing of the text look nicer

Modifying a Paragraph

• Let’s modify how far apart the lines are in a paragraph using the same example.

• To do this, highlight the text and right-click “Paragraph”

Next• Change the size of the spacing to 1.5. This will make the lines

be farther apart. You will probably have to stretch out your text box to see all the text.

Spellcheck

• Is your spelling all correct in the document?

• Go to the Review tab and click Spelling and Grammar. You’d be surprised how often this can help and how often people forget to do it!

• Good job! Would you like a cookie?

Adjusting Margins

• We will learn how to adjust the margins• Margins are the white space at the sides of

the page. You can control how much space there is.

• Go to the Page Layout tab and choose the Margins button

Margins

Let’s change it to “moderate”

Other Page Layout Features (You don’t have to do these but feel free to try)

• Orientation changes the “paper” you work on and puts it on its “side” so it is longer

• “Size” Changes the size.• “Columns” will make your text appear• In columns like in a newspaper

Headers and Footers

• Headers and footers are special places at the top and bottom of a page when you can add things like extra text, page numbers, images and other stuff.

• Go to the Insert tab and select Header• Choose the one called “Annual”

• Put the title as INF1030 and type in the year in the year section

• Now we will add a Footer. Choose the “alphabet” one.

We now have a Header and Footer

• The Footer has numbered our page and we can also add text at the bottom if we want to.

• To get out of editing the header and footer, click on the top right of Word.

• These headers and footers will appear on all the pages in the document. Individual ones can be edited.

Adding Pictures and Graphics

• This is very easy to do and most of you probably already know what to do!

• Go to the Insert tab. Insert a picture and insert a clipart picture.

Reduce the size of your pictures

• Because they probably take up way too much room. Do this one at a time

To move the picture more easily, right click on it. Select “Wrap Text” and then chose “Square”. This is one of many options that allows the pictures to move and work with text better.

You should have something like this

Inserting a table and a new page

• We are out of room on our one page, so now we will create a new blank one. To do this, click on this ->

• Clicking on this one will put everything after where your cursor is on another page. This is called a page break.

Making a table

• To make a table go to the Insert Tab and go to Table

• If you click on it a grid appears. The grid represents the size of the table. Let’s make one that is 3 squares by 3 squares

Finished Table, 3X3

Inserting a Row or Column• Just like in Excel, right click on the table and

you can go to Insert and add in what you need. Give it a try!

Word Art

• Word Art is text that looks cool, like 3-dimensional shapes and different colours.

• We will include some in your demo• Click on the Word Art button under the insert

tab

Choose a style!

• Here is mine:

• Next, we will edit what it looks like. To do this, right click on the text and select Format Shape

There are many options

• You can change the font the text, the angle of it, the shadows, and much more

• Experiment and play around with it!

Changing Colours

• To change the colour, go to the Home tab and choose Change Styles

Your Assignment

• You are to create an advertisement/ poster that uses all of the things we learned in the intro assignment.

• Text Boxes• Modified fonts and colours• Adjusting the Margins and Page Layout• Bullets and Numbers• Inserting pictures• A Table• Word Art• Header and Footer