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Formatting A Word Document

The document provides instructions for formatting and styling text using various tools in Microsoft Word, including changing margins and font sizes, adding bullets, inserting images and shapes, and creating tables. It challenges the reader to experiment with these tools to format the provided text and white space in creative ways.

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Formatting A Word Document

The document provides instructions for formatting and styling text using various tools in Microsoft Word, including changing margins and font sizes, adding bullets, inserting images and shapes, and creating tables. It challenges the reader to experiment with these tools to format the provided text and white space in creative ways.

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That is called the ribbon.

It has all the tools you need!

Formatting Fun

FIRST:

File Save As Click


Documents Save

1. Page margins are the white space on


the left and right and top and bottom of
all the words/text. This PAGE LAYOUT
needs some CUSTOM MARGINS! Change
all the PAGE margins [NOT THE
GUTTERS!] to .9

M
ar
gi
n

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2. Click in the white space just below
these directions and insert your first
name using Word Art. Change the color!
Change the design! JAZZ it up!!!

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3. Make the text of these words the


color of their names:
Red
Blue
Green
Yellow
Orange

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4. Move the words to the places that
match their meaning NO Tab, NO
space bar!!! [HINT: Home tab Paragraph box]
Right
Left
Center
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5. Many cannot do this. CAN YOU?


Correctly space these words:
Bob was a frog. He did not like to hop. Bob
liked to walk on his tiptoes. Silly Bob!

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6. FONTS & BULLETS
A. Change the font sizes of each line
below to match the numbers
Make this size 12

Make this size 24

Make this size 36

B.
INSERT BULLETS ON THIS
LIST: Highlight all three lines Click the
bullets icon [in Home] Can you find cool
characters for your bullets?? [You can even
IMPORT an image to use as a bullet!]

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7. Page Layout will lead you to page
borders. Add a page border (anything
you like). Your choice. [For fun click
Art]!

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8. CLIPART
A. Insert a Clipart picture of a person.
B. Find Callout Shapes and insert a
design. In the shape, type something that
person would say.
C. CHALLENGE: Shade the speech
bubble and change its border!

right click!]

[HINT:

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9. TABLE CHALLENGE:
A. In the white space under B. insert
a 3 by 3 table.
B. Make the OUTSIDE BORDER (not
inside cell borders) of the table look like
this:
Try different things to make it work!
Explore! HINT:

C. Make each row of the table a


different color. [Highlight the row right
click Borders & Shading.]
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10. FONTS, BOLD, ITALICS
Make each one the font and size it says.
Arial 10
Chiller 12
Courier Bold
Euphemia Purple Italics
Your own choice (type what you did!)
Your own choice (type what you did!)
11. TEXT BOXES

A. Click in the white space below


and insert a text box. Type something in
it.
B. Right click on the edge Format
Decorate it, play with text box styles,
add text, change the text direction, etc.

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Explore & see what else you can


do!
Surprise me!
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Show an image and its flipped version.
Find FLIP on the ribbon.

Move the image. If it doesnt move,


does it?!? TRY THIS: Right click on it

Tight. Now
move it where you want it to be!
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Insert an image from the Internet. Try
moving it around! DOES it move? If not, right
click on the image Wrap text Tight
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Try Shapes!
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Can you put text in a shape?
*
Can you insert & decorate a cube or other
3-dimensional shape?
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Video games are awesome, they are life, they
are everything, they are me. I would love to
play games in computer class every day.

BE HAPPY!

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