2016 Lesson 2
2016 Lesson 2
LEARNING OUTCOMES
In Lesson 1, you learned how to create, edit, and save a new document (the Conference Call letter).
You practiced moving around the page on the screen. You carried out simple formatting and
updating: adjusting margins, adding, deleting, and changing text. You learned to use the spelling
checker. Finally, you used the printer to produce a hard copy (printed) version of your document
on paper.
You should be beginning to think of the computer as a tool for processing data of all kinds in
much the same way as sculptors or wood carvers think of a hammer and chisel as tools for creating
forms out of stone or wood. Word has many functions that are designed to help you mold your
writing into a work of art.
In this tutorial you will review what you learned in Lesson 1. Then you will be introduced to
functions of Word that are especially valuable when working with longer documents. Amongst
these are the following:
tools for formatting text
bullets and numbered lists
more on indenting text
creating sections and columns of text
finding and replacing text
moving and copying text within a document
setting off a block of text with a border
adding graphics to a Word document
A caveat before you begin: You'll find it easiest to use the tutorial if you follow the directions
carefully. On computers there are always other ways of doing things, but if you wander off on your
own be sure you know your way back!
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Make sure you have in one of the computer’s USB ports your USB drive
containing your Work Files for Office 2016
The name of the document you will be working with is Term Paper. You will find this document
in the Practice folder which is inside the Miscellaneous Files folder of the Work Files for Office
2016. Here are the steps to open it.
From the File menu select Open, then in the Backstage View click on Browse
In the Open dialog box that pops up, scroll if necessary in the left hand frame
in order to locate the USB drive icon, then click once on the icon in order to
open it
Now navigate to the Work Files for Office 2016 folder and double click on it
to open the folder, then double click to open the Miscellaneous Files folder
There are five folders in the Miscellaneous Files folder: Alphabet, Merge Documents, Other
Documents, Practice Documents, and Templates. The document you are going to use for this set
of exercises is in the Practice folder.
Double click on the Practice Documents folder to open it, then double click
on the document Term Paper and wait while Word opens it
You are going to make lots of changes to this Term Paper document, including fixing grammar
and spelling errors that have been purposefully introduced. But you do not want to lose this original
version of the Term Paper, so you need to first save it somewhere else on your USB drive. The
ideal place will be in your Data Files folder amongst your Word Documents, as you did for Lesson
1.
In the File menu select Save As, then, in the Save As Backstage View, click
on Browse
In the Open dialog box that pops up, scroll if necessary in the left hand frame
of the dialog box in order to locate the USB drive—then click once on the icon
in order to open it
Now locate and double click on the Work Files for Office 2016 folder to open
it, and double click to open the Data Files folder
Finally, double click to open the Word Documents folder and click on Save
As you are working your way through this tutorial, you can now safely hit Ctrl+s frequently
to save your work as you go along. Every time you save the Term Paper document, you will
be replacing and updating the version that is in your Data Files folder. The original document,
which is in the Practice Documents folder of your Miscellaneous Files, will remain
untouched.
You are ready to begin work.
Inserting Page Numbers
It would be useful to insert page numbers in the Term Paper for easier reference as you work your
way through the remainder of this tutorial. You can insert page numbers in either the header or the
footer of your document. Word takes care of keeping the numbers sequenced as your page
numbering changes. You can also set the starting page number if you should want to start page
numbering at some number other than 1. You will learn how to do this later in this lesson.
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Here, then, is how you insert page numbers into your document.
From the Insert Ribbon > Header & Footer Group, click on Page Number
This will bring up the Page Numbering menu of options (Fig. 2.3).
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Notice that the cursor is waiting in the Header section of the page where you just inserted the Page
Number. Notice, also, that the Header and Footer Tools > Design Ribbon appears at the top of the
Word 2016 window (Fig. 2.4). In other words, you are now working in the Header section of the
Term Paper document.
Fig. 2.4 Opting for Different First Page (no page number on the first page)
Often you don’t want to show the page number on the first page of a document. To set the option
for no page number on Page 1, here’s what you do.
In the Header and Footer Tools Design Ribbon > Options Group, click to
place a check mark/tick in the box next to Different First Page (Fig. 2.5)
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Footer Tools > Design Ribbon, click on the Page Number icon and then click on the Format Page
Numbers... menu item to bring up the Page Number Format dialog box (Fig. 2.6).
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appearance of a document on the screen is what you will get on paper when you print it out. As
you make formatting changes to your document, they will show on the screen so that you can
visually check the effect of the changes before printing.
The exercises that follow will give you the opportunity to practice formatting text as you
reformat the Term Paper document.
Setting the margins
The easiest way to change any of the four margins on a page is in the Margins menu.
In the Layout Ribbon > Page Setup Group, click on Margins to bring down
the Margins menu (Fig. 2.7)
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Fig. 2.8 The Custom options in the Page Setup dialog box
In the Margins menu click on the Custom Margins… option to bring up the
Page Setup... dialog box
This will bring up the Layout menu of options. Notice that there are three tabs in this dialog box.
The Margins tab, aside from setting customized margins, lets you select Portrait or
Landscape (sideways) orientation.
You can also click on the Paper tab to tell Word 2016 the size of the paper you’re using.
If you click on the Layout tab, you can select if you want to number the pages differently for
even and odd pages, or for a different first page (as we have already done for this tutorial),
or if you want to number the lines on each page in a document—which is very useful if you
are working on a document with a friend or classmate or the members of a committee and
you all want to easily locate where one of the group thinks a change should be made in the
document (Page 6, line 22, for example).
Take a few moments to check out these various options, then, without making
any changes, click OK to close the Page Setup... dialog box
Aligning text
Alignment involves adjusting the margins of your text so it is lined up either to the left margin, the
right margin, or on both left and right margins of the page (often called justified text). Alignment
also includes the option to center text. The Term Paper document is currently left aligned
throughout. Fig. 2.9 illustrates where to find these tools in the Home Ribbon Paragraph Group.
Fig. 2.9 The Text Alignment Tools in the Home Ribbon’s Paragraph Group
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The first alignment icon highlighted in Fig. 2.9 (previous page) indicates left alignment, the second
indicates center alignment, the third indicates right alignment, and the fourth indicates justified
alignment. Let’s see how the different alignment options affect the appearance of your work.
Justified text
When you align text on both margins, called justified text, both sides of your text run flush with
the right and left margins. Seeing is believing, so carry out the steps that follow to see the effect
of this option. First you need to select the entire document so that can set the margins for justified
from page one to the last page of the document. This takes a second.
From the Home Ribbon > Editing Group, choose Select > Select All (or
simply press the Quick Keyboard command Ctrl+a) to highlight the entire Term
Paper document
Remember, if you make a mistake, it’s not a problem! You can undo whatever you did by
selecting Undo... from the Quick Access toolbar at the top left of the Word window or just hit
Ctrl+z). You can do this multiple times to return to a point where you want to resume your work.
Now, with the entire document highlighted, click on each Text Alignment
rectangle in turn and scroll up and down in the document so you can see
how your text looks each time you change the alignment
You want the final version of the document to be justified, so finish this
exercise by clicking on the icon for Justified text (aligned on both margins—
the last of the four alignment icons highlighted in the Paragragh Group)
Now click anywhere on the Term Paper document to deselect the highlighted
text, then Save this updated version of the Term Paper in your Word
Processing folder inside your Data Files folder (or simply hit Ctrl+s since
you already set up to save the file in this location)
Notice that the margins on both sides of the screen are now aligned to be flush with the left and
right margins except lines that do not reach all the way across the pages (such as the title lines and
some of the lines at the end of paragraphs).
Centered text
Centered text stands out on a page and is often used for titles. The following exercise steps you
through the process of centering the titles on the first page of the Term Paper document.
First, scroll all the way back to the beginning of the Term Paper document
Now, select all 3 Title lines at the top of the first page (including the author's
name), then in the Home Ribbon > Paragraph Group, select the Center
Alignment icon
After you have centered the title lines, click anywhere in the text of the
document, then save your work in progress (Ctrl+s)
Choosing font faces
Font faces come in all shapes and sizes, and you probably have at least a couple of dozen or more
available to you on your Windows computer. Times New Roman font comes standard with all
Windows computers, so the text displayed on your screen is almost certainly in this font since the
Term Paper document was saved with this font.
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Times New Roman is a serif font, which means it has serifs.1 Serifs are the small marks (flourishes)
used to complete a letter (Fig. 2.10).
The serifs are the little extra lines (circled) that complete the letters
Fig. 2.10 Serif (Times) and sans serif (Arial) font faces
A sans serif font doesn't have these flourishes, as you can see if you look closely at a font such as
Arial (Fig. 2.10 above).
In general, serifs improve readability by increasing the definition of letters. However, the clean
lines of sans serif fonts can prove easier to read in some contexts, especially, for example, with
larger font sizes. Sometimes you may need to set off one font against another (as in these tutorials)
so sans serif fonts such as Ariel and Comic Sans MS will often come in handy.
It will be useful for you to practice changing fonts. The object of this exercise is for you to
learn how to change fonts and to give you the opportunity to discover the wide variety of fonts you
can use. Complete the following exercise for practice.
From the Home Ribbon > Editing Group choose Select All (or Ctrl+a) to
highlight the entire Term Paper document
In the Home Ribbon > Font Group, click on the down arrow (Fig. 2.11) to drop
down the list of available fonts on your computer
1 Sans is French for "without." So Sans Serif refers to fonts without the extra little flourishes that embellish the
letters.
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Position the mouse pointer over any one of the fonts in the Font menu and
notice that you have a Live Preview on the page of how the font will look if you
were to select it for the Term Paper
Do this for several different fonts. Each time, check the letters carefully to see what type of font
you have chosen. Is the font you chose serif or sans serifs? Do you like any particular fonts?
Which is your favorite font?
Very important: For the sake of this tutorial you need to set the entire Term Paper document to
Times New Roman font after you have finished checking out some of the many fonts available
with MS Word. This is because the relative sizes of fonts may create variations in the page numbers
of the Term Paper document we’re working with, and this may affect the directions for the rest of
the tutorial.
So, repeat the steps above (Select All and choose the Times New Roman
font) to return the document to the 10 pt Times New Roman font
Now you are going to choose a different font just for the table on page 1 of the Term Paper
document. The Table begins with the header Skill or Concept and ends with ISTE Foundational
teacher concepts and skills.
12 point is standard;
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Fig. 2.13 ISTE table after formatting changes have been completed
Scroll to page 2, if necessary, and highlight the title of the table (Skill or
Concept) by dragging across it (or triple click on it)
In the Home Ribbon > Paragraph Group click on the center alignment icon
With the title of the Table still highlighted, in the Font Group make 14 pt the
point size of the title Skill or Concept, and, still in the Font Group, click on
the Bold icon (that’s the icon that looks like a big ‘B’) or hit Ctrl+b
Now highlight the caption at the end of the table (Table 1 ISTE Foundational
teacher concepts and skills), center it and change its point size to 8 pt, then
hit Ctrl+s again to save the changes you have made
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The table on Page 2 of your Term Paper document should now look like Fig. 2.14.
Change the
Spacing > Before:
to 6 pt
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Numbering
tool
Click here if
you want to
start
numbering at a
value other
than 1
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In the Numbering Library menu, click on the first numbering option (next to
the None option—Fig. 2.16 above)
Word immediately numbers each item in the table and uses a hanging indent so that the numbers
stand out and are easy to see.
If you wanted to start numbering from a number other than 1, you would do this by clicking
on the last option in the Numbering menu (Set Numbering Value… Fig. 2.16 above) and, in the
dialog box that pops up (Fig. 2.17), you would set the Set value to: at whatever value you want.
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Click on the last menu item: Define New Bullet… to bring up the Define New
Bullet dialog box (Fig. 2.19)
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For this exercise you'll use a picture that has been prepared in the Miscellaneous Files folder in
your Work Files for Office 2016.
Still in the Define New Bullet dialog box (Fig. 2.19 above), click on the Picture
button to bring up the Insert Pictures dialog box (Fig. 2.20)
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Highlight the contents of the body of the Table once again (but NOT including
the centered Table Title (Skill or Concept) at the top, or the centered caption
(Table 1 ISTE, etc.) at the bottom
Change the point size of the text to a point size of 12, then use the mouse to
drag the Right margin indent marker (Fig. 2.22) just 2 hash marks to the
left—that’s left, not right! (a ¼" only—Fig. 2.22)
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Fig. 2.25 The Tab selector icon to the left of the ruler bar
The Tab selector icon is set by default for left alignment (it even looks like the letter “L”). This
means that, if you click anywhere along the ruler to set a Tab Stop while this tab icon is selected,
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a left Tab Stop will be set at that place in the ruler. If you use the Tab key on the keyboard to tab
across to that Tab Stop, you will be left aligned on it, and any text you type will proceed from the
left to the right of the Tab Stop. Practice with these tab stops will help you understand.
You are now going to put four different Tab Stops along the ruler bar. Fig. 2.26 shows the Tab
Stops you should end up with for the correct alignment of the data in the table illustrated in Fig.
2.24 on the previous page.
Click once on the Tab icon button at the left end of the ruler bar, and you’ll
see the icon change to the one for centering text on the Tab Stop (it looks like
an upside down ‘T’ ( ) and indicates that text aligned on it will be centered
on it and, as you type, move to either side of the Tab Stop, left and right)
The Center alignment Tab Stop is the second Tab Stop in Fig. 2.26 above.
Click again (a second time) on the Tab icon button and you’ll see the icon for
right alignment (it looks like a backwards ‘L’ ( ), indicating that text
aligned on it will go to the left of the tab stop as you type, because it’s aligned
from the right)
If you’ve never used Tab Stops before, that must sound confusing, but you’ll see how it works in
a minute when you complete the exercises that follow. The right alignment Tab Stop is the third
one along the ruler in Fig. 2.26.
Finally, click again (a third time) on the Tab icon button and you’ll see the icon
for decimal alignment (this Tab Stop looks like an upside down ‘T’ with a dot
to denote the decimal point ( )—this is for decimal numbers, like dollars
and cents, for example, and makes sure everything is lined up on the decimal
point
Check the decimal alignment Tab Stop on the right hand side of Fig.2.26.
If you continue clicking on the tab icon button, you'll see other Tab Stops and indent markers.
You won't need these for the following exercise. Your task is to reproduce the table illustrated in
Fig. 2.24 on page 59. You’ll need to begin by setting the four Tab Stops as they are illustrated in
Fig. 2.26 above.
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Click on the Tab icon until you see that the left Tab Stop is selected, then click
once at the 1” hash mark on the ruler, as illustrated in Fig. 2.26 above
Click again on the Tab icon to select the center Tab Stop and click once at the
2 ½ ” hash mark on the ruler, as illustrated in Fig. 2.26 above
Click again on the Tab icon to select the right Tab Stop and click once at the
4” hash mark on the ruler, as illustrated in Fig. 2.26 above
Finally, click on the Tab icon again to select the decimal alignment Tab Stop
and click once at the 5” hash mark on the ruler, as illustrated in Fig. 2.26 above
Now, with the Tab Stops in place, you can start to enter the data from the table in Fig. 2.24 on
page 59.
Hit the Tab key to move the cursor across to the first tab, and enter the first
name in the table (Andrew—which will be left aligned on the tab stop)
Hit the Tab key again, and enter the class that goes with the first name
(Freshman—notice how it is centered on the Tab Stop as you type it)
Hit the Tab key again, and enter the rating value that goes with the first name
(186—again notice how it is right aligned on the Tab Stop)
Hit the Tab key again, and enter the test score that goes with the first name
(90.35—and notice how the value is aligned on the decimal point), then hit
the Enter/Return key to go to a new line
Continue in this way until you have entered all five (5) lines of data in the table
By the time you are done entering all the data your table should look like the one in Fig. 2.26 on
the previous page and you should have a good idea how Tab Stops work.
Position the cursor anywhere on the first line of the student records, then
position the tip of the mouse pointer on each of the Tab Stops one by one
and drag the stop down below the ruler, then release the mouse button to
throw it away (this will mess up the layout of the data in that first line, but that’s
OK for now since you’re just practicing)
You can also remove all the Tab Stops at one time (in one go). Here’s how you do this.
Click anywhere on the second student record and then double click on any
one of the Tab Stops
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Fig. 2.27 The Clear All button in the Tabs dialog box
Now click in the Tabs dialog box on the Clear All button
There! All the Tab Stops are gone for that particular student record. To clear the Tab Stops for
ALL the student records in one go, simply highlight all the records (Ctrl+a), double click on one
of the Tab Stops in the ruler bar and, in the Tabs dialog box that pops up, click on Clear All.
Close the document and Don’t Save it; this was just an opportunity for you to
practice using Tabs
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Underline
On page 2 of the Term Paper document (the page after the Abstract) we have the table of the 13
ISTE Foundational teacher concepts and skills. Following this table, on pages 3 through 5, each
skill or concept is taken one by one for further explanation. Your task is to underline the skill or
concept at the beginning of each of the 13 sections on pages 3 through 5.
When you do this, you will underline only the words that describe the skill or concept; you
will not include the number of the concept. In other words, you’ll underline only the line or two
of words immediately after the number that states the skill or concept. Fig. 2.28 illustrates what
you need to do.
Fig. 2.28 Underline only each of the Skills or Concepts from the Table on page 2
Here is a step-by-step explanation of how to do the first one.
Scroll down to the beginning of page 3 and, in the first skill or concept, click to
put the cursor immediately before the T of "Teachers..."
Now hold down the Shift key and at the same time click at the end of the skill
or concept (i.e. after the period at the end of the word “...software.") to highlight
the text of the skill or concept, then press Ctrl+u to underline the skill or
concept
That's all there is to it. Go ahead now and underline the remaining 12 skill or concept section titles.
When you have finished this exercise, the underlined section titles will look as illustrated in Fig.
2.28 above.
Don’t forget to save your work when you’ve finished this exercise
Italics
Your next task is to italicize the author's name on the first page. You can probably figure this out
for yourself, but just in case you need help, here are the steps.
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Select the author's name under the title on the first page of the Term Paper
and press Ctrl+i
Line spacing
Papers may be printed with variable spacing between lines. The following steps show you how to
do this in Word.
Select the entire paper by pressing Ctrl+a (Select All)
Now from the Home Ribbon > Paragraph Group, click on the line spacing
icon (Fig. 2.29) and select 2.0 for double-spacing
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The traditional indent (the First line indent) is commonly used for the first line of paragraphs—
where the margin is set in a few spaces from the rest of the paragraph (Fig. 2.31A).
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Click at the beginning of the first line of the first paragraph of the Abstract
on page 1 (immediately ahead of the words “The teaching profession…” at
the beginning of the next line after the Abstract header)
Hold down the Shift key and click again at the end of the Abstract in order to
highlight all the Abstract text
Now, on the left side of the ruler bar at the top of the document, position the
tip of the mouse arrow on the First Line Indent marker (the upper marker)
(see Fig. 2.30 on the previous page), hold down the mouse button and drag
this First Line Indent marker to the right a ½ inch (to the ½" hash mark),
then click anywhere to remove the highlighting
Notice how Word indents only the first line of each of the two paragraphs in the Abstract. This
makes it easier to tell where one paragraph begins and another ends.
Pages 3 through 5 of the Term Paper document have 13 numbered sections which discuss each
of the skills or concepts in the Table on page 2. In the next exercise, you are going to indent the
first line of all the paragraphs on pages 3 through 5. Fig. 2.32 illustrates what you need to do.
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Position the cursor at the start of line 3 of the second numbered section—the
sentence that begins: “Evaluation involves keeping current….”
Hold down the Shift key, and click immediately before the number “3” that
starts the next numbered section
This selects all the commentary in the second numbered section on page 3.
Now, in the ruler bar, drag the First Line Indent marker over to the right (to
the ½" hash mark), just as you just did for the previous section
Continue in the same way and change the First Line Indent for the remaining
paragraphs in sections 3 through 13 on pages 3, 4, and 5 of the Term Paper
document (but do not indent the numbered lines that begin each section and
don’t do anything with the Bibliography section just yet)
This task won't take you long. You might be thinking to yourself: “Why the heck is the lesson
making me do this over and over again?” Well, as any teacher knows, practice makes perfect, and
by the time you’re finished with this tutorial, you’ll feel pretty pleased with what you’ve learned,
so stay with it, OK?
When you are done with this exercise, hit Ctrl+s to save the work completed
to this point
Hanging indents
There are many occasions when it is useful to indent parts of your text using hanging indents. A
hanging indent is where the second and subsequent lines of a paragraph of text are indented to the
right of the first line. For example, you may want to make a list of points with a "bullet" at the
beginning of each point, like this:
Don't settle down at the computer until you have carefully planned what you want
to do. If you plan ahead you will be sure to do a better job and save yourself a
whole bunch of time!
or like this:
Don't forget to clean your teeth and make your bed after you've had your breakfast
every morning!
With the text aligned evenly inside the bullet. Bulleted and numbered text is easy to do with
the bulleting and numbering tools built into the word processing software. But it is also
important to know how to use the indent markers to create hanging indents that do not
involve the use of bullets.
For example, hanging indents are used when you write a paper that includes a list of
sources cited, as illustrated in Fig. 2.33.
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Notice that indentation has not yet been used for the Bibliography section, but it should be because
it is standard practice. Without hanging indents as illustrated in Fig. 2.33 above, it would be
difficult to determine where one reference ends and another begins, especially in a long list of
references. Thus, your next task is to use hanging indents to indent this last section of the paper.
Highlight all the references by clicking at the beginning of the first reference
(not the References header), then hold down the Shift key and click again
after the last reference
Position the tip of the mouse arrow on the Hanging Indent marker (the lower
of the two triangular-shaped markers), and drag this Hanging Indent marker
across ½” (4 hash marks) to the right, then let go of the mouse button
When you let go of the mouse button the References section will be adjusted and should now look
like Fig. 2.31B a couple of pages back. Notice how the references are nicely indented after the first
line. That's just the way it should be.
To reinforce this skill, you are now going to work your way once again through pages 3 through
5, creating a hanging indent for each of the thirteen numbered and underlined concepts and skills.
You are going to apply a hanging indent of just ¼”. Let’s do the first one together so you can see
what is required. Fig. 2.34 illustrates how each numbered skill or concept looks when you’re done.
¼” hanging indent
Fig. 2.34 Hanging indents for the numbered items in the Term Paper
Position the cursor immediately before the section number “1.” at the top of
page 3
Use the tip of the mouse pointer to drag the Hanging Indent marker over to
the right just 2 hash marks (¼”)
That’s all there is to it. Notice how the hanging indent improves the appearance of those numbered
underlined sentences.
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Complete the same task for the remaining 12 numbered items on pages 3
through 5 so they end up looking like those illustrated in Fig. 2.34—save your
work when you are done
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Next, in the Layout Ribbon > Page Setup Group click on the Columns icon
(Fig. 2.36) and, in the Columns pop-up menu, click on Two columns
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Fig. 2.37 The Navigation frame for the Find function (Ctrl+f)
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In the Navigation box, type the search string concepts and skills
Word goes ahead and immediately finds every iteration (example), wherever the string (phrase)
occurs in the document—in this case 10 times. Sometimes you may want to search for a string that
has a mix of lower and uppercase letters; for example, a string such as the word Courses (with a
capital or uppercase “C”). In this case you want to tell Word to Match Case. Fig. 2.38a and 38b
illustrate how you do this.
Click on the
small down Then, in the
arrow at the end menu of Find
of the Navigation tools, click on
box to bring up Options… to
the menu of Find bring up the
tools Find Options
dialog box
Click to put
a check
mark/tick in
the Match
case box
Fog 2.38b Matching upper and lower case characters in a search string
Now, in the Term Paper document, try searching for the following strings,
then write down on a piece of paper how many times each string occurs (it may
be that a string may occur 0 (zero) times—answers in footnote1):
Provide guidance
teacher’s career
problem-solving
student
learning activities
Evaluation
Evaluation involves
multimedia
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Now complete the following search and insert exercise. You are going to add a sentence to
the Term Paper document. The proposed new sentence is as follows:
Teachers cannot be expected to use computer-based learning systems
effectively unless they acquire these skills and assimilate these
concepts.
You are going to use Ctrl+f to find the location in the Term Paper where the sentence is to be
inserted. Before selecting and entering a string of text for a search, you should take a moment to
think about what the string of text should be. The new sentence is to be inserted immediately after
the sentence that ends with the phrase ‘computerized classroom.’
The phrase ‘computerized classroom.’ is long enough to perhaps be unique. It may well find
the exact location you’re looking for. If you simply typed “classroom” you would find many
“hits”—places in the document where the word “classroom” occurs (8 hits in all). The point is that
you are trying to find a unique phrase which will take you directly to the point in the document
where you want to add the new sentence.
This trick of finding a unique phrase for a search is useful for other purposes when you are
working at a computer, such as when you are trying to find information about a topic using Google.
For example, as a teacher you may suspect that one of your students has plagiarized for a paper
you have assigned them to write. If you extract a suspect phrase from the student’s paper and use
it for a search in Google, you can often quickly find out you if your suspicions are correct.
Here then are the steps to quickly locate and add the proposed new sentence (see highlighted
text above) in the specified location in the Term Paper document.
It is often best to start a search at the beginning of a document if you are not absolutely sure
where the text you want to find occurs.
In case you are not already there, use the right scroll bar to scroll to the top
of the first page of the Term Paper document
Place the insertion point cursor at the top of the paper, immediately ahead
of the title FIRST THINGS FIRST
Press Ctrl+f to activate the Find function (or in the Home Ribbon > Editing
Group select Find)
Word now displays the Navigation frame on the left side of the window (see Fig. 2.37 on age 71
above). Word now needs you to enter the search string.
Start typing computerized classroom. (including the period/full stop) in the
Navigation box, but watch what happens as you type each character of the
phrase—as you type the first ‘c’, Word immediately highlights every ‘c’ in the
document and tells you there are hundreds of matches; as you continue and
type ‘co’, Word highlights the smaller subset of that sequence of characters,
and so on
Continue to type one more character at a time, checking the count in the
Navigation window at left, until there is only 1 result found—surprisingly, for
this document and for this search, a unique match will be identified after you
have typed only the characters computeriz
How about that! Look now at the highlighted phrase in the document and you will see that this
small string of characters is indeed the location of the phrase you’re looking for (‘computerized
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classroom.’). This means that, while you may have a search string in mind, you only need to type
as much of the string as is necessary to identify the unique text you are looking for.
If you mis-typed the search text so that Word is unable to find it, the search will conclude with
“No Matches” and you would have to try again with a corrected sequence of characters or another
phrase altogether.
Once the search is successful, the text you have been looking for is selected (highlighted) in
yellow (Fig. 2.39).
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Word presents the Find and Replace dialog box with the Replace tab selected in the set of index
options and the cursor waiting in the Find what: data entry box (Fig. 2.40).
Fig. 2.40 Replace options in the Find and Replace dialog box
Fig. 2.41 Match Case option (not necessary for this search)
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In the Find what: box type concepts and skills and, in the Replace with: box,
type concepts and skills, then click on the Find Next button
Word goes to work and highlights the first occurrence of "concepts and skills". If you cannot see
this highlighted phrase on your screen, it may be because the Find and Replace dialog box is
covering it. You can move the window around on the screen by dragging on the light pink Title
Bar at the top of the Find and Replace dialog box.
The basic options available to you in the Find and Replace dialog box are as follows. You can:
Click on the button to Replace All occurrences of the search text in the entire document;
click on the button to Replace only the one occurrence of the search string;
or, you can simply click on the button to Find the Next occurrence of the search string
without changing anything.
You should be wary of telling Word to Replace All occurrences of a piece of text unless you
are absolutely sure you know what you are doing. It is surprisingly easy to specify a string of
characters that may not be quite what you had in mind. By telling Word to Replace All occurrences
of a string of text you might result in your document being peppered with unwanted changes.
So be careful! Suppose, for example, you told Word to correct a misspelling where you spelled
receive with the "i" before the "e" ("recieve"). You specify "ie" as the search text, and innocently
tell Word to replace all occurrences of "ie" with "ei" (because you want to correct the misspelling
of “receive.” Well, as it happens, in the Term Paper document the character sequence "ie" occurs
many times (about 50 times!) in all kinds of innocent words (technologies, belief, etc.)!
Should they all be replaced with "ei"? Clearly not. Even “cie” occurs 8 times in the Term
Paper, and so on. So you have to be careful (1) to specify the search text that will get you right
away the result you want, and (2) work your way through the document selecting only the iterations
of the string you want to replace. In our hypothetical case you would type the entire incorrectly
spelled word "recieve." Then you could safely tell Word to replace all occurrences of it with the
correctly spelled word “receive.”
Back to our example, however, the search string (“concepts and skills”) is sufficiently unique
for you to go ahead and Replace All occurrences.
Click on the Replace All button
Word may take a few seconds to make the changes, depending on how fast your Windows
computer is. Soon you will see a window telling you how many occurrences of the search string
were replaced. So… How many were there? There should have been 10 (including the first
occurrence already found).
Click on OK, then close the Find and Replace dialog box, then press Ctrl+s
to save the changes you have made
Scroll to the Table on Page 2. Why does it still say ‘Skill or Concept’ for the Table title? Why
wasn’t it changed to ‘Concept or Skill’? See the footnote for the answer.1
In the course of completing this exercise you may have noticed some spelling and typo errors
in the text. Later in this lesson you will use the Spelling and Grammar feature to clean up the
document. The more you use the word processor, the more you will appreciate the power of the
simple word processing tools such as the ones you have just learned. The best, however, is yet to
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come and, no matter how good you think your word processing skills are, you should always keep
an open mind about learning more.
1 Recall that if you click on the right mouse button while pointing at an object, Word will bring up a context menu
which will allow you to access the cut and paste functions.
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Press Ctrl+x (or from the Home Ribbon > Clipboard Group click on the
scissors icon to Cut the paragraph out of the paper)
Cutting text removes the selected text from the document and transfers it to the clipboard. Once it
is on the clipboard you can move it anywhere you want, either within the same document, or to
some other document altogether.
You are now going to paste the "Training is thus..." paragraph (currently on the clipboard)
immediately after the last paragraph, but before the Bibliography section.
Scroll to the last page of the document and locate the word: Bibliography, look
at the two columns of text above the Bibliography, and click to position the
cursor right at the end of the paragraph that ends “…professional work with
children.”
Hit the Enter key and then hit Ctrl+v (or from the Edit menu select Paste)
If necessary, make any corrections to spacing and so forth
Word completes the paste process in no time at all by pasting the section from the clipboard back
into the document at the insertion point. Now you have a strong concluding statement before your
References are listed in the Bibliography.
Click to position the insertion point cursor immediately before the section title
Bibliography and hit the Enter key to space down and visually separate the
Bibliography at the end of the Term Paper
When you are satisfied that all is well, press Ctrl+s again to save the changes
you have made thus far
Copying text within a document
The process of copying text is almost identical to that of moving text. You select the section of
text you want to copy in the same way as you did when you cut text in the previous exercise. But
now you will have Word paste a duplicate of it somewhere else in the document, leaving the
original text where it is.
For example, let us say you want to copy the title lines of the paper so that they occur not only
at the top of the first page but also at the top of Page 2. The title lines include the two title lines
followed by the author's name—three lines in all. Follow these steps to place a copy of the title
lines at the top of Page 2.
Position the insertion point cursor at the top of the paper immediately before
the title First Things First
Hold down the Shift key while you click immediately before the Abstract
section header (thus selecting the first 4 lines on page 1, including the blank
line after the author’s name)
Press Ctrl+c to copy the selected text to the clipboard
Notice that the original text is still in place—you haven't cut it from the document. All you have
done is transfer a copy of the text to the clipboard.
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Now scroll to the top of the second page of the document and click to position
the cursor at the top of this second page (immediately before the section
header “ISTE Foundational concepts and skills”)
Press Ctrl+v to paste the title lines from the clipboard
Word instantly copies the title lines at the top of page 2.
Scroll down the page (page 2) to check the effect of the copy operation
Uh-oh, look at the Table on page 2. The end of it has slipped down onto page 3 as a result of the
copying of the Titles to the top of page 2. That’s easy enough to fix.
Highlight the 13 Concepts and Skills listed in the table (From ‘Demonstrate
the ability…’ all the way down to ‘…learner and the educator.’), then change
the font pt size from 12 pt to 10 pt
Press Ctrl+s again to save the changes
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First put the cursor at the beginning of the Term Paper document then, in the
Review Ribbon > Proofing Group click on Spelling & Grammar (Fig. 2.42)
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Fig. 2.43 The Tight Text Wrap tool in the Picture toolbar
If you don’t see the handles around the “T” (Fig. 2.43 above), first click on the
picture of the “T” to select it
1 Later, in Lesson 3, you’ll learn how to use Word’s built-in tool for doing Drop Caps.
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In the Picture Tools > Format Ribbon > Arrange Group, click on the Wrap
Text tool (Fig. 2.43) and, from the drop-down menu of Text Wrapping options,
select the Tight option
That's all there is to it! The first letter of the first sentence of the Abstract is now neatly wrapped
around by the text, adding a touch of visual interest to the page. There is one small problem you
may still have to fix, though. The section header “Abstract” has been pushed over to the right by
the graphic T. Here’s how you can fix that.
Click on the “T” graphic to select it (the handles will be around it) then hit the
down arrow key in the lower right of your keyboard a couple of times to
nudge the graphic down till the word Abstract is once more aligned to the
left margin of the page and the top edge of the “T” graphic is aligned with
the text on the first line of the Abstract, then Save your work
Use these up/down/left/right arrow keys any time you need to adjust the exact location of a graphic
on the page. Now it's your turn. Fig. 2.44 shows you what the rest of this exercise entails.
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There will be thirteen letter graphics in all—one for each concept or skill.
Save your work when you are done
Word has a tool called Drop Caps for inserting large characters at the beginning of paragraphs. It
has fewer artistic options than what you have learned above, but it is easy to apply and you can
play with the look and feel by trying out different fonts, font sizes, and font colours. Check it out
in the Insert Ribbon > Text Group.
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In the Home Ribbon > Font Group, change the pt size to 16 pt, select
boldface, in the Home Ribbon > Paragraph Group select the Centered
option, then type Table of Contents
Hit Enter twice, then select Left justify for the items that go in the Table of
Contents and change the font pt size to 12 pt
Move the Left Indent Marker to the ½” hash mark on the ruler, then type
Abstract for the first item in the TOC
Now you need to set a Tab Stop for the right edge of the TOC where you want all the page numbers
to line up on the right. You also want what are called “dot leaders” to run across the page to visually
connect the TOC item with its page number (see Fig. 2.45 on previous page).
On the Tab Stop tool (over on the far left of the Ruler bar), click twice to
change the Tab stop to Right Tab, then at the 6” hash mark click once on the
Ruler bar to place a Right Tab Stop there (see Fig. 2.45 again)
Now, with the tip of the mouse pointer positioned on this Right Tab Stop at
the 6” hash mark, double click on the Tab Stop to bring up the Tabs dialog
box (Fig. 2.46)
In the Leader
section, click in
the radio
button next to
2, click on the
Set button, then
click on OK
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across the page to the correct page number relative to the item in the Table of
Contents to which it refers)
Type the page number 1 and hit Enter
Now type up the rest of the TOC as per Fig. 2.45 on page 83 above.
Move the left indent marker to the 1” hash mark for the 13 Concepts or
Skills, and then move the left indent marker back to the 1/2” hash mark for the
final Bibliography item
Save the document when you’re done creating the TOC
Backing up your Term Paper document
You should know how to do this by now, but if you need a refresher, here are the steps.
Go to File > Save As > Computer > Browse > USB drive > Work Files for
Office 2016 > Data Files > name the document Term Paper Backup > click
on Save
Printing the document
At some convenient time1, print out a draft copy of the entire Term Paper document. Carefully
proofread the printed copy of the paper. Have a dictionary handy. Any words you don't understand,
look them up; extend your vocabulary. Use a pen with some color other than black to correct any
errors you spot that were not picked up by the spelling checker. Go back to the Word document,
correct any errors you find, save the document again, and print a final letter-quality ("Best")
version to present to your instructor.
LOOKING BACK
You have practiced using several new features of Word. The Find and Replace, Cut and Copy text
functions extend the range of tools at your disposal as you go about the process of creating written
documents. You also learned how to format your text, taking advantage of all the features that
enhance the appearance of your documents, features that are so easy to implement now that you
know how.
The Term Paper document now looks quite professional. The important awareness you should
get from this tutorial is that you have a tool in Word which can greatly enhance your ability to
produce quality documents of all kinds—flyers, correspondence, papers, newspapers, ditto
masters, and on and on.
Think of the effect on your students, too. A major objective for you as a teacher is to create
and sustain an environment in which your students will be motivated to learn. Software such as
Word 2016 can surely help you in this task.
Many users of word processors are content to use the computer like a glorified typewriter. To
some extent this is understandable since, inevitably, there is a learning curve involved in mastering
more advanced skills. Now that you have completed this tutorial, however, remember where you
learned each of these new functions. Practice them whenever you use the word processor. Practice
makes perfect, and in no time at all you will be able to set these tutorials aside. You can enjoy the
1 It may not be convenient to run off a copy of the document during a lab session when other students in your class
may be waiting in line for the printer. Also, if you are using your own printer at home and it’s an inkjet printer, you
may want to save ink on the draft copy by using the Quick Print option in the Print Preferences.
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thrill of teaching these skills to your students, thus putting into their hands the tools to grow as
creative writers. Then, indeed, as in so many other ways, you will "touch their future," because
good communication skills are absolutely the key to success in this Information Age.
LOOKING FORWARD
Lesson 6 will give you the opportunity to further practice your word processing skills by
integrating them with other Office components. In Lesson 3, however, you will move on to learn
more about the Office drawing tools.
You should be starting to feel comfortable using the computer. No doubt you find some of the
work tedious, especially that process of backing up all your data. This is because you are learning
the computing skills. When you become proficient with the hardware and software, you will find
that you can complete your work quickly and be more productive with regard to many of the
activities of your profession. You should indeed by now be striking out on your own, already using
Word to support your work in the classroom.
As a teacher you have a responsibility to establish the best possible learning environment for
your students. The best teachers lead by example. If you have worked your way through the first
two of these tutorials you have increased the chances that your students will benefit from an
enhanced learning environment, because your increased facility with, and enthusiasm for, the
computer as a mind tool will inevitably overflow into your classroom. Well done!
SKILL CONSOLIDATION
Complete as many exercises as you can so as to reinforce what you have learned in Lesson 2.
1. Load the document Term Paper onto the Desktop.
Use the Find and Replace function to locate the words "electronic bulletin board"
Use the Find and Replace function to replace every occurrence of "conferences" with
"meetings"
Boldface the title lines at the top of the first page (before the Abstract)
Move a complete section of your choice so that it follows the section it currently precedes.
2. Underline the word "computer" wherever it appears in the document Term Paper, then adjust
the line spacing to 1½ for the entire Term Paper document.
3. Open up a new word processor document. Call the document "Format Options." Type in a list
of at least ten words, and select a different option for each one: normal, italics, boldface, font
size of 14, font size of 20, centered, underlined, and any combination of these you want. Proof
read it, correct any errors, then print out the document.
4. Work your way through the tutorial on pp. 85-89 which will help you create the Courseware
Evaluation Template illustrated in Fig. 2.42A and 2.42B on pages 77 and 78.
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