0201 Microsoft Word 2013 Tabs Tables and Graphics
0201 Microsoft Word 2013 Tabs Tables and Graphics
Course Objectives
Section specific formatting
Insert and modify tabs
Insert and modify tables
Insert objects and pictures
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Table of Contents
Document sections
Document sections can be used to control page layout settings like margins, orientation and size
and are also useful way points for header and footer settings like page numbering.
OR
Add headers
Tabs
A tab stop is a marker set in the document ruler for text alignment using the TAB key on the
keyboard. The different tab stops can be set and viewed on the ruler, or the paragraph group
dialog box on the ribbon or within a style for consistency and control.
1. Go to “Incredible Coincidences”
2. Go to the paragraph that begins “They
were all nominally born…”
3. Find the word China at the end of the
paragraph
4. Click at the end of the word China.
5. Press the enter or return key on the
keyboard to create an empty paragraph
to localise the tab stops
Modify style
1. Click Go to Footer
2. Right click > Modify the Footer style in
the Styles group
3. Click Format > Tabs
4. Select the existing 8cm tab and type
8.5cm
5. Click Set
6. Select the existing 16cm tab and type
17cm
7. Select the old tab stops and remove
them with the Clear button
8. Click OK to update the style
Tables
Draw a table
In section “The Founders”:
1. Click Table > Draw Table on the Insert
tab
The cursor will become a pencil.
View Gridlines
Gridlines show non-printing table borders.
Wrapping will alter the way your object interacts with text
and other document objects.
The file type will determine which editing tools are enabled.
Freeform shapes
1. Select a curve or freeform line shape
2. Click to place progress markers
3. Double click to close the line
You can also enclose solid shapes by double clicking the
end point over the starting point.
Edit shape
Reusable content
There are a range of reusable document elements made up of text and objects. They are stored in
the Building Blocks Organizer including user defined Quick Parts.