MICROSOFT LESSONS

Lesson 1: By Word You Are Saved

Activity 1: Using MS Word Like a Blackboard
Task: Lay out a Title Page with the following content without hitting the enter keys.
Project in TTL-1, Submitted by: (Your Name); Submitted to: Prof. Vicmar B. Solano
What to do: Double-click anywhere on the page and type desired word or words.

Activity 2: Creating Automatic Ññ in your Laptop

Task: Write the following names: Iñaki Nuño, Macario Cañola, SANTOS BEGOÑA
What to do: type D1 + alt + x = Ñ; type f1 + alt + x = ñ

Activity 3: Automatic Words or Letterheads

What to do:
a. Type the name of your school.
e.g. Capiz State University
b. Highlight "Capiz State University"
c. Click INSERT, QUICK PARTS, a menu
appears.
d. Click SAVE SELECTION TO QUICK
PART GALLERY.
e. The CREATE NEW BUILDING BLOCK
dialog box appears.
f. Type csu or any convenient initial you
can remember. Remember that csu
can be change to any initial you wish.
g. Click OK. The dialog box closes.
h. In your document, type “csu”.
i. Press F3. Your text should now
read: Capiz State University
Task: Follow the same process using your
complete name

Activity 4: Personalizing Numbered Lists

Objective: Make a numbered list with a blank line before the number.
______1. Your name, Course, Year/Section
______2. Larry Page
______3. Mark Zuckerburg
______4. Brendan Eich
______5. Tim Berners-Lee
______6. Bill Gates
What to Do: Type the list above without the numbers. Highlight your list. Click
numbering icon in paragraph ribbon, click DEFINE NEW NUMBER
FORMAT, type several lines before the number, click OK. Your work
should look like the list above.

Student Activity 1: Make demonstration videos of Activities 1-4. You are expected to use
your audio as you describe the processes involved. You may use BANDICAM
or any onscreen recorder. Send your work through PM. Ideally, the video
should be between 3 - 5 minutes. Save your video as “Yr/Sec, Family Name
& First Name – Video 1”

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Activity 5: Advance Highlighting, Copying and Pasting Techniques
Objective: Highlight the following words altogether as enumerated below
CPU Bit RAM ROM Storage
Bug Boolean Program Algorithm Input
Code File Data Cloud e-mail
Processor Modem Software Network internet
What to Do: Type the list above.

a. Highlight CPU, Bit, Ram, Rom, and Storage with just one click.
What to Do: left click along the line outside the margin
b. Highlight together Boolean, Software, and internet
What to Do: hold ctrl then double click on each item
c. Highlight together ROM, Algorithm, Cloud, and Network
What to Do: hold ctrl then double click on each item or hold alt+left click
then drag.
d. To copy or cut: Ctrl C or Ctrl X.
e. To paste: Ctrl V

Activity 6: Changing Hypertext to normal text

Hypertext are the annoying blue and underlined colored text that appears in items that
we copy. When online, you can click this text while pressing ctrl to follow its link.
Objective: Show the fastest way to remove hyperlinks from the paragraph below.
21st century skills comprise skills, abilities, and learning dispositions that
have been identified as being required for success in 21st century society and
workplaces by educators, business leaders, academics, and governmental
agencies. This is part of a growing international movement focusing on the
skills required for students to master in preparation for success in a rapidly
changing, digital society. Many of these skills are also associated with deeper
learning, which is based on mastering skills such as analytic reasoning,
complex problem solving, and teamwork. These skills differ from traditional
academic skills in that they are not primarily content knowledge-based.
What to Do: Copy the text above from this site -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century_skills. Remove the hyperlink.
First Solution: copy the item with hyperlinks and paste it. A paste option icon will
appear below the pasted item, left click it, a paste option ribbon will occur, left
click the icon with letter “A”

Paste option icon

Paste option ribbon

Second Solution: copy the item with hyperlinks, before pasting, left click the
arrowhead below the paste icon of the home ribbon, paste option ribbon will
appear, left click the icon with letter “A”

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 Third Solution: Copy the item with hyperlinks, and paste it. Right click on each
item with a hyperlink and click REMOVE HYPERLINK.
Proof: Take a video of what you have done for all three solutions and save it as ACTIVITY 6.

Student Activity: Make demonstration videos of Activities 5-6. You are expected to use your
audio as you describe the processes involved. You may use BANDICAM or
any onscreen recorder. Send your work through PM. Ideally, the video
should be between 3 - 5 minutes. Save your video as “Yr/Sec, Family Name
& First Name – Video 2”

Activity 7: Text Wrapping, Grouping and Editing Pictures

7.1 Objective: Show how to move pasted pictures anywhere in the document
What to Do: Click the picture. Click FORMAT, left click WRAP TEXT, chose an appropriate icon
for actions you want to happen. Move the picture to where you want to place it
on the page.

7.2 Objective: GROUP a set of pictures into one item

What to Do: First Solution: Paste at least four of your pictures on the page. Arrange pictures as
desired after you have WRAPPED them, left click the SELECT Arrow found in the
extreme right portion of the Home Menu, left click SELECT OBJECTS, highlight all
pictures by dragging the Arrow throughout the selected pictures, right click on the
mouse, a ribbon will appear, left click on the word “GROUP” and click again on the
word “GROUP” on the extended ribbon.
Second Solution: Paste at least four of your pictures on the page. Arrange pictures
as desired, highlight the items by clicking Ctrl A, left click the Paste Icon of the
Home Ribbon, left click Paste Special, left click “bitmap” or “picture enhanced
metafile”, crop picture as desired.

7.3 Objective: Edit pictures

What to Do: Left click on picture, left click Format, left click on Corrections or Color or Artistic
Effects and chose desired results in each of this buttons.
Exercise: Change Picture A to become almost like Picture B.
Picture A Picture B

Student Activity: Make a demonstration video of Activity 7. Use your personal pictures.
You are expected to use your audio as you describe the processes involved.
You may use BANDICAM or any onscreen recorder. Send your work
through PM. Ideally, the video should be between 3 - 5 minutes. Save your
video as “Yr/Sec, Family Name & First Name – Video 3”

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Activity 8: WordArt Optimized
What to Do: Left click Insert Toolbar, left click WordArt Ribbon, click on desired design, Type
text, edit font size using the Font Toolbar, edit fill and line colors using Word Art
Styles Toolbar, use advance editing using text effects button in the WordArt Styles
Toolbar.
To convert word art to image, copy or cut the image, click the arrow head in the
paste button, click Paste Special, click bitmap or Picture (Enhanced Metafile), then
apply Picture Styles. Note that Enhanced metafile images cannot be edited using
Picture Styles. You have to cut them and paste them as bitmap images so that they
can be edited with Picture Styles. Crop picture if necessary.

Exercise: Make a Text Design similar to the image at

the right. Use your Family Name as
Text. Tools used – WordArt Styles,
Text fill, Gradient, Text Outline, Paste
Special, Picture Styles)

Student Activity: Make a demonstration video of Activity 8. You are expected to use your
audio as you describe the processes involved. You may use BANDICAM or
any onscreen recorder. Send through PM your work. Ideally, the video
should be between 3 - 5 minutes. Save your video as “Yr/Sec, Family Name
& First Name – Video 4”

Activity 9: Important Shortcuts

What to Do: Describe what happens when you do the following shortcuts. (THIS WILL COME
OUT ON THE FINAL EXAM)

Type: =Rand(5,6) _____________________________________________

Note: use the result of rand to work with the rest of the tasks.

Mouse Shortcuts What happens

Double-click (on a word) ______________________________________________
Single-click (anywhere in a sentence)
+ Holding CTRL ______________________________________________
Triple-click (anywhere in a paragraph) ______________________________________________
Hold ALT key, then click and drag ______________________________________________
Keyboard Shortcuts Description
Text Editing and Formatting
* (highlight a word) ** highlight a sentence

Ctrl + Shift + W ** ______________________________________________

Ctrl + Shift + P* ______________________________________________
Ctrl + Shift + >* ______________________________________________
Ctrl + Shift + <* ______________________________________________
Ctrl + ] * ______________________________________________
Ctrl + [ * ______________________________________________
Ctrl + Shift + A ** ______________________________________________
Ctrl + Shift + K ** ______________________________________________
Ctrl + = * ______________________________________________
Ctrl + Shift + = * ______________________________________________
Ctrl + M ______________________________________________
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Ctrl + Shift + M ______________________________________________

Navigation
Ctrl + F ______________________________________________
Ctrl + H ______________________________________________
Ctrl + (up arrow) ______________________________________________
Ctrl + (down arrow) ______________________________________________
Ctrl + End ______________________________________________
Ctrl + Home ______________________________________________
F5 or Ctrl + G ______________________________________________
Opening, Closing, Saving and File Safety Commands
Ctrl + Z ______________________________________________
Ctrl + Y ______________________________________________
F12 ______________________________________________
Shift + F12 ______________________________________________
Alt + F4 ______________________________________________
Ctrl + W ______________________________________________
Ctrl + Alt +F2 ______________________________________________
Signs, Symbols and other characters
20B1 + alt + x ______________________________________________
20AC+ alt + x ______________________________________________
Ctrl + / + c ______________________________________________
Ctrl + ALT + r ______________________________________________
Other Commands
Alt + Shift + D ______________________________________________
Alt + Shift + T ______________________________________________
Alt + Tab ______________________________________________
ALT ______________________________________________
Ctrl + N ______________________________________________
Ctrl + O ______________________________________________
Shift + Alt ______________________________________________
Shift + F7 ______________________________________________
Windows Key + D ______________________________________________

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Lesson 1: Excel in Excel
Proof: Save all your works on a flash drive.

Activity 1: Numbering

Process 1

Process 2
Type “1” in a cell. In the cell below that, type “=”,
then the name of the cell where “1” is found, type
“+”, and press “enter.”

Number “2” should appear. Copy cell with “2” and

paste in the succeeding rows to get the rest of the
numbered list.

Activity 2: Combining Data In One Cell

A B C D
Surname First Name M.I. COMPLETE NAME
1 Probinsyano Cardo A. Probinsyano A. Cardo
2 Bulaga Eat F.
3 Bagani Cure G.

This is done by typing or clicking the cells and placing &

and " marks.
=A1&" "&B1&" "&C1

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=CONCATENATE(A1," ",B1," ",C1) will also get the same results

Activity 3: Inserting Paragraph Formats in Cells

End Result:
A B C D
To change the overall look of your document, choose new Theme 1
elements on the Page Layout tab. To change the looks available in the 2
Quick Style gallery, use the Change Current Quick Style Set command. 3
Both the Themes gallery and the Quick Styles gallery provide reset 4
commands so that you can always restore the look of your document 5
to the original contained in your current template. 6

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What to Do:
1. Before inserting a paragraph, highlight first the cells where you want to place the
paragraph.
2. Click MERGE cells in the File ribbon.
3. Paste your paragraph in the cell.
4. Click wrap text in the File ribbon.

Activity 4: Solving Grades: Creating Basic Excel Formalae

End Result:
A B C D F G H
1 Graded Items
Final
Students Per. Test Per. Test Per. Test Bulletin Remarks
Grade
2 30% 40% 20% Board 10%
3 Baste, Alex 90 92 90 90 90.8 passed
4 Law, Ay 87 87 95 92 89.1 passed
5 Li, Pat 86 86 88 86 86.4 passed
6 Ti, Cher 72 73 82 74 74.6 failed
7 Bibit, Baby 78 90 83 87 84.7 passed
8 Damgo, Dad 78 75 71 70 74.6 failed

Goal: Make formulae for Columns G and H

What to Do:
At G3 =B3*.30+C3*.40+D3*.20+E3*.10 then Enter
Copy and paste to other cells in the column
At H3 =IF(G3>=75, “PASSED”,”FAIL” Enter
Copy and paste to other cells in the column

Activity 5: Changing cell colors of failing grades

Goal: Automatic identification of failed grades.

A B C D F G H
1 Graded Items
Final
Students Per. Test Per. Test Per. Test Bulletin Remarks
Grade
2 30% 40% 20% Board 10%
3 Baste, Alex 90 92 90 90 90.8 passed
4 Law, Ay 87 87 95 92 89.1 passed
5 Li, Pat 86 86 88 86 86.4 passed
6 Ti, Cher 72 73 82 74 74.6 failed
7 Bibit, Baby 78 90 83 87 84.7 passed
8 Damgo, Dad 78 75 71 70 74.6 failed

What to Do:
1. Use the data and results of the Activity 4.
2. Highlight cells G3:G8.
3. In File ribbon click CONDITIONAL FORMATTING.
4. Click Highlight Cells Rules.
5. Click Less than…
6. Change the value to 75 in the box.
7. Enter
8. You can customize the text by clicking in the next cell.
Activity 6: Ranking Grade
Goal: Automatic identification of failed grades.

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 A B C D F G H I
1 Graded Items
Students Per. Test Per. Test Per. Test Bulletin Final Grade rank Remarks
2 30% 40% 20% Board 10%
3 Baste, Alex 90 92 90 90 90.80 1 passed
4 Law, Ay 87 87 95 92 89.10 2 passed
5 Li, Pat 86 86 88 86 86.40 3 passed
6 Ti, Cher 72 73 82 74 74.60 5 failed
7 Bibit, Baby 78 90 83 87 84.70 4 passed
8 Damgo, Dad 78 75 71 70 74.60 6 failed

What to Do:
1. Use the data of Activity 5.
2. Insert a column between Final Grade and Remarks and label it as Rank.
3. In H3 type the following or navigate using the cursor: =RANK.EQ(G3,G3:G9,0)
4. Highlight G3:G9 then press F4.
5. Your formula would then look something like this: =RANK.EQ(G3,$G$3:$G$9,0)
6. Copy H3 then paste to the remaining cells.

Student Activity: PM to me an excel file where you have done all 6 activities. Do the
activities separately by sheets. Save your file as “Family Name & First Name
Initial – Excel Files”

Lesson 3: Publishing With Publisher

Activity 1: Create a Newsletter
Things you need for the activity.
a. Two 300-350-word articles with the titles:
a. The Most Important Thing I learned in TTL 1
b. I Am More Than My Gadgets
Important Reminders:
a. The advantage of MS Publisher over MS Word in lay-out works is that each page is
independent from other pages; hence what you do in one page does not affect other
pages.
b. MS Publisher uses the same editing tools used by MS Word.
c. Text are placed in textboxes. Lay-outing is basically done by manipulating the size of the
textboxes.
What To Do:
1. Open Publisher
2. Click Page Design, click Guides. Under the Built-in Ruler Guides click 4 Columns with
Headings.
3. Make a Title Page in a Text box. The Title Page must have your Surname on it. Edit it as
desired.
4. Paste your article in the page and adjust by clicking and holding the textbox along the
guidelines. You may adjust the spacing of the article by clicking the arrow in the
paragraph menu and changing the values in line spacing to 0 in both spacing before and
after paragraphs and 1sp between lines. (See illustration below.)
5. If you look at the lower-right portion of the textbox, you will see a box with three dots in
it. It is an overflow Indicator. This shows that the box still has content on it. Click the
overflow indicator and your cursor becomes a pitcher. Move the pitcher slightly to the
right and left click. This creates a new text box with contains the continuation of the
whole article. Edit the size of the text box along the guidelines. Repeat the process until
you have four text boxes. Adjust the size of the text boxes until there is no more overflow
in the last box.
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6. Paste a related picture. Edit its size. The text will automatically adjust to your picture.
7. Add the title for your article using Word Art. Wrap text the title clicking on Tight and
adjust the size.
8. Use the same process to the next article.
9. You may change the font type and size of your text to make them fit the page. Ideally
font size should not be less than 9 for regular letters and not less than 10 for narrow
letters.

- overflow indicator
= paragraph menu

- pitcher

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Student Activity: PM to me an ACTUAL PUBLISHER FILE (do not send a pdf). Write your
own articles with these titles: a. The Most Important Thing I learned in
TTL 1, b. I Am More Than My Gadgets. Save your file as “Family Name &
First Name Initial – Publisher”

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Lesson 6: A Point for Powerpoint (BENCH Principle in Slide Presentation)
The Powerpoint is perhaps one of the MS programs that many student are quite familiar with.
Some students have even experimented with other slide presentation programs like the Prezi and Google
Slides.
The problem with slide presentation is not so much about the lack of skills among students but the
need to remember to certain principles to effectively use presentations in lectures.
The BENCH is a principle I personally created to remind students on how to make effective slides
and efficient slides.
The BENCH stands for Brevity, Economy of clicking, Navigability, Clarity and Harmony.
Brevity
 reminds you to summarize
 reminds you to use bullets
 reminds you to use the 6 X 7 Rule
Economy of Clicking:
 means that you should not use more than three clicks to finish a slide.
 this can be done by using timing options.
Navigability
 allows the user to freely move from one slide to another.
 This can be done by using hyperlinks.
Clarity
 Is the cardinal rule in all presentations
 To achieve clarity, mind your “font” – its type, size, color.
 Font Type must be READABLE rather than FANCY.
 Font Size must be between 24 to 80.
 Font Color must depend largely on the background color.
 Font Color consist mainly of fill and outline.
Harmony
 Harmony in presentations is achieved through consistency and order.
 A presentation is consistent when certain elements are maintained in all slides.
 A presentation has order when the content follows a logical organization.
Evolve
 Continue to improve your presentation skills
Summarize
 Recapitulate your discussion

Wait for a separate instruction for this activity.

ATTENTION: This lecture material will be included in the final exam.

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