DAY 2 - Extra Practice - Tabs

This task uses tab stops to control the layout of information on the page.

1. Open a new document.

2. Set a left tab at 6cm and a centre tab at 11cm.
3. Type the headings shown below (Hotel, Location and Rating) using tabs to place Location at 6cm and
Rating at 11cm.
4. Press the Enter key to move to the next line, and add the hotels listed:
Hotel Location Rating
Holiday Inn Bristol ***
The Hilton London *****
The Gloucester Bath ****
The Hostel Cambridge *
Wellington’s Coventry ***

5. Now adjust the tab positions to 7cm and 13cm respectively.

6. Save your work as hotel.doc in your document folder or your USB.
Task 5 – Styles
1. Open a new blank document. Display the Styles and Formatting task pane. What styles are
listed for this document?
2. Now open the flyer.doc file. How many new styles are there compared to the blank
document?

Task 6 – Applying styles

1. Open the file flyer.doc.
2. Apply the style Title to the document title European Computer Driving Licence
at UCL.
3. Apply the style Quote to the first paragraph Maybe you are nervous...
4. Select the three headings: The Qualification for You, What is the ECDL?
and A Baseline Skills Qualification
(use Ctrl+click to select the three headings at the same time). Apply the Heading 1 style to
these headings.
5. Apply the style Heading 2 to the three sub-headings: The Seven ECDL modules, How
to Register and Other Useful Sites.
6. Apply the style List Bullet to the list of seven ECDL modules.
7. Apply the character style www to the three Web addresses found in this document.
8. Apply the style Indent to the paragraphs under the heading How to Register. Has the
www style applied to the web address www.ucl.ac.uk/is/training/ecdl.htm
been retained. Why?

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Task 7 – Templates
1. Create a new template based on the Normal template, with the following settings:
§ Add a header to include the text University of London.
§ Add a footer with centred page numbers.
§ In the body of the document, apply the Heading 1 style to the first paragraph.
2. Save the template in the default location with the name basic-template.
3. Close the template.
4. Create a new document based on your template and type a heading into the first line – it
should be formatted using the Heading 1 style.

Task 8 – Tables
1. Create a new document, and insert a table with 4 columns and 3 rows.
2. Adjust the width of the columns:
Set Column 1 to 2.16 cm (1"),
Set Column 2 to 3.43 cm (1.5"),
Set Column 3 to 2.16 cm (1"),
Set Column 4 to 1.54 cm (0.6").
3. Save it as hotel2.doc.
4. Add the following data to the table.
Resort Hotel Rooms Rating
Bermuda Elbow Beach 300 *****
Gambia The Heights 204 ****

5. Modify the table to include an extra column between Rooms and Rating and an extra row at
the bottom. Enter the title Price £pppn, and enter the data as shown below.

Resort Hotel Rooms Price Rating

£pppn
Bermuda Elbow Beach 300 600 *****
Gambia The Heights 204 350 ****
India Fort Aguada 250 220 ****

6. Format all headings so they are bold and centred. Re-size columns where necessary to
accommodate the text.
7. Format the Rooms data and Price £pppn data so that the numbers are right aligned and
centre the stars in the Rating column.
8. Save changes.

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Task 9 – Autocorrect
1. Open a new document.
2. Turn off the AutoFormat feature that applies bullets automatically.
3. Create an AutoCorrect entry to replace an abbreviation of your name (e.g. use your initials)
with your full name.
4. Create an AutoCorrect entry to replace UCL with University College London. Why
might this not be a good idea?
5. Create an AutoText entry with the name mydetails like the example below substituting
your personal details as appropriate.
Joe Bloggs
Head of Sports
University College London
+44 (020) 7380 1111
[email protected]

6. Turn the automatic bullet feature back on.

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Further Exercises
Exercise 1 – Indents
1. Follow the instructions to create the document as shown below.
2. Use the Garamond font, point size 14 for the document.
3. Enter the heading and format it using bold.
4. Move to the line where the first heading Aims is positioned. Set the Hanging Indent marker on the ruler
bar at 5.5cm approximately.
5. Type the text Aims and press the Tab key once. Type the text shown. Notice that the text automatically
wraps to the new line.
6. Repeat Step 5 above for each of the headings shown.
Note: If you have the option Help For WordPerfect Users switched on, the left indent marker set in Step
4 does not carry down to the next paragraph.

7. Enter the following contact details at the bottom of the text:

For further details contact the course co-ordinator:
Jacqueline Heywood
Training House
Staffordshire
ST7 8RT
01234 456789
8. Format the text you have just entered in step 7 using bold and italic.
9. Insert a new title at the top of the document:
People Matter Training Courses Ltd.
10. Centre the heading, and format it using Helvetica Bold, 14 point. Place a double border box around the
title and shade the area using 10% grey.
11. Save the file as people.doc

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Exercise 2 – Decimal tabs
1. Create the table shown below using a decimal tab at 1cm, a left tab at 2.5cm and another decimal tab at
10.5cm.
2. Press the Tab key once and type 1. (remember the full stop), press the Tab key, type the programme
title Coronation Street (Mon) Granada, press the Tab key and type 19.55 (remember the
full stop).
3. Repeat this process for each programme title:

1. Coronation Street (Mon) Granada 19.55

2. Eastenders (Thur/Sun) BBC1 18.25
3. Last of the Summer Wine BBC1 18.07
4. Eastenders (Tue/Sun) BBC1 18.05
5. Coronation Street (Wed) Granada 16.35

4. Save the file as tab1.doc

Exercise 3 – Dot leader tabs

1. Create the table shown below using a right-aligned tab with a dot leader at 11cm.
2. Type the programme name, author and title, and format using bold and italics as shown.
3. Type the character name Compo press the [Tab] key once (notice as the dots appear) type Bill Owen
(notice as the text is forced to the left of the tab marker).
Repeat for each of the programme characters.
Last of the Summer Wine
by Roy Clarke

Who’s Looking after the Cafe Then?

Compo ................................................................. Bill Owen
Clegg ................................................................. Peter Salis
Foggy................................................................ Brian Wilde
Ivy ................................................................ Jane Freeman
Nora ...................................................................Kathy Staff
Wally ............................................................... Joe Gladwin
4. Save the file as tab2.doc

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Exercise 4 – Changing tab styles
1. Create the table shown below using a right tab at 4.5cm and left tabs at 5.5cm, 8cm and 10.5cm.
2. Type the heading Holiday Departures as shown and format it using bold.
3. Type the first line of column headings as shown, pressing the Tab key once between each entry. To
create the second line of headings, press the Tab key twice, type Time, press the Tab key once again
type Time again and then press Enter.
4. Leave one line space and type the flight details as shown. Remember you only need to press the Tab
key once between each column.
5. Save the file as tab3a.doc
6. Modify the layout by replacing the left tabs at 5.5cm and 8cm with decimal tabs at 6.5cm and 9cm. Make
sure you select the main body of the table only (i.e. from New York down) when you do this.
7. Save the modified file as tab3b.doc

Holiday Departures
Manchester to Nights Departure Return Ref
Time Time

New York 7 Fri 15.30 Fri 12.10 MANA06

Toronto 14 Sat 13.10 Sat 15.20 MANL58
Moscow 14 Fri 14.45 Fri 06.00 MANY37
Rome 7 Sun 16.15 Sun 11.10 MANT 11

Exercise 5 – Page layout

1. Open the file alice.doc in the r:\training.dir\word\getting-started folder.
2. Change the top and bottom margins to 3cm and the left and right margins to 3.5cm.
3. Insert a new page at the top of the document and type the following details:
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
by Lewis Carroll
Chapter XII
Alice's Evidence
4. Insert a header and footer in the document and select Different First Page.
5. Create a header to display on every page except the first page with the title of the book on the left-hand
side and the chapter number on the right-hand side. Format the text using the Bookman Old Style font,
11 pt, italic.
6. Create a footer to display on every page except the first page with the file name (from the Insert
AutoText button) on the left-hand side and the page number in the centre. Format the text using the
Bookman Old Style font, 11 pt, italic.
7. Change the paper size to A4.
8. Save the file.
9. Print Preview the document. How many pages long is it?
10. Select the first page only for printing, but do not click OK.

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Exercise 6 – Page layout and printing
1. Open the file history.doc created in the previous exercise.
2. Insert a subheading The 19th Century after the main heading and format this using the same font style
as the main heading – Bookman Old Style, point size 14, bold and italic.
3. Insert a page break after 1897 and before 1904. Insert another subheading – The 20th Century. Format
this in the same way as above i.e. Bookman Old Style, 14pt, bold, italic.
4. Create a header with your name on the right-hand side. Format the header using the Tahoma font, 10pt
and italicise the text.
5. Create a footer with the text University College London on the left-hand side. Insert the text Page and
the page number on the right-hand side. Format them like the header.
6. Print Preview the document, to ensure that the document is ready for printing, making any changes
where necessary. (Make sure none of the date headings have become separated from their respective
paragraphs and remove any extra line spaces).
7. Save the file with the name history1.doc.
8. Select the first page only for printing, but do not click OK.

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