beginner word class_3

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Microsoft Word

Class Three

Typing letters and resumes, grammar and learning spell Checker

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Typing a letterWe will type a letter to show you how you can incorporate all the features we have studied.

This will also show you some of the formatting you must do to create a letter.

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Starting Word (Review)

1. Double Click the Microsoft Word icon on the main screen

Or

1. Click Start button

2. Click Programs

3. Click Microsoft Word

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Typing a Letter: Lab 11. Click the Align Right button

2. Type: today’s date

3. Press Enter on keyboard

4. Click the Align Left button

5. Type: Dear ABC Company:

6. Press Enter on keyboard

7. Press Enter on keyboard (want two blank lines)

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Typing a resume

You can create professional resume with word using centering, bold font and bullets.

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Typing a resume

1. Click New document button (top left corner looks like a little piece of paper below File)

2. Click the center align button.3. Click Font size drop down arrow

and change size to 20.4. Click B to turn on Bold.5. Type: Buck Rogers6. Press Enter twice to move

insertion point down two lines7. Click B again to turn off bold.8. Click Font size drop down arrow

and change size to 12. 9. Click Left align button

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Typing a resume cont.

9. Click U to turn on underline

10. Type: Objective:

11. Click U to turn underline off

12. Press space bar twice.

13. Type: Something…

14. Press Enter key twice

15. Click U to turn on underline

16. Type: Experience:

17. Click U to turn off underline

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Typing a resume

18. Press space bar once

19. Type: Year

20. Press tab key

21. Type: Library

22. Press tab key twice

23. Type Carlstadt

24. Press Enter (to go down one line)

25. Press Tab key

26. Click B to turn on bold

27. Type Librarian

28. Click B to turn off bold

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Typing a resume29. Press Enter key

30. Press Tab key

31. Click bullets button to turn on bullets

32. Type: Anything

33. Press Enter

34. Type: Anything

35. Press Enter

36. Type: Anything

37. Press Enter

38. Click bullets button to turn off bullets.

See how many steps it took to create the first part of a resume!

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Review

1. Delete key - To erase text on the right of the insertion point

2. Backspace - To erase text on the left of the insertion point

3. To highlight text you can use mouse by holding down left button while dragging over

words or

Hold down the shift key and use the right or left arrow keys to highlight text.

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Start a new page

Click the little icon below File that looks like a little sheet of paper

This starts a new blank document

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Dictionary and Grammar

Word has a built in dictionary and grammar checker.

The grammar and dictionary checker can be set to your specifications in the tools menu under options.

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Spell Checking

1. Click Review

2. Click Spelling & Grammar Tab

3. Click box to where it says Check Spelling as you type to take away the check mark.

4. Click OK on the bottom of window.

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Spell Checking cont.6. Type: Librarys are greeatta!7. Press EnterNotice that nothing is underlined. Put spell checker back on.8. Click Tools9. Click Options10. Click box in front of Check spelling as you type.11. Click OK12. Type the same sentence again: Librarys are greeatta!Notice the misspelled words are underlined in red

For spelllchecker to work you have to put a space after the end of the word. Spellchecker knows that is the end of the word.

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Spell Checker cont.

1. Click on word you want to change it to, in this case, the word correctly (see picture to the left, where the arrow is pointing)

2. Click Change button (circled in red, in picture to the left)

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Spell Checker cont.

1. Click on word you want to change it to, in this case, the word necessary (see picture to the left, where the arrow is pointing)

2. Click Change button (circled in red, in picture to the left)

3. Keep going and correcting words as you go.

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Spell Checker complete

1. Once you go through all the words, a pop-up window will appear stating “The spelling and grammar check is complete.”

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Adding words to the dictionary

1. Type: Linus and Lucy are brother and sostar.

2. Click on the spell check button.

3. For Linus, click Add to dictionary.

4. For sostar, find sister on the list and click change.

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Questions?

We learned a lot again today. Next week we have a refresher on saving documents.

And we learn more features of word, including how to print.