Archive for the ‘Projects & Practice’ Category
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
These directions will give you the steps to add form fields (Content Controls) to a Word document. The final, filled-in document could be saved, printed or emailed.
First, if you don't see a Developer tab, that needs to be turned on. Go to Office button, Word Options, and click the Popular ...
Posted in Fields & Quick Parts, Practice, Printing, Projects & Practice, Tables, Templates, Word 2007 | 33 Comments »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Occasionally, you can run into text that is set up in tabbed columns, or with spaces between columns, or copied from a web page that would be easier to work with if it was set up as a table.
Example 1: Convert Tabbed Text to a Table
Start with a New, ...
Posted in Practice, Projects & Practice, Tables, Tabs & Indents, Word 2007 | No Comments »
Monday, April 21st, 2008
This exercise will let you practice some table techniques; resizing a table, merging cells, rotating text, applying a table format, turning on text wrapping for a table, and centering the table on a page.
The premise of the example is an organization that has a one-page promotional handout that includes ...
Posted in Page Formatting, Practice, Projects & Practice, Tables, Word 2007 | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
This will show you how to take the data table you save in Part 1 of this project and merge that data onto mailing labels.
One problem with labels is that people tend to generate the label layout, and then type many pages of mailing address on the labels. That ...
Posted in Labels & Mail Merge, Practice, Projects & Practice, Tables, Word 2007 | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
See Table Basics in Word 2007 to review table terminology and to see more detailed directions on inserting a table.
For the first part of this project, you will insert a table and type a few rows of mailing-list type information into it. You will also see how to insert and ...
Posted in Labels & Mail Merge, Practice, Projects & Practice, Tables, Word 2007 | 4 Comments »
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
A quick way to add a little graphic enhancement to a heading (or title) in a document is to add a bottom border to it.
As with all Word projects, it will work best if you type up your text first, and then apply any formatting (like borders).
Creating the Practice Word ...
Posted in Borders & Shading, Practice, Projects & Practice, Styles, Text Formatting, Word 2007 | No Comments »
Monday, April 7th, 2008
There is a PDF download available, Learning to Use Word 2007 - Poster Project.
It was written for users that are new to Word 2007 or those that haven't used formatting and graphics very much. It is 12 pages long, with clear directions and images to work from. It walks you ...
Posted in Bullets & Numbering, Clipart & Graphics, File Related, Practice, Projects & Practice, Text Formatting, Word 2007 | No Comments »
Monday, March 24th, 2008
Follow up to: Practice: Making Labels in Word 2007
Once you have a sheet of mailing labels created, here are a few things you can do to improve their appearance.
Remember that labels are laid out in a table. You will be using table formatting to change the labels.
Be sure to click ...
Posted in Labels & Mail Merge, Paragraph Formatting, Projects & Practice, Tables, Text Formatting, Word 2007 | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
In a long Word document you might need to have one or more pages that are a different orientation. Typically, most print documents are created in a portrait orientation. Being able to make one or more pages landscape allows you to insert something like a large table or chart that ...
Posted in Page Formatting, Practice, Projects & Practice, Sections, Word 2007 | 40 Comments »
