Archive for the ‘Projects & Practice’ Category
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
This practice exercise will take you through the steps of making a custom footer (or header)and saving it as a building block in Word. There will be two distinct tasks accomplished: creating the footer and saving it as a building block. Creating the footer will go through where to find ...
Posted in Building Blocks, Customize, Headers & Footers, Page Formatting, Practice, Projects & Practice, Word 2007 | 4 Comments »
Monday, March 17th, 2008
A footer is the text that sits along the bottom margin that can repeat on every page of the document. It typically would hold the document title, page numbers, the print date, or a message like Draft or Internal Use Only. A footer is exactly the same as a header, ...
Posted in Building Blocks, Headers & Footers, Page Formatting, Practice, Projects & Practice, Word 2007 | 5 Comments »
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
This is going to be a simple walk-through of the steps - I think this is one of those things that is easier to learn by doing a few times, and each time you do it you'll build on your basic knowledge. So look at this as just being a ...
Posted in Photo, Projects & Practice, Windows XP | 22 Comments »
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Labels are pretty easy to make in Word. Even if you don't have actual labels to print right now, this lesson will take you through the steps. Here's how to make a full sheet of the same label:
Click on the Mailings tab.
In the Create group, click Labels.
Click the Options button. ...
Posted in Labels & Mail Merge, Practice, Projects & Practice, Tables, Word 2007 | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Margins are the space that surrounds a printout, between the text and graphics and the edge of the page. Basically, it creates a frame for the document. There is a Top, Bottom, Left and Right margin, and they can each be changed individually. A typical margin is one inch.
Changing ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Open Word 2007, and generate some paragraphs to work with. Do this by typing either:
=rand() (This will give you three paragraphs in English)
or
=lorem(4,5) (This will generate 4 paragraphs in Latin that are 5 sentences apiece.)
What you are going to do is apply each of the different indent styles ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
A Little Exercise with Tabs
Open Word, or start a new document.
Make sure the Tab button is on Left.
Click the 1" mark on the ruler; you should see the left tab.
Click on the Tab button to change the tab type to Center.
Click at the 3" mark to place a center ...
Posted in Paragraph Formatting, Practice, Projects & Practice, Tabs & Indents, Word 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Besides using the Bullets and Numbering buttons, a list can be started based on typed characters. To key-start basic bullets or numbering, start the list with one of the following:
*. will change to •.
1. will start a numbered list.
A. will start a lettered list.
All bullet or numbered lists can ...
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