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Typing a letter
We 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 1
1. 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 Rogers
6. Press Enter twice to move
insertion point down two lines
7. 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 resume
29. 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 Enter
Notice that nothing is underlined.
Put spell checker back on.
8. Click Tools
9. Click Options
10. Click box in front of Check
spelling as you type.
11. Click OK
12. 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.
