Enhance your Microsoft Office Word skill by following this tutorial

1. Typing a simple
instruction
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2. what you'll learn
● How to create a simple instruction
– A “how to make pineaple juice” instruction
– Real-life examples
● Lessons
– Reapplying basic Microsoft Word skills
– Using numbered and bulleted lists
– Working with font formating, paragraph and alignment
– How to preview and print a document
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3. how should we start?
● Open a new file
● Save it as 'Recipe'
● Identify the style of the given text
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4. before you type
● What are the best font faces?
– Times New Roman
– Arial
– Verdana
● What is the usual size?
– Anything from 10 to 12 for body text
– Something slightly bigger, bolder for titles, headings
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5. more about the body
● Paragraph 1
– Header
● Paragraph 2
– Title 2
● Paragraph 3
– Ingredients
● Paragraph 4
– Instruction
● Paragraph 5
– Class´s Schedule
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6. Exercise > header and title
● Type out your header
– Font size 16
– Bold
– Underline
– Italic
– Align Center
● Type out your title
– Font size 14
– Underline
– Align Center
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7. Exercise > ingredients and instruction
● Type out the ingredients
– Font size 12
– Align center
– Font color -: Blue
–
● Type out the instruction
– Font size 12
– Align left
– Line spacing -: 1.5
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8. exercise > numbering
● You can list paragraphs,
sentences and important
points using numbers
● To enable numbering, Format
-> Bullets and Numbering
– look for a shortcut on the Formatting
Toolbar!
– Bullets / Numbering will stay on when
you move onto a new paragraph /
sentence / point
– Use numbering to number your 2nd, 3rd
and subsequent paragraphs
● Use indentation to format
paragraphs!
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9. exercise > bulleted lists
● Similar to numbering, we can also use bulleted lists
● For example, in paragraph 2, it is best to display the
date, venue and time in the following format
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10. intro to table
● For the 4th paragraph, create a table that shows the
schedule of cooking class
● For example,
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11. exercise > add table
● Adding a table using
the menu
● Adding a table using
the toolbar
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12. exercise > working with table
● To work on a table
– click on a table
– make sure cursor is inside the table
– the cursor will always be in a cell
– you can start typing in the cell!
● To move to another cell
– just click on another cell, OR
– press TAB
● Type out the schedule of program activities
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13. exercise > modifying tables
● You can do various tricks to tables
– Insert/Delete/Select rows/columns
● Table -> Insert/Delete/Select
– Split cells
● Table -> Split Cells
– Change table style
● Table -> Table AutoFormat
– Autofit table to its contents
● Table -> AutoFit
– Make your own style
● Format -> Borders and Shading
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14. exercise > modifying cells
● Select certain cells, and
right-click
– Merge few cells
– Change text direction in cells
(left to right, right to left, up,
down)
– Cell alignment (left, center,
right, top, middle, bottom)
● Resizing using the
mouse
– Move the borders around
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15. exercise > spelling and grammar
● If you type in
English, you can use
Word built-in
Spelling and
Grammar tool
– Tools -> Spelling and
Grammar
● On spelling error
– Ignore
– Change
● Remember to check
this box for
grammar check!
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16. exercise > check all the time
● You can set Word to
always check your
spelling and
grammar
– Tools -> Options ->
Spelling & Grammar
– Misspelled words and
grammatically incorrect
phrases will be
automatically underlined
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17. exercise > print preview
● Before we print our
document, it's good to
preview the 'estimated'
printout
● File -> Print Preview
● You can zoom in and out
to judge how it will look
on paper
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18. exercise > print
● To print
– File -> Print
● Basic things to
play around
– Select printer
– Number of copies
/ sets
– Specific pages to
print
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