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Microsoft Word Chapter 6

Microsoft Word Chapter 6. Creating a Professional Newsletter. Objectives. Create and format WordArt Insert a symbol in a document Insert and format a floating graphic Format a document in multiple columns Format a character as a drop cap Insert a column break Modify a style. Objectives.

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Microsoft Word Chapter 6

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  1. Microsoft Word Chapter 6 Creating a Professional Newsletter

  2. Objectives • Create and format WordArt • Insert a symbol in a document • Insert and format a floating graphic • Format a document in multiple columns • Format a character as a drop cap • Insert a column break • Modify a style Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  3. Objectives • Place a vertical rule between columns • Insert and format a text box • Copy and paste using a split window • Balance columns • Modify and format a SmartArt graphic • Add a page border Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  4. Starting Word • Start Microsoft Word 2007 as directed on page WD 389 Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  5. Setting Custom Margins • Display the Page Layout tab. • Click the Margins button on the Page Layout tab to display the Margins gallery • Click Custom Margins in the Margins gallery to display the Page Setup dialog box. If necessary, click the Margins tab in the dialog box • Type .75 in the Top text box to change the top margin setting and then press the TAB key to position the insertion point in the Bottom text box Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  6. Setting Custom Margins • Type .75 in the Bottom text box to change the bottom margin setting and then press the TAB key • Type .75 in the Left text box to change the left margin setting and then press the TAB key. • Type .75 in the Right box to change the right margin setting • Click the OK button to set the custom margins for this document Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  7. Setting Custom Margins Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  8. Changing Theme Colors and Fonts • Display the Home tab. Click the Change Styles button on the Home tab, point to Colors on the Change Styles menu, and then click Metro in the Colors gallery to change the document theme colors to Metro • Click the Change Styles button on the Home tab, point to Fonts on the Change Styles menu, and then click Aspect in the Fonts gallery to change the document theme fonts to Aspect Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  9. Inserting WordArt • Display the Insert tab • Click the WordArt button on the Insert tab to display the WordArt gallery • Click WordArt style 1, the style in the upper-left corner of the WordArt gallery, to display the Edit WordArt Text dialog box • Type Health Bits in the Text text box, as the WordArt text. Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  10. Inserting WordArt • Click the Font box arrow in the dialog box; scroll to and then click Brush Script MT, or a similar font, to change the font of the WordArt text • Click the Size box arrow in the dialog box; scroll to and then click 72 to change the font size of the WordArt text • Click the OK button to display the WordArt text in the document window Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  11. Inserting WordArt Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  12. Resizing WordArt • Drag the bottom-right sizing handle to the right and slightly downward until the WordArt size is similar to Figure 6–7 • If the values in the Shape Height and Shape Width text boxes are not approximately equal to 1.4" and 7", respectively, change their values so that the WordArt is similar in size to Figure 6–7 Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  13. Resizing WordArt Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  14. Changing the WordArt Fill Color • With the WordArt selected, click the Shape Fill button arrow on the WordArt Tools Format tab to display the Shape Fill gallery • Point to Gradient in the Shape Fill gallery to display the Gradient gallery • Click More Gradients in the Gradient gallery to display the Fill Effects dialog box. If necessary, click the Gradient tab in the dialog box • In the Colors area, click Two colors, which causes two separate color text boxes to appear in the dialog box Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  15. Changing the WordArt Fill Color • Click the Color 1 box arrow and then click Gold, Accent 3, Lighter 60% (third row, seventh column) in the color gallery • Click the Color 2 box arrow and then click Green, Accent 1, Darker 25% (fifth row, fifth column) in the color gallery • Click From center in the Shading styles area and then, if necessary, click the left variant in the Variants area • Click the OK button to change the colors of the WordArt Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  16. Changing the WordArt Fill Color Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  17. Change the WordArt Shape • Click the Change WordArt Shape button on the Format tab to display the WordArt Shape gallery • Click the Cascade Up shape in the WordArt Shape gallery to instruct Word to form itself into the Cascade Up shape Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  18. Change the WordArt Shape Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  19. Centering the Newsletter Title • Click the paragraph mark to the right of the WordArt text to deselect the WordArt and position the insertion point in the paragraph containing the WordArt • If necessary, display the Home tab, and then click the Center button on the Home tab to center the paragraph containing the WordArt Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  20. Bordering One Edge of a Paragraph • Click the Border button arrow on the Home tab and then click Borders and Shading in the Border gallery to display the Borders and Shading dialog box • Click Custom in the Setting area because you are setting just a top border • Scroll through the style list and click the style which has a thick middle line between two thin lines • Click the Color button arrow and then click Pink, Accent 2, Darker 50% (sixth column in the last row of Theme Colors) in the Color gallery • Click the Top Border button in the Preview area of the dialog box to show a preview of the selected border style • Click the OK button to place the defined border above the newsletter title Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  21. Bordering One Edge of a Paragraph Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  22. Clearing Format • With the insertion point positioned at the end of line 1 press the ENTER key • Click the Clear Formatting button on the Home tab to remove any existing formatting Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  23. Setting a Right-Aligned Tab Stop • Click the Bold button on the Home tab. Click the Font Color button arrow on the Home tab and change the font color to Pink, Accent 2, Darker 50%. Type Monthly Newsletter on line 2 of the newsletter • Click the Paragraph Dialog Box Launcher to display the Paragraph dialog box and then click the Tabs button in the Paragraph dialog box to display the Tabs dialog box • Type 7 in the Tab stop position text box, which is the location of the right margin • Click Right in the Alignment area to specify alignment for text at the tab stop Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  24. Setting a Right-Aligned Tab Stop • Click the Set button in the Tabs dialog box to set a right-aligned custom tab stop, which places the entered tab stop position, the number 7 in this case, in the Tab stop position list box • Click the OK button to place a right tab marker at the 7" mark on the ruler Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  25. Setting a Right-Aligned Tab Stop Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  26. Inserting a Symbol • Press the TAB key. Type Vol. 4 and then press the SPACEBAR • Display the Insert tab • Click the Symbol button on the Insert tab • Click More Symbols in the Symbol gallery to display the Symbol dialog box. • If Symbol is not the Font displayed in the Font box, click the Font box arrow in the dialog box and then scroll to Symbol and click it • In the list of symbols, if necessary, scroll to and then click the dot symbol shown in Figure 6–18 • Click the Insert button to place the dot symbol in the document to the left of the insertion point • Click the Close button in the Symbol dialog box Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  27. Inserting a Symbol Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  28. Entering Text and Adding a Border • Press the SPACEBAR. Type Issue 9 at the end of the issue information line • Display the Home tab. Click the Border button arrow on the Home tab and then click Bottom Border in the Border gallery to place a bottom border on the current paragraph using the same formats as the previously defined border Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  29. Entering Text and Adding a Border Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  30. Saving a Document • With a USB flash drive connected to one of the computer’s USB ports, click the Save button on the Quick Access Toolbar to display the Save As dialog box • Save the document on a USB flash drive with the file name, Health Bits Newsletter Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  31. Inserting Clip Art from the Web • Display the Insert tab. Click the Clip Art button on the Insert tab to display the Clip Art task pane. • In the Clip Art task pane, type caduceus in the Search for text box • Click the Go button to display a list of clips that match the description, caduceus • Scroll to and then click the clip art of the caduceus that matches the one in Figure 6–20. (If the clip art image does not appear in the task pane, click the Close button on the Clip Art task pane and then proceed to the shaded steps on the next page) • Click the Close button on the Clip Art task pane title bar to close the task pane Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  32. Inserting Clip Art from the Web Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  33. Resizing the Clip Art Image • Drag the top-right sizing handle inward until the size of the clip art image is similar to Figure 6–21 • If necessary, double-click the clip art image to display the Picture Tools Format tab. If the values in the Shape Height and Shape Width text boxes are not approximately equal to .67 each, change their values so that the clip art image size is similar to Figure 6–21 Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  34. Resizing the Clip Art Image Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  35. Formatting a Graphic as Floating • If necessary, double-click the clip art image to display the Picture Tools Format tab • Click the Text Wrapping button on the Format tab to display the Text Wrapping menu • In the Text Wrapping menu, click In Front of Text so that the image changes to a floating object that can be positioned in front of text on the page Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  36. Formatting a Graphic as Floating Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  37. Moving a Graphic • Point to the middle of the graphic, and when the mouse pointer has a four-headed arrow attached to it, drag the graphic to the location Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  38. Moving a Graphic Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  39. Flipping a Graphic • With the graphic still selected, click the Rotate button on the Format tab to display the Rotate gallery • Click Flip Horizontal on the Rotate gallery, so that Word flips the graphic to display its mirror image Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  40. Flipping a Graphic Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  41. Adjusting the Brightness of a Graphic • Click the Brightness button on the Format tab to display the Brightness gallery • Point to -10 % in the Brightness gallery to display a live preview of that decrease in brightness applied to the selected clip art image • Click -10 % in the Brightness gallery to darken the clip art image Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  42. Adjusting the Brightness of a Graphic Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  43. Clearing Format • Click at the end of line 2 (the issue information line) so that the insertion point is immediately after the 9 in Issue 9. Press the ENTER key • Display the Home tab. Click the Clear Formatting button on the Home tab to apply the Normal style to the location of the insertion point Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  44. Entering Text as a Heading Style • Click Heading 2 on the Home tab • Type Health Concerns Related to Computer Use to enter the feature title in the Heading 2 style Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  45. Modifying a Style Using the Modify Style Dialog Box • Right-click Heading 2 on the Home tab to display a shortcut menu • Click Modify on the shortcut menu to display the Modify Style dialog box • Click the Color box arrow and then click Green, Accent 1, Darker 25% to change the color to a darker shade of green • Place a check mark in the Automatically update check box so that any additional changes you make to the Heading 2 style will automatically modify the style • Click the OK button to update the Heading 2 style Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  46. Modifying a Style Using the Modify Style Dialog Box Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  47. Inserting a Continuous Section Break • With the insertion point at the end of the feature article press the ENTER key to position the insertion point below the article title • Display the Page Layout tab • Click the Insert Page and Section Breaks button on the Page Layout tab to display the Insert Page and Section Breaks gallery • Click Continuous in the Insert Page and Section Breaks gallery to insert a continuous section break above the insertion point Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  48. Inserting a Continuous Section Break Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  49. Changing the Number of Columns • Click the Columns button on the Page Layout tab to display the Columns gallery • Click Three in the Columns gallery to divide the section containing the insertion point in three evenly sized and spaced columns Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

  50. Changing the Number of Columns Microsoft Office 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques - Windows Vista Edition

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