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Mr. Verlin South Philadelphia High School September 27, 2010. Editing word documents. Preliminaries. Pre-class (10 classwork points): on your workstations, do the following: Launch Internet Explorer and browse to http://www.freetypinggame.net. Obtain your typing speed.
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Mr. Verlin South Philadelphia High School September 27, 2010 Editing word documents
Preliminaries • Pre-class (10 classwork points): on your workstations, do the following: • Launch Internet Explorer and browse to http://www.freetypinggame.net. • Obtain your typing speed. • Practice placing your hands on the homerow without looking at the keyboard. • Click on the “Learn Now” button within the “Free Typing Lessons” pane. • Select lesson #4 and read the instructions which follow • “a” and “;” keys • Left and right pinky fingers
Review: Working with Existing Word Documents • Object browser enables quick viewing of • Graphics • Whole pages
Objectives • Proper hand placement on the home row. • Touch-type using the “a” and “;” keys at 20 w.p.m. • Be able to copy and paste text from Word documents and web pages.
Focus Lesson: Editing Word Documents Launch Word. Select the text to be copied by highlighting it. Click the Edit menu then the Copy command. Click on the new location where you want the text to be copied. Click the Edit menu and then the Paste command.
Focus Lesson: Editing Word Documents (30 classwork pts.) • Browse out to your favorite website. It must be one appropriate for class. The page must also contain at least one 5-sentence paragraph. • Copy this paragraph and paste it into a Word document. I will inspect it. • Read and re-read the paragraph until you have solid understanding of what the main idea is.
Focus Lesson: Editing Word Documents con’t. (30 classwork pts.) • Type one more 5-sentence paragraph of your own. It must logically follow from the main idea expressed in the first paragraph you just pasted from the web page.