EXERCISE 1: MS WORD 2007 Intro to Information Technology

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NAME: _____________________________ DATE: _____________

EXERCISE 1

DIRECTIONS: Follow the given instructions below and answer each
question on the blank provided.

In this exercise you will learn about:
Using tools: Tabs, Ribbon, Toolboxes, and Buttons Zoom feature Highlighting text
Paragraph marks
Copy and Paste functions Font name and Font size Common keyboard operations
Bold, Italics, and Underline Vocabulary (underlined words)

Opening MS WORD 2007

Option 1:
1.Click on the START menu.
2. Click on PROGRAMS or ALL PROGRAMS.
3. Click on MICROSOFT OFFICE.
4. Click on MICROSOFT OFFICE WORD 2007.
Option 2:
Sometimes the program you want is already in the START menu.
1. Click on the START menu.
2. Click on MICROSOFT OFFICE WORD 2007.

After opening a window will appear, Microsoft Word, is open.


Slowly Move the Cursor across a Ribbon
icons. When you point to an icon you will
see the name for that picture or button
and its function. Now try to point the
cursor on top of the B, I and U icons.

QUESTION #1
At the top of the newly opened window(title bar), what are the words
written?

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Note: This is the name of the Microsoft Word 2007 file.

QUESTION #2
Upon hovering over the icon, what was written on the box that
appeared. Write it on the blank provided

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Type the alphabet in lower case letters, no spaces, as shown below:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

The letters look so small, they are hard to read. Lets try to make it bigger
using zoom. The Zoom feature is located in the lower right corner of your
screen. It is a bar with a minus button on the left side and a plus button on
the right.
The Zoom Feature can be used two ways:
1) Click the Plus or the Minus buttons until you reach the desired
size. After the initial change, the document will increase or decrease
in degrees of 10.
2) Move the arrow in the middle of the bar with the mouse: Click on
the arrow and drag it left or right. Try to keep the final zoom
between 120% and 150%.

HIGHLIGHTING

Click and Drag from the a to the z. this is called Highlighting. When
all the letters are highlighted. Take your finger off the mouse.

Another way to highlight the letters is to Click on the place before the
letters begins so that the cursor is there. Use your left hand to Hold Down
the SHIFT key. Use your right hand to Press the RIGHT ARROW key as
many times as needed until all the letters are highlighted.

A third way is called Highlighting a Row
or a line of text. Do not use this for a
single word. Move the mouse arrow into
the left margin next to the row to be
highlighted and Click.





QUESTION #3

a. Did the words you have just typed became bigger? ___________
b. Try to look at the font size box. What is the font size? ________
c. Did the font size change after doing the zoom function? _______
d. Why did it remained the same, even if the letters became bigger?






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COPY AND PASTE

While highlighted, Click the COPY button under the Home tab, in the
Clipboard toolbox. The computer will remember and temporarily store the
text that is highlighted.

Click after the z to place the cursor there. Now Click the upper PASTE
button.



QUESTION #4
a. What happened to the highlighted text?




b. While the text is highlighted press the bold icon. What happened?




c. While highlighted change the font size into 14 and the font into
Verdarna. What happened?





d. What happen when you change the font characteristics while words are
highlighted?





QUESTION #5

a. What happen after pressing the Paste Button?





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Click on the down arrow next to SELECT in
the Editing group categories to view the drop
down menu.
Click on SELECT ALL.






Some will get something that will look like the illustration below.

Some will get something that looks like the following.






To find out Look on the Home tab on the Paragraph group categories. The
answer can be found by turning on the Paragraph marks. Click the button
that looks like a Paragraph Mark.

The document should now look something like the illustration below.





QUESTION #6
a. Why are there two possible outcome?





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This feature will show you more than where the paragraphs are.




BACKSPACE and DELETE

Click between the n and the o in the first alphabet to place the blinking
cursor there.

On the keyboard Press the BACKSPACE 3 times.
Next Click just after the d in the second alphabet to place the blinking
there. On the keyboard Press the DELETE 3 times.

Click on the MICROSOFT OFFICE button. Click on CLOSE. We are not
going to save this.
a similar meaning.


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QUESTION #7
Look at the image above,
a. What symbol represent spaces? ___________________
b. Indention? _____________________
c. End of Line? ___________________
d. What do you think is the purpose of these symbols?






QUESTION #8
a. What happen when you press BACKSPACE?



b. What happen when you press DELETE?