Word

Intro

The object of this exercise is to familiarise you with some of the important commands associated with using Microsoft Word to produce essays and academic papers.

Make sure that you are using the Microsoft Word app and not the web version

Saving

It is important to get into the habit of saving your work regularly. Click File > Save and save the document into your Onedrive Folder.

To save the work after that you can click save or press CMD-S

Setup

Open word and select Blank Document

Select the Arial font. This has been shown to be very easy to read

Select an 11 point font size.

Margins

If you can't see the margins, select Ruler from the View Tab

ake your margins smaller by moving the margin arrows. You will need to move both top arrows.

Create a Title

Write Microsoft Word Training Session on the first line. Centre it by selecting centre from the alignment options

Creating a Paragraph

Press Return four times. Set the alignment back to left.

Highlight the following text and press cmd-c to copy it.

I am learning Microsoft Word. I hope to learn at least one new thing in this training session. If I have any questions (and I know I will), I will ask the teacher to answer them so I will not get stuck.

Return to your document and press cmd-v to paste it. Highlight the paragraph and set the font to Arial size 11

Styling

Bold, Italics and Underlines

Highlight the title. Press cmd-b to set it to bold

Highlight the word 'least' by double clicking it. Press cmd-i to italicise it.

Highlight the phrase 'and I know I will.' and press cmd-u to underline it.

This is what you should have created

Double Line Spacing

Beaks often ask for essays to be double spaced so that there is room to write comments between lines.

To set this, highlight your paragraph and click on the line spacing icon. Set it to 2.0

Page Numbers

It is a good idea to include page numbers on longer documents.

To add page numbers, go to the Insert Tab and click on Header & Footer > Page Number > Page Number

If your screen is small you may see this

A menu will display allowing you to set where you want the numbers to be displayed.

Click OK when you are done.

Headers and Footers

Headers and footers are text that appears on the top (headers) or bottom (footers) of every page.

From the Insert Tab, click on Header and select a style

A space will appear at the top of your document. Put your name here.

When you have finished writing your header, close the dialog by clicking Close Header and Footer

Now, see if you can add a footer. It is a good idea to repeat your title here.

Footnotes

Footnotes put a little number next to a word and allow you to write some text about it at the bottom of the page.

These are useful for adding references. For example, you might include a link to a webpage that you got the information from.

To add a footnote, put your cursor (click) next to the work stuck in your document. From the References Tab, click Insert Footnote

This will give you a space at the bottom of the page to write your footnote.

Go to the BBC news website and copy the web address (URL) of the story at the top of the site. Past this into the footnote

It should look like this:

Task: Add a picture (copy and past from Google Images) and a table to your document. Give your picture a border and centre it. Use the help function or research online if you can't work it out.

Save your file to OneDrive. Attach the file to the Firefly Task to mark as done.