Outline - Microsoft Word #2 - Formatting a Document

1. Page Layout Tab

• Margins, Page Orientation, Size and Columns
• Indents and Spacing
• Set Margin to 1 inch

• Format - Font - Serif vs Sans Serif; Monospaced vs Proportional; Point size
• Format-Character - changing the look of the characters
  1. Font-Style-Size-Effects
  2. Headings vs Body of Text
  Insert a heading for GHS Law Partners
• Changing Text - Selecting
  1. Drag across the text; Single-Double-Triple Click;
  2. Shift key; Control key (sentence); F8 / (Esc); Selection Bar
  

• Alignment - Left, Center, Right, Justify
• Bullets and numbering
• Indents (*not* margins)
• Line Spacing (default for Word 2007 is 1.15)
• 72 points (vertical) = 1 inch
• Justify the text, then change back to left alignment. Double space the first paragraph. Use single spacing for the paragraphs, with 6pt after paragraph.

• Spelling Check - change, ignore, duplicate words
• Grammar and Thesaurus - highlight words, find synonyms and antonyms

• Find and Replace - try this out
• Cut/Copy and Paste - Select then do; drag and drop, shortcut keys; clipboard - move paragraph #2 to the be #1
• The Clipboard - storage area for Cut and Copy

• Pictures (Illustrations) and WordArt
• Header and Footer
• Page Number
• Footnotes
• Symbols (e.g., nonbreaking space; nonbreaking hyphen)
• Nonbreaking hyphen - control-shift dash
• Nonbreaking space - control-shift spacebar