Transcript Basic Formatting - Montville Township School District

Basic Formatting
A. There are multiple ways to do just about
any function in Microsoft Office Suite.
1. Tabs/Ribbon/Buttons
2. Control keys (hot keys)
3. Right click
4. Hover over text
Control Key Combos
ctrl z = undo
ctrl y = redo
ctrl p = print
ctrl s = save
ctrl c = copy
ctrl x = cut
ctrl v = paste
ctrl n = new file
ctrl r = align right
ctrl l = align left
ctrl e = align center
ctrl j = justify alignment
ctrl a = select entire document
ctrl h = replace/find
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B. Selecting Text to Format
1 Highlight the text by clicking and dragging
2. double click a word – selects just that word
3. triple click a word – selects the paragraph that
word is in
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Left Margin Clicking
Margin -the space between the edge of the
paper and the text
1. Single click selects one line
2. Double click selects one paragraph
3. Triple click select whole document
LEFT
MARGIN
ONLY
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C. Basic Text Format
1. Boldface – used to emphasize a small
number of words or single sentence
2. Italics – used when listing references
(bibliography) for a research report
3. Underline – used in research report,
titles, emphasis
General rule – no more than 3 words for
emphasis or one sentence.
Words worth emphasizing
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Not
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Always
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Or
Additional Functions
1. Page numbers
- insert tab
- go in the footer
2. Page Breaks
- pushes text onto the next page
- insert tab OR ctrl enter
Headers and Footers
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Allows text, pictures, shapes, etc. to appear
over and over on every page of your
document
You only have to enter the text, shapes, etc.
one time
Pictures
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Insert pictures from file (insert tab)
Format them with tight text wrapping
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Must be clicked on the pic to do this
Layer the pictures – place one atop the other
Group the pictures
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Click a pic, hold shift key, click the second pic
Let go of shift key, right click and go to group