WORD TIPS – Java Juice Exercise

 

Set up: Open Word. Close the task pane, if it is open. From the Tools menu, Customize submenu, Options Tab, select “Show Standard and Formatting Toolbars on two rows.” Then select “Show full menus.” Next, select “Show ScreenTips on toolbars.” Finally, select “Show shortcut keys in ScreenTips.” Click on Close. 

 

From the View menu, select Toolbars, or right click in the grey toolbars area. Turn off everything except the Standard and Formatting toolbars. Click on the pull-down arrow to the right of the Standard toolbar. You have the option to add to remove icons from the toolbar. Look at the list of available icons. Change the status of the columns icon.  

 

Insert the text “Java Juice”:  Go to www.cob.sjsu.edu/splane_m/javajuice.htm. Press CTRL and A to select all text. Press CTRL and C to copy the selection. This is a quick shortcut to copy an entire web document. You can copy and paste across applications. Click on the Word tab, or press ALT + Tab. Press CTRL and V to paste the selection into Word. Leave the browser open.

 

Show different views:     Open the View menu. Menus items with dialog boxes (ZOOM) will be followed by three dots. Items with a submenu (TOOLBARS) will be followed by a triangle. Icons that do the same task as the menu item are shown on the left. Several are shown. Keyboard shortcuts that perform the same tasks (TASK PANE) are shown on the right. 

 

Select different views and look at the document in Normal, Web, and Print Layout Views. We will work in print Layout view. Views also can be selected from a row of icons in the lower left hand corner of the document.

 

Add a Footnote:

Hold CTRL and END to move the cursor to the bottom of the document. Place the cursor at the end of the text. From the Insert Menu, Reference Submenu, select Footnote. Press OK.  Word inserts a footnote indicator, a letter or number, where your cursor was located. It then opens a footnote area at the bottom of the page and repositions your cursor here.

 

Go back to your browser. Select the website address and press CTRL C. Return to the Word application and paste the website address into the footnote area. Press the spacebar twice. Type in the current date. Only author and source information should go in a footnote area.

 

Click back in the body of the text. Press CTRL and HOME to return to the top of the document.

 

Add a header and a footer:    From the View menu, select Header and Footer. A toolbar opens. You can toggle between header and footer. Add a header with your name and to the document. Use the centering icon to center the text in the header. With the header text selected, press CTRL and I to italicize the heading. Press CTRL and B to apply a BOLD format. Note: when you move your cursor over an icon, the keyboard shortcut shows in the description.

 

Press the footer icon to view the footer window. We will put a page number in the footer area, but we will not use this toolbar. The Insert menu gives you more options for page numbers. Click the close icon on the toolbar.

 

Add a Page Number from the Insert menu. Center the page number. Look at the format options. You can use different numbering schemes. You don’t have to use 1 as your starting page number. This is useful if different people are working on drafts that will be combined into a master document. For example, you may want to start with page 37.

 

Create a Hyperlink:   Press CTRL and END. Hit enter twice.  Press CTRL and-K.  Type in www.Google.com  as the address.  Change the text to display message to Google.

 

Use the mouse to select the word Google. Double click on the Underline icon. This removes the underline from your link. Click on the underline icon to restore the line.

 

Insert a picture:  Hold down CTRL and click on the word Google. Your web browser should open and display the Google Search bar. Click on the images tab and search for “Java Juice.” Two or three images should appear showing a sign for an actual Java Juice company in Australia. Right click on one of those images. Choose “Copy”. Return to the Word document. Position the cursor below the Java Juice title. Press CTRL and V to paste the image into the document. Click and drag to make the image larger.

 

The picture may contain a hyperlink. Right click on the picture. Remove the hyperlink. Go to the bottom of the document (CTRL and END.) Delete both hyperlinks.

 

Practice selecting text with the mouse,  using these methods:

To select a word: Double Left-Click on the word.

To select any amount of text: Drag over the text.

To select a row of text: Move the pointer into the margin, left of the line. Click.

To select multiple rows of text: Move the pointer into the margin, left of the line. Click and drag.

To select a sentence:   Control-Left-Click on the sentence.

To select a paragraph:   Triple Left-Click in the paragraph, or double click in the left margin.

To select a block of text:   Click at your starting point. Scroll down. Shift-Click at your end point.

To select an entire document:    Triple Left-Click in the margin, or type control-A.

 

Create a line across the page:    Insert a new line, directly below the picture. Type one of these six symbols: ~ - _ * = #. Repeat twice more, and then press Enter. Each symbol gives you a different type of line (wavy, single, bold, dotted, double, or triple). Insert several lines.

 

To remove a line select the paragraph above it. Press Ctrl+Q. You can also remove lines with the Border icon, by selecting No Border. Remove all but one of the lines you created.

 

Add a box border around a paragraph.   Put the cursor in one of the paragraphs. Click on the borders icon pull-down menu and select outside border. Select the paragraph again. Click on the borders icon pull-down menu and select no border.

 

Complex borders can also be added through the Format menu. Select Borders and Shading. The Borders tab lets you apply borders to selected text. Select the Page Borders tab, select a setting of Custom and select an Art style. Change the size of the artwork to 12 points.  Apply the border to the document. Undo the border with Ctrl Z.

 

Change the font size for the entire document: Select the whole document (Control A) then press Control and [ twice. Each click decreases the font size by one point.  Now press Control and ] four times. Each click increases the font size by one point.

 

Increase spacing between the lines: Select the whole document. Press CTRL and 2. Press CTRL and 1 to reverse the procedure. Press CTRL and 5 to set the distance between lines to 1.5 spaces.

 

Justify the margins: Select the whole document. Press CTRL and J.  Press CTRL and Z to reverse the previous step. Now press CTRL and Y to redo the step you just reversed.

 

Insert a page break:  Move the cursor to the end of the Customer Demographics paragraph. Press CTRL and ENTER to create a Page Break. This is faster than using the Insert Menu.

 

To search for text: Press F5 or Control F. This feature is useful for when you’ve done a google search and came up with a huge document. You can jump right to the word you were searching for.

 

Click on the Replace tab. Find the word Java and replace it with the word Jumbo. Select Replace All. Replace All can be dangerous to use if the word you are replacing could be part of a larger word. Changing “her” would change the ending of words like brother, mother, father and together. Press CTRL and Z or the undo Icon to replace Jumbo with Java.

 

Practice some toolbar tricks: Double click on the left side of the status bar to open the Find and Replace dialog box. You can use this feature to move around in the document. Close the box.

 

To search for non-text items: Click the circular icon below the vertical scroll bar. Choose the type of object you want to look for. Use the up or down browse buttons on the vertical scroll bar to quickly search the document.

 

Split the screen into two views: Position your cursor above the triangle at the top of the vertical scroll bar. The cursor becomes a two-headed arrow. Drag down to split the window into two windows. Why? This is used to copy and paste something from one section of a document to another, without scrolling. Drag on the dividing line to return to a single window. This feature can also be turned on and off from the Window menu.

 

Set margins and page layout: Double click in the gray area on either end of the ruler to open the page setup dialog box. Close the dialog box.

 

To set indents for paragraphs:  Look at the ruler above the document. The small polygons on the ruler control indents. Select a paragraph and then click and drag on the right hand polygon.

 

Now click and drag on the top polygon on the left. This polygon affects the first line of text. The polygon below it affects every line below the first line. The bottom polygon is used to indent everything at one. Experiment, and then return the polygons to their starting positions.

 

Open the Format menu, Paragraph submenu dialog box. Use the Indents and Spacing tab to set indentations to an exact distance. Positive numbers make the text area narrower, negative numbers widen the text area. You can widen the spacing between paragraphs in this box.

 

Open the Format Menu. Select Font. Click on the Text Effects tab. Add a dynamic text effect to a paragraph. Use Ctrl Z to undo the text effect.

 

Add a dropped cap:  Move the Cursor to the first paragraph, and select the first J in Java Juice. From the Format menu, select Drop Cap. Apply a dropped cap format to this J.

 

Create Bullets:  Position the cursor below the paragraph “Additional Sources of Revenue. Type the words Souvenirs Mugs, Shirts, Posters, CDs and Caps on separate lines. Highlight all of the words.  Press the bullet icon to apply bullets to the list. Press the icon again to remove the bullets. Press the numbering icon to number the list. Press this icon again. These are both toggle switches to turn bullets on and off. 

 

  • Souvenirs

R     Mugs

R     Shirts

R     Posters

R     CDs

R     Caps

 

Apply bullet points to all of the items in the list. Highlight every item in the list except the word Souvenirs. Press the Tab key or the Increase Indents icon to create sub bullets. 

 

Highlight all of the sub bullets. From the Table menu, select Sort. This puts the bullet points in alphabetical order. Highlight all of the bullets.  Press Ctrl and Zero to double-space the list. This is a toggle switch. Press Ctrl and zero again.

 

Customize your bullets. Select the sub-bullets. From the Format menu, choose Bullets and Numbering. Click on the tabs to see the different formatting options available. Return to the Bullets Tab. Click on one of the styles. Click on Customize. Now, click on Character. Select a Wing Ding font. Select a character to use as a bullet. Click OK twice.  The font size and color of symbols can be changed after you insert them

 

Insert a symbol or character:  Put the cursor below the last paragraph.  Use the Insert menu, Symbol submenu. Scroll to find a symbol. Highlight it and press insert. Enter three symbols.  Click close when finished. You can type either C, R, or TM, within parentheses, to get copyright and trademark symbols.

 

Check the word count: From the Tools Menu, select Word Count.

 

About styles: Normal is the default style. Web is for use with Web Pages. Headings 1, 2, and 3 are useful for automatically creating outlines and table of contents. Put your cursor in different areas of the document. Check the style in the style box on the toolbar.

 

Change a style:   Highlight the first heading, Basic Company Information.” Click in the Styles box on the Formatting toolbar. Change the heading style to Heading 2. Change the style of the picture to Normal.

 

Create a table of contents:  A table of contents can be automatically created, listing all of the text with heading styles. The number of the heading style tells you how far the text will be indented when it appears in the table. From the Insert menu, select Reference, then Index and Tables. Use the Table of Contents tab. Select ok.

 

Update the Table of Contents:  Click anywhere in the table of contents. Press F9. Choose Update all.

 

Move to one of the sections listed in the Table of Contents: Hold down Control then click on the heading.

 

View the Table of Contents in Web View: Notice that the headings become links.