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Microsoft Word 2010 Exercise 4

Rulers

The horizontal and vertical rulers in Word are often used to align text, graphics, tables, and other elements in a document.

To view the horizontal ruler across the top of your Word document and the vertical ruler along the left edge of your document, you must be in Print Layout view (selected from the View tab, in the Document Views group).

Showing/hiding the horizontal and vertical rulers

To show or hide the horizontal and vertical rulers

  1. Click View Ruler at the top of the vertical scroll bar.

Note: The vertical ruler will not appear if it is turned off. To turn on the vertical ruler, do the following:

  1. Click the Microsoft Office Button , and then click Word Options.
  2. Click Advanced.
  3. Under Display, select the Show vertical ruler in Print Layout view check box.

Tabs

A tab stop is the horizontal location that text will be located when you precede it with a TAB. Microsoft Office Word 2007 sets up default tab stops for you automatically at regular intervals. Text placed at a default tab stop will be left aligned to the stop. Default tab stop locations are marked in the ruler as short vertical bars on the bottom of the ruler.

Changing the space between default tab stops

You can change the spacing between tab stops as follows:

  1. On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the Paragraph dialog box icon.
  2. In the Paragraph dialog box, click the Tabs… button.
  3. In the Default tab stops: box, enter the amount of spacing that you want between the default tab stops (or use the up/down controls to set the value).
  4. Click OK

Manually Setting Tabs

Word allows you to manually set tab stops at any position you want as well. You can set tabs either for a selected paragraph, a group of paragraphs, or for the whole document. It is also possible to set tabs in such a way that any text placed at that tab stop will be left aligned to the stop, right aligned to the stop, or centered around the stop. Manual tab stops take on different appearances in the ruler depending on whether they configured as left, right, or center stops.

Adding manual tab stops using the Paragraph dialog box

  1. Select the paragraph or paragraphs for which you want to set the tab.
  2. On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click the Paragraph dialog box icon.
  3. In the Paragraph dialog box, click the Tabs… button.
  4. In the Tab stop position: box, enter the location for the manual stop.
  5. In the Alignment section, set the desired tab type.
  6. Click OK

Adding a manual tab stops using the ruler

You can add manual stops from the ruler as well using. To manually add a tab using the Tab icon

  1. Select the type of tab by clicking on the Tab icon.
  2. When the icon represents the desired tab type, click on the ruler where you want to insert the tab.

Removing manual tab stops using the ruler

To remove a tab that has been added manually:

  1. Click on the icon representing the tab on the ruler and drag it off the ruler.

Showing leaders or dots between tabs

You can add dot leaders between tab stops or choose other formatting options in the Tabs dialog box.

  1. Type the text that you want.
  2. On the horizontal ruler, set the tab stop that you want.
  3. On the Page Layout tab, click the Paragraph Dialog Box Launcher.
  4. In the Paragraph dialog box, click Tabs.
  5. Under Leader, click the leader option that you want.

When you press ENTER to start a new line, the formatted tab stop is available on the new line.

Word Practice: Tabs

Using this file as a base, recreate the document shown here.

Tips for doing this:

  1. Create a title with WordArt and center it.
  2. Note to yourself how truly ugly and useless WordArt is.
  3. Double space the text and use 12 points spacing after all paragraphs.
  4. Make the instructions bold.
  5. Make the list of questions a numbered list using the 1) style.
  6. Insert tab stops at 13 and 14,5 cm.
  7. For each question, insert a T at the 13 cm tab stop and the F at the 14.5 cm tab stop.
  8. Use a dotted line leader for the 13 cm tab stop and a solid line leader for the 14.5 cm tab stop.
  9. Put a three parallel line border around the entire document.
  10. Write the course number, your ID number, name, and surname, and the date and time to the proper locations with a Header and Footer.

Tables

Tables are often required to show various kinds of data. In Microsoft Office Word 2007, you can insert a table by choosing from a selection of preformatted tables–complete with sample data–or by selecting the number of rows and columns that you want. You can insert a table into a document, or you can insert one table into another table to create a more complex table.

Inserting tables using Table Templates

You can use table templates to insert a table that is based on a gallery of preformatted tables. Table templates contain sample data to help you visualize what the table will look like when you add your data.

  1. Click where you want to insert a table.
  2. On the Insert tab, in the Tables group, click Table, point to Quick Tables, and then click the template that you want.
  3. Replace the data in the template with the data that you want.

Inserting tables using the Table menu

  1. Click where you want to insert a table.
  2. On the Insert tab, in the Tables group, click Table, and then, under Insert Table, drag to select the number of rows and columns that you want.

Inserting tables using the Insert Table command

You can use the Insert Table command to choose the table dimensions and format before you insert the table into a document.

  1. Click where you want to insert a table.
  2. On the Insert tab, in the Tables group, click Table, and then click Insert Table.
  3. Under Table size, enter the number of columns and rows.
  4. Under AutoFit behavior, choose options to adjust the table size.

Drawing tables

You can draw a complex table — for example, one that contains cells of different heights or a varying number of columns per row.

  1. Click where you want to create the table.
  2. On the Insert tab, in the Tables group, click Table, and then click Draw Table. The pointer changes to a pencil.
  3. To define the outer table boundaries, draw a rectangle. Then draw the column lines and row lines inside the rectangle.
  4. To erase a line or block of lines, under Table Tools, on the Design tab, in the Draw Borders group, click Eraser.
  5. Click the line that you want to erase.
  6. When you finish drawing the table, click in a cell and start typing or insert a graphic.

Converting text to tables

  1. Insert separator characters–such as commas or tabs–to indicate where you want to divide the text into columns. Use paragraph marks to indicate where you want to begin a new row.
  2. Select the text that you want to convert.
  3. On the Insert tab, in the Tables group, click Table, and then click Convert Text to Table.
  4. In the Convert Text to Table dialog box, under Separate text at, click the option for the separator character that is in your text.
  5. In the Number of columns box, check the number of columns. If you don't see the number of columns that you expect, you may be missing a separator character in one or more lines of text.
  6. Select any other options that you want.

Word Practice: Tables

Using this file as a base, recreate the document shown here.

Tips for doing this:

  1. Set the title's Style to Title.
  2. Indent the first line of each paragraph.
  3. Change the spacing above and below each paragraph to 0 pt, and use double spacing for the text.
  4. Change font size to 12 and the typeface to Cambria.
  5. Insert the information related with coffee, calories and fat into a table as shown in the example.
  6. Insert a clip-art picture of a coffee cup in the lower right side of the document.
  7. Place a border around the entire page.
msoffice/msword/msword_exercise_04.txt · Last modified: 2012/09/20 01:38 by mithat

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