Word I

CS 14A

Feb. 26, 1997

Some of these exercises require pre-existing Word documents. These documents may be found on your R: drive. From Word, use the Open File toolbar button and look in the R: folders in this order: CS14a, Profnote, Word1.

After opening a file on the R: you must save it onto your N: drive. Open the File menu and choose Save As. Change the drive letter so that it is now you N: drive.

If you have questions regarding how to do something, call me over. Nothing needs to be handed-in.

Questions for which you are responsible:

1. Identify the parts of the Word screen listed in Table 1.1 of Project 1.

2. How would you get on-line help for setting/changing margins, changing fonts, etc.?

3. Identify the following: hard return, soft return, word wrap.

4. How do you create a new document?

5. What is the fastest way of moving to the beginning of a line? To the end?

6. What is the fastest way of moving to the first line of a document? To the last line?

7. How do you select a word? A sentence? A paragraph?

8. What is the difference between cut, copy, and paste?

9. What is the clipboard?

Exercises:

1. Open the document check.doc (on the R: drive; see above). Save it onto your N: drive, then print it.
   1. Proofread the printed document and circle any mistakes in spelling, grammar, capitalization, or punctuation.

   2. Load the document into Word and run the spelling checker. Did Word catch any mistakes you missed? Did you find any mistakes that were missed by the program? (You must move the insertion point to the beginning of the document each time you run a check --- the checks start with the insertion point and continue on until the end of the document.)

   3. Use the thesaurus to come up with alternate words for document, which appears too often within the paragraph.

   4. Run the grammar checker on the revised document. Did Word catch any mistakes you missed? Did you find any mistakes that were missed by the program?

2. Do the On Your Own exercise at the end of Project 2. Make sure your letter consists of at least three paragraphs. Once you have finished writing the letter, practice cutting, copying, and pasting text at the word, sentence, and paragraphs levels. Also, practice using the Undo and Redo toolbar buttons. These editing activities are explained in Project 3. Practice until you are comfortable with them.