Word Processing
updated 8/7/200
| Knowledge | Skills | Task | ||||
| Enter and edit text (see keyboard) | ||||||
| File Menu: New, Open, Close, Save, Save As, Print | Create a new document creates a new file where your information is stored | create a new document | By choosing the New option on the File menu | |||
| Open an existing document | Locating and opening an existing document | |||||
| Save a document | Saving a document with the same name | |||||
| Save a document as another file (save as) | Saving a document to different location, with a new name, and different version of file format. | Saving a document in HTML format | ||||
| Print a document | Using the print preview | |||||
| Page setup | Changing the margins | change layout | change paper size | |||
| Edit Menu: | Undo previous action | |||||
| cut | ||||||
| copy | Copy and move blocks of text | |||||
| paste | ||||||
| find | Finding and replacing text | |||||
| replace | ||||||
| View menu | changing views | Changing document views | ||||
| adding/removing toolbars | ||||||
| Using the Ruler | ||||||
| Work with headers, footers, sections | Create a header or footer | |||||
| zoom | Using the zoom feature | |||||
| Inset Menu | Break | |||||
| Page numbers | Insert date, time, page numbers | |||||
| footnote | ||||||
| Picture | By choosing the Insert option | I can insert images, graphics and tables into my document | How do you incorporate images etc. into a word document? | Insert clip art into document | ||
| text box | ||||||
| File | ||||||
| Format menu | font | Change text format and style | Bold, italics, underline | Changing the font face, size and color. Adding attributes such as bold and italics | ||
| paragraph | Line spacing | Use character & paragraph formatting | Changing line spacing | Justification (left, right, center, full) | ||
| Bullets and Numbering | Bullet Lists, Numbered Lists | Adding bullets and numbering | ||||
| Borders and Shading | Changing borders | Apply borders and shading | ||||
| Columns | Add columns to document | Setting up columns | ||||
| Tabs | Adjusting the tab stops | Setting tabs with leaders | Aligning tabs | |||
| Changing cases | ||||||
| Background | ||||||
| Style | ||||||
| Tool Menu | Spelling and Grammar | I know how to use my spell-checker | How do you use the Spell-checker? | By going through the Tools option | Check spelling, grammar, word usage | |
| Language | ||||||
| Word count | ||||||
| Merge Documents | Creating a source document for merging | |||||
| Envelopes and labels | Creating and printing envelopes and labels | |||||
| Options | ||||||
| Table | Draw table | Definition of row, column, cell | Creating and formatting tables | Merging and splitting cells in a table | Deleting/Inserting rows | |
| Insert | ||||||
| Delete | ||||||
| Convert | ||||||
| Sort |