COMP1900 Worksheet - Week 4 (Word Processing using Word)

Basic mouse practice

Improving the appearance and structure of a document

• Give the heading Computers in the Information Age the style Heading 1.
• Give every heading beginning Chapter... the style Heading 2. [You may find it helpful to use the Find command (under Edit) to locate every instance of the word Chapter.]
• Give every indented heading (such as Input Devices) the style Heading 3
• Try using the mouse to swap the red and blue paragraphs.
• Select the entire black paragraph between the two coloured paragraphs. Try changing the following characteristics of the paragraph you have just selected:
  • Alignment (left, centred, right and justified)
  • Indentation (both left and right)
  • Line spacing
  • Indentation of first line
  • Border
  • Amount of white space before and after the paragraph.
    [Don't do this by inserting "empty" paragraphs - do it by using Format / Paragraph...]
• Select Style... (under Format) to modify the style Heading 2, as follows:
  • Change the font style to Chicago, size 10, and colour it Dark Red.
  • Center the paragraph style, insert a black border and apply yellow shading.
  [Check that all headings styled Heading 2 reflect these changes.]
• Select Style... (under Format) to create a new style called blockquote. (See the end of this worksheet for an example blockquote.) Now select any paragraph and apply your new style to format the paragraph as a blockquote. Modify the style blockquote until you are satisfied that the paragraph looks right.
• Select Page Layout (under View), then select Header and Footer to insert the following header:
  
     COMP1900 - Week 4 Lab Session
  
     Make sure your header is left-aligned.
• Use the icon Switch Between Header and Footer to switch from header to footer, then insert the following footer:
  
     This is page  x  of  y  pages
  
  As you key in the footer, use the icons Insert Page Number and Insert Number of Pages to make Word insert the numbers x and y. Make sure your footer is centred.
• See if you can-
  • number the pages so that the first is page 15, the second is page 16, and so on
  • display the page numbers as lower-case Roman numerals.
• See if you can change the document you are working on to a 3-column document, then back again to what it was.
• See if you can insert, on a separate page, a Table of Contents at the beginning of the document. Give your Table of Contents the heading Table of Contents, suitably formatted and positioned. Note what happens when you click on the Table's page numbers.

Time to go...

An example blockquote-

Before the appearance of FORTRAN, in 1957, most computer programmers spent their time writing programs in "machine language". A typical computer instruction might consist of 32 binary digits. To write and test even a simple program - say to sort 50 numbers - could take several weeks. (Today, the same task can be accomplished in a few minutes!) To make matters worse, each brand of computer had its own machine language, making it very hard for a programmer to take his skills from one brand of computer to another. An added frustration was the unreliability of much computer hardware. The first computer we worked on seemed to break down, on average, after 30 minutes. As there was no "back-up" in those days, we often had to repeat a long "production run" (several hours) from scratch.