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Aims: |
This module is designed to teach techniques which may be
useful when preparing essays and papers at university. The module is not designed to train word processing professionals, nor is it designed to produce desktop publishing experts. |
Objective: |
After successful completion of COMP1900, students should be able to create and maintain quality documents in Microsoft Word using styles. |
| Introducing Word | Getting started Creating a new document - the Project Gallery Saving a new document Opening a saved document Ways of viewing a document - Normal, Page Layout, Outline Working with a long document - scrolling, use of panes Document structure - Paragraphs, Headings, Sections Printing a document - Page Setup, Print Preview, Print / Print Layout Creating a postscript (.ps) file |
| Editing a document | Menus and buttons (icons) Selecting text Toolbars - what's on offer The Clipboard - cut-and-paste, copy-and-paste The Ruler - margins, indents, tabs |
| Styling a document | Content and appearance Formatting - fonts, paragraphs, borders, margins, tabs Using Styles to control layout - modifying styles, creating new styles Managing "white space" - avoiding empty paragraphs and unnecessary tabs Blockquotes versus in-line quotation - creating a blockquote style Visual enhancements - importing pictures and charts |
| Other features | Tools - Spelling and Grammar, Word Count Preferences Tables Headers and Footers - pagination Table-of-contents Indexes Footnotes Help facilities |