Word Basics Notesheet #2

WORD BASICS NOTESHEET #2

1. The _____ menu is used to open, save and print work. 2. If you don’t see what you want to do under a menu choice, you can click the ______at the bottom of the menu to find the other less common options. 3. To setup the way your page will print, you should go to the _____ menu and choose Page Setup. Page Setup includes orientation and margins. 4. ______orientation means that the page will print with the short side at the top. With a regular sheet of paper (8 ½ X 11), your page will be 11 inches long. Think of it like what your school day portrait pictures look like. 5. ______orientation means that the page will print with the long side at the top. With a regular sheet of paper (8 ½ X 11), your page will be 8 ½ inches long. Think of it like you are trimming hedges in a landscape business or looking over the landscape. 6. Margins (or the amount of white space on the sides of your documents) are also changed under the Page Setup command. On the ____ menu, choose Page Setup, and then the Margins tab. The default margins for Word are 1.25” on the sides and 1” on the top and bottom. To change your margins, you ______. This changes the margins for the entire document. 7. A font is ______. You should choose your fonts based on the purpose of the text. 8. Fonts are measured in ______, not inches. A ______is 72 inches high. Therefore, a size 12 font is ____ inches high. 9. The ______toolbar also allows you to make some font changes. 10. You can make all font changes, including style, size, color and effects using the ______menu. 11. Line spacing is also located under the ______menu under the ______option. The default for Word is single spacing which means there are no blank lines between your text. If you want more space between your lines, you can use the menu, the line spacing icon on the toolbar, or a keyboarding shortcut. a. The keyboarding shortcut for double spacing is ______+___. b. The keyboarding shortcut for single spacing is ______+___. c. The keyboarding shortcut for one and half lines is ______+___. 12. Once you set the formatting up for a line or a paragraph, you can copy the formatting to other text instead of performing all of the steps again. You do this with the ______which is a tool on the standard toolbar that looks like a ______. Simply select the text that has the formatting you want, click the ______icon and select the text it should be applied to. 13. The Show/Hide invisible characters button is VERY important when formatting a document. There are three invisible characters that do not show as you type, a space, an enter, and a tab. When making formatting changes, it is best to show these invisible characters because all formatting for a paragraph is saved in the symbol that represents the Enter. To show invisible characters, click the ______button on the standard toolbar. a. The invisible character for a space is a ____. b. The invisible character for an Enter is a ______. c. The invisible character for a tab is an ______.