Microsoft Word Tutorial & Assignment 1 If you want to follow along, you can copy (“Ctrl” + “c”) the text from here and paste it (“Ctrl” + “v”) into a new.

Microsoft Word Tutorial & Assignment 1

If you want to follow along, you can copy (“Ctrl” + “c”) the text from here and paste it (“Ctrl” + “v”) into a new Word document.

Here’s the text that we are starting out with – it’s a description for a software project:

No Trip Meals

You come home late from work, sit down on the couch ready to relax when you suddenly realize it’s time to make dinner. Unfortunately, you don’t have very many ingredients and don’t particularly want to go to the store. Luckily you have the No Trip Meals app. Select from our long list of ingredients that you have and we’ll match you with delicious recipes that you can make without leaving the house.

Features:

Huge list of ingredients to choose from

Simple and fast recipes at your fingertips

No shopping trips guaranteed!

Unformatted project description

● Basic Text Formatting

This description is good, but is lacking some stylistic panache. We’ll use some of the basic style and formatting functions available in Word to make it look better, and help to break it up into component pieces that are easier to visually navigate.

First off, let’s draw attention to the project name by making it bigger and bolder:

Select “No Trip Meals” by doing one of the following:

○ Left-click and drag the cursor over the text you wish to select.○ Hover the mouse anywhere to the left of the margins of the line you wish to select, and when the cursor is represented by a right-pointing cursor,

left-click.○ Triple left-click anywhere within the line you wish to select.

Click the “Bold” button, represented by a bold uppercase “B”. This can be found both in the “Font” section of the “Home” tab, and in the box that pops up upon selecting the text.

Alternately, hit “Ctrl” + “b” on your keyboard to bold or un-bold the currently selected text.

Now, let’s increase the size of the project title:

Select “No Trip Meals” using one of the methods already discussed.

In the number box found in either the “Font” section of the “Home” tab, or the pop-up style box, change the font size from 11 to 16. This can be done by selecting the number and typing ‘16’ in its place, or by clicking the downward-facing arrow on the right side of the box and selecting ‘16’ from the list of font sizes.

Visually differentiate the paragraph below the title by adjusting the alignment:Click directly before the beginning of the first line and hit “Tab” on your keyboard to indent the first line. Do the same for the second line to indent the entire paragraph.

After indenting paragraph

Adjust the appearance of the paragraph by justifying it:

Select the paragraph by either clicking and dragging over it, or triple clicking anywhere within it.

Justify the selected paragraph by clicking the “Justify” button in the “Paragraph” section of the “Home” tab, or by hitting “Ctrl” + “j” on your keyboard.

Features is a section header, so we want to differentiate it like we did the project title – but since it’s a subheading of the project, we want it to be smaller than the project title.

Using the methods from earlier in the tutorial, select and BOLD “Features”.

Again using the methods from before, indent “Features”.

Since the features of the project are listed out one after the other, they are an ideal candidate to put into a “bulleted list”.

Select the three lines under “Features”.

In either the “Paragraph” section of the “Home” tab or the pop-up box, click the “Bullets” button.

Clicking the graphic of the button will result in the default “black circle” bullets, while clicking the downward-facing arrow to the right of the graphic will allow you to select from multiple styles of bullets.

Also, let’s indent them once more so they are in line with the “Features” subheading:

Indent the first item in the list.

With indented bulleted list

Now that we’ve done some very basic sprucing up of the project description, let’s add our name to the file, along with the class and date.

Click directly in front of the “No Trip Meals” title heading and hit “Enter” to make a new line at the top of the document. Enter

your name on the first line, “CS121” on the second, and the current date on the third.

Reduce the font size of the name, class, and date to 12.

If necessary, un-bold them.

Select the name, class, and date.

Click the “Line and Paragraph Spacing” button under the “Paragraph” section of the “Home” tab. Click “Line Spacing Options”.

They look pretty awkward being left-aligned with vertical white space between them, so:

Check the “Don’t add space between paragraphs of the same style” box.

The name, class, and date are currently left-aligned, so let’s check out “center” and “right” alignment:

Select the name, class, and date.

Click the “Center” button under the “Paragraph” section of the “Home” tab, or hit “Ctrl” + “e” on your keyboard.

This is not great, as it makes it look like the name, class, and date are extra important, when they are really just informational.

Select the name, class, and date.

Click the “Align Right” button under the “Paragraph” section of the “Home” tab, or hit “Ctrl” + “r” on your keyboard.

2) Text Styles

Alright, that looks pretty good! Now, let’s tinker with the style of the headings to make them stand out a bit more:

Select the “No Trip Meals” title heading.Click the “Font Color” button under the “Font” section of the “Home” tab. Select a color (I’m going with blue).

To the left of the “Font Color” button is the “Text Highlight Color” button – let’s check it out:

Select the “No Trip Meals” title heading.

Click the “Text Highlight Color” button under the “Font” section of the “Home” tab. Select a color.

While this feature can definitely be useful in some situations, it just looks tacky here. Luckily, we can easily undo the last action!

Click the “Undo” button in the top-left corner, or hit “Ctrl” + “z”.

Now, let’s add a subtle shadow to the title heading:

Select the title heading.

Click the “Text Effects & Typography” button in the “Font” section of the “Home” tab. Select the first of the “Outer Shadow” options.

Now repeat the font color and shadow process with the “Features” subheading.

3) Inserting Objects

Inserting an Image

So far, everything that we’ve been doing has been located within the “Home” tab, but now we’re going to venture over to the “Insert” tab and add in a picture and a text box.

Click on the “Insert” tab.

Click on “Online Pictures” in the “Illustrations” section.

The window that comes up after clicking “Online Pictures” allows you to:

● Search Office.com and Bing for images and ClipArt.● Find images you’ve stored on your OneDrive, which is Microsoft’s

cloud storage platform.● Retrieve images by linking your Facebook or Flickr account.

Type “food” into the Office.com search bar, and hit “Enter” on your keyboard.

You should see a search results window similar to this:The “Online Pictures” search box.

Search result window

Select an image to be inserted.

Double click the image, hit “Enter” on your keyboard, or click the “Insert” button to download the image and insert it into your document.

The image will pop up wherever your cursor was last located within the document.

Document with newly added image

Formatting the Image

The default formatting of the image leaves something to be desired, so let’s modify it:

Select the image.

Go to the “Format” tab and click the “Position” button in the “Arrange” section.

Here, you can choose a new position that fits the image you chose. I’m going with the “middle, right” position.

Modifying the position automatically switches the text wrapping (the way the text flows around the image) from “In line with text” to “Square”. We can manually change the text-wrap style for the image ourselves, but we’ll do so after we’ve moved the image into a better spot.

Select the image.

Move it to an appropriate spot (whatever looks good to you) by left-clicking and dragging, or by using the arrow keys on the keyboard. Go

to the “Format” tab and click the “Wrap Text” button in the “Arrange” section.

Here, you can choose a text wrapping style that fits the image you chose.

The “Square” text wrapping works fine for my image, so I’m going to leave it be.

Now, let’s add a few effects to the image:

Select the image.

Browse through the “Picture Styles” and find one that you like. I’m going with “Drop Shadow Rectangle”.

Inserting a Text Box

Depending on the location of your image, you may find that some of the picture styles will change the positioning of the text around it. Now, we are going to add a text box that will help to tie the image in with the project:

Go to the “Insert” tab.

Click the “Text Box” button in the “Text” section.

Select “Simple Text Box”.

We’ve got a text box now, but it’s not where we want it to be, and it has the default text in it still. Let’s change that:

Select the text box.

Move the text box to overlap with the bottom of the image.

If the text box is behind the image instead of in front of it, change the wrapping to “In Front of Text”.

Replace the default text with “Provides you with delicious meals you can make with No Trip to the store, guaranteed!” Center-

align the text within the text box.

Formatting the Text Box

It’s really shaping up, but let’s change the background color of the text box to allow it to stand out from the background a little more:

Select the text box.

Go to the “Format” tab.

Click “Shape Fill” under the “Shape Styles” section.

Choose a color. I went with “Blue, Accent 1, Lighter 80%”.

By default, the text is anchored at the top of the text box. This tends to look a little off when there’s extra space around the text, so let’s change it to be middle-aligned:

Select the text box.

Go to the “Format” tab.

Click “Align Text” under the “Text” section. Click “Middle”.

Now, let’s get rid of those nasty pointy corners on the text box. You’ll put your eye out!

Select the text box.

Go to the “Format” tab.

Click “Edit Shape” in the “Insert Shapes” section. Click “Change Shape” in the resulting pop-up menu.

Choose an appropriate – and simple – shape. I landed on “Rounded Rectangle”.

I think we are finally done! Here’s the finished product, without any pesky menus obscuring the view:

I hope that you learned at least a few things about Microsoft Word. See ya!