Word Processing Lesson
Word Processing Exercises
Exercise 1
Load Microsoft Word, by clicking on the start button, highlighting the programs option and clicking on Microsoft Word icon on the desktop.
When the application is open you will notice that in the work area there is a small flashing vertical line in the top left hand corner. This is called a cursor and it is here where your text will appear when you begin to enter it.
Using the keyboard, enter:
Titan is the largest satellite of Saturn and was discovered by Christian Huygens in 1655. It is a large moon with a radius of 2575km and is the largest moon in the solar system. Titan has a nitrogen and methane-rich atmosphere. This makes observing the surface of the satellite difficult. The Voyager spacecrafts used a variety of methods to investigate Titan. These suggest that Titan has an atmospheric pressure greater than the Earth and possibly has methane clouds which rain ethane.
As you can see when you type the text automatically starts a new line without needing you to do anything. This is called word wrapping. Print your text.
Move your mouse pointer to the start of the T of Titan on the first line and click there; you will notice that the flashing line has now moved to the start of the text. If you type any text now it will appear in front of all of your existing text. This is the way you insert text into a document. If you press the enter key you will create a new line. Press the enter key twice and using the arrow keys on the keyboard move up the two lines you have just created. Type in the word TITAN and now you have added a heading to your passage. The enter key is sometimes also known as the return key.
When entering text you will sometimes make a mistake. There are two main ways to remove or delete text.
Using the above example, the cursor should be flashing at the end of Titan. If you press the backspace key then the cursor moves left and deletes the last character. If you continue to press the key, you can delete your entry.
The other way to remove text is to use the delete key which is located in the block of keys between the letter keys and the number pad. The delete key removes the characters to the right of the cursor.
Enter Titan again to replace your heading.
Now to save your work, this procedure is exactly the same in all windows applications so you can save spreadsheets, databases or graphic images in exactly the same way.
Click on the File menu item and a menu will open showing a list of options. Select Save and a window will open. In order to keep all of your work organised you will need to create a folder to save all of your work in. in the Save box click on the Create a New Folder icon
another box will appear asking for a folder name, enter your name and click OK this should automatically open your new folder. Click in the box File Name and enter the word Titan. Now click the Save button on the right of the window and you have now saved your work.
To close Word click on the X in the top right hand corner of the screen, or choose Close from the file menu.
Exercise 2
In the previous exercise you saved a file called Titan. We are now going to load this file into Microsoft Word Load Word as given in step 1 of exercise 1 You can load a file by single clicking on the File menu item to open up the menu which has an option called Open. Click on open and a window will appear. An alternative option is to click on the open icon on the Standard toolbar.
The Look in box tells you what drive the window is looking at. You need to aim it at My Documents. If you cannot see the file, click on the down arrow by the side of the look in box and find the My Documents file which is in the C: Drive, then double click on “Your Name” to open your personal folder. When you see the Titan file click once on it then click on the Open button. You can also simply double click on the Titan file to open it.
Enter the text below as new paragraphs below the previous text.
The Voyager spacecraft were not simply on a mission to survey Titan. They were taking advantage of the outer planets (e.g. Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus) being aligned in the 1970s so that it was possible to visit several in one trip. Two voyager spacecraft were launched a few weeks apart in 1977.
The Voyager-1 was to fly past Jupiter, Saturn and their moons while Voyager-2 was to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and their moons. Both spacecraft had two cameras and took thousands of digital photographs of the outer planets and their satellites. The pictures were sent to Earth as radio signals containing the digital information.
Highlight the Titan heading and bold and underline the word. Then highlight the rest of the passage using the mouse and change both the font size and font type. Finally justify the paragraphs.