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FEATURES OF THE EXCEL WINDOW

ENTERING FORMULAS IN EXCEL

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WEEK 7
LESSON NOTES

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EDITING AND FORMATTING WORD PROCESSING DOCUMENT

A Word Processor is an application that is used to create, edit,

print and save documents.

Word Processing is the process of creating, editing, printing and saving documents.

Examples of Word processors are;

AbiWord, Microsoft Word, WordPad, Pages, WordPerfect

Techniques in;

EDITING

Ø  Selecting text

Ø  Copy, cut and paste selected text

Ø  Resaving an edited document

FORMATTING

Ø  Applying bullets to text

Ø  Applying numbering to text

Ø  Changing bullets and numbering style

Ø  Aligning text

Ø  Line spacing

A. SELECTING TEXT

Selecting text in Microsoft Word is also known as highlighting. Before deleting, formatting or editing text, it must be selected. This requires some basic mouse skills such as clicking and dragging.

Text can be selected by clicking and dragging the I-beam pointer across the text to highlight it.

SELECTING TECHNIQUES

TO SELECT	USE THE MOUSE POINTER TO
Any amount of text	Drag over the text
A word	Double-click the word
A line of text	Click with the mouse pointer to the left of the line
A sentence	Press and hold (Ctrl) then click the sentence
A paragraph	Triple-click the paragraph or double-click with the mouse pointer to the left of the paragraph
A large block of text	Click at the beginning of the selection, press and hold (Ctrl) as you select each additional selection
Randomly different word selection	Select the first selection, then press and hold (Ctrl) as you select each additional selection.
An entire document	Triple-click with the mouse pointer to the left of any text or click “SELECT ALL” on the edit menu, or press (Ctrl +A)

COPY OR CUT AND PASTE

After you have selected the text you want, there are many things you can do. You might choose to delete, copy the text, cut the text or paste it.

To cut and paste text;

1. Select the text you want to cut;

2. Click on the cut button on the standard toolbar;

3. Place the insertion point at the location you want to paste;

4. Click on the paste command on the standard toolbar.

To copy and paste text;

1. Select the text you want to copy;

2. Click on the copy button on the standard toolbar;

3. Place the insertion point at the location you want to paste;

4. Click on the paste command on the standard toolbar.

WEEK 8

LESSON NOTES

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THE USE OF THE DRAWING TOOLBAR IN WORD PROCESSING

Drawing toolbar is a GUI widget on which tools that can be used to draw

in Ms. Word are found.

You can add a variety of shapes to your document including shapes such

as; Block arrows, Callouts, Squares, Stars, Flowchart and more.
The drawing toolbar also helps in filling the colour in a shape.                   

TOOLS ON THE DRAWING TOOLBAR
A.         AUTOSHAPES

The “autoshapes” provides different shapes that can be drawn in

Ms. Word document.

You can draw these shapes by choosing the category under which

your shape falls.

The categories are as follows;
Ø Lines: Choose this category to draw different style of lines and arrows.

Ø Connectors: Choose this category to draw connectors for connecting two or more shapes.

Ø Basic shapes: Choose this category to draw the different shapes such as Oval, Rectangle, Hexagon, Octagon and Sun.

Ø Block arrow: Use this category to draw Block and thick arrows.

Ø Flowchart

Ø Stars and banners

Ø Callouts

B.         FILL COLOUR

 The fill colour tool on the drawing toolbar is used to change the

 background colour of the shape you have drawn.

C.        LINE COLOUR

 The line colour tool is used to change the colour of a line, arrow
 or the outline of a shape drawn.

D.         CLIP ART

The Clip Art is used to add art designs either from clip organizers or

office online to a document.

E.          RECTANGLE

This allows you to draw rectangles and squares in Ms. Word.

F.          OVAL

The oval tool is used to draw circular objects.

G.         TEXT BOX

This tool is used to type text in a box. This tool is mostly used when labeling a drawing.

H.         INSERT PICTURE

This tool is used to insert pictures into the document from other
storage media.

I.            WORD ART

It allows users to select a designed artistic text from an existing
gallery.

DRAWING BASIC SHAPES

To draw any shape or object in Ms. Word:

(i)          Click on the drawing tool on the drawing toolbar;

(j)          Click, hold and draw to form your shape.

To Move, Resize and Rotate a drawn shape:

MOVE:

(i)          Position the mouse pointer over the shape so that it changes to a 4-way arrow;

(ii)   Click, hold and drag to the desired location.

RESIZE

Click, hold and drag the resize handles until you reach the desired size of
your shape.

ROTATE

Click, hold and drag the rotate handle.

GROUPING SHAPES IN WORD DOCUMENT

Grouping in Ms. Word document is when different shapes are combined
to form one shape.

This is important because ungrouped shapes may scatter when you try
to move them together.

To group shapes;

(i)          Select the individual shapes you want to group together;

(ii)       Right click on the selected shape;

(iii)     From the pop-up menu, point to grouping;

(iv)     Click on group from the sub-menu that appears.

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WEEK 15

LESSON NOTES

 

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