Thursday June 7

Today's Topics:

• Final project
• MS Publisher
• Pull Quotes

New Keyboard Shortcuts:

• SHIFT CTRL M  means to move something back
• WINDOW M means to minimize all open windows

New Things I Learned Today:

1. Highlight merge field shows where you merged a field in a document.Always remove because the highlighted part will print.
2. When you want something to pop out in a columned document you can go get a pull quote and insert it into your document so your readers know what you want them to really know.
3. Don't put to many pull quotes because it will make your document look to gawky.
4. You can also add a drop cap in say a newsletter so the first letter will be bigger it also makes your document pop out as the same with this as a pull quote, a drop cap put in a document it will look cluttered.

New MS Ribbon Item: Go to insert and click on wordart i like how you can type a text and after you are done you can move it to any where you would like in your document.

Screenshot of My Work:           My Letterhead I created for Final

Wednesday June 6

Today's Class Topics:

• Mail merge (letter)
• Mailing Labels

New Keyboard Shortcuts:

• ALT F4 means to exit MS Word
• Shift File menu means SAVE changes to SAVE ALL

New Things I Learned Today:

1. To use Excel instead of Word when entering a data source that way is a lot easier.
2. Always start Field Name in Row one in Excel the you can type in the data how it needs too be. NEVER skip a row in Excel.
3. Most common letter and size in Mail Merge is Avery and 5260.
4. Make sure when you are doing Mail Labels you fix 10 pt gap or it could shave off your data and it will make your Labels look very nasty.

New MS Ribbon Item: Go to Layout when you have a table or Labels and you can turn on and off your grid lines depends on if you prefer them or not.

Screenshots od My Work:              My Mail Merged letter

Thursday May 31

Today's Class Topics:

• All Seasons Health Club Report
• Nature Kids Summer Camp Report

New Keyboard Shortcuts:

• CTRL D means to pull up the Font part where you can stretch your lettering in a document
• SHIFT CTRL > means to increase your font size

New Things I Learned Today:

1. If you would like to stretch out words to better fit to what you are doing you can hit CTRL D and it brings up the format controller for your Font and you can go to advance click on spacing to expand, then click the numbering. Then you may do what ever setting that you prefer.
2. If you want to hide things in a document you can also hit CTRL D and select Hidden, some teachers may use this to persay to hide answers to a test etc.... This would be awesome tool to remember. If you want to unhide your document just simply CTRL D and unselect Hidden.
3. If you don't want a page number on your Coversheet you go to your Header and Footer tools and select page number that will take you to the Formatting tool to where you can select where you want you page number to begin.
4. How you can put  section breaks on just the even numbered pages in a book, document, report, etc....

New MS Word Ribbon Item: Go to Pagelayout go all the way to the right that allows ytou to align the edges of multiple selected objects, you can also center them or distribute them evenly across the page.

Screenshot of My Work: My letterhead I created in Sumo for a three page report.

Wednesday May 30

Today's Class Topics:

• Creating Cover sheets for a document
• Medical Form with LINES
• Medical Form with TABLES
• Adding sections in a document

New Keyboard Shortcuts:

• CTRL spacebar means to return to unformatted text
• CTRL = means to Subscript

New Things I Learned Today:

1. When you right click on the bottom left corner of a Word document next to the page numbers you can make it to where you can see the sections of your document.
2. If you want a different Header or Footer on each page of your document just click on Link to Previous and it should make it to where you can have none or to where you have a different Header and Footer.
3. How you can enter all kinds of Smart Art into a document. There are so many Smart Art Styles to choose from to make your document look very professional.
4. Instead of doing two separate Letterheads go into Sumo and pit in a 800 x 200 Letterhead.

New MS Word Ribbon Item: When you have created a Watermark in a document you can simply remove it by going to Watermark and scrolling down and click on remove Watermark it will slowly disappear.

Screenshot of My Work:

                                          My Letterhead for Library letter I created in Sumo     

                                        My Letterhead I created for Veterinary letter in Sumo

Thursday May 24

Today's Class Topics:

• How to use templates in Word
• How to create Calendars

New Keyboard Shortcuts:

• Shift F3 means to Change case
• Ctrl backspace means to delete back to the beginning of the Word

New Things I Learned Today:

1. There are two types of resumes; Chronological resume, and the functional resume.
2. If you send a Word document created in Word 2010 to users who have a version of Word earlier than Word 2007 they will not be able to open the Word 2010 document.
3. Word includes a Document Inspector that checks a document for content you might not want to share with others, such as personal information.
4. How to use Word to use a template to create a document, change a document theme, fill in a document template.

New MS Word Ribbon Item:  Go to Page Layout go to watermark you can enter the Confidential, or Do Not Copy on your document.

Screenshot of My Work:  This work will be entered when completed.

Wednesday May 23

Today's Class Topics:

• Creating Letterheads
• How to put more documents in a PowerPoint slide when created in Sumo
• Date and Signature should be at a 4 Inch mark on ruler

New Keyboard Shortcuts:

• SHIFT File menu means to Save changes to Save All
• Ctrl 5 is One-and-a-half spacing

New Things Learned Today:

1. How a Date Line, which is the month, the day, and the year is positioned two to six lines below the Letterhead.
2. How to create a document then add a colored Table into it.
3. How to create a Letterhead in Sumo then add it to your document.
4. How a Business Letter should be formatted in either block format or modified block format.

New MS Word Ribbon Item: Go to Home Tab and select Format Painter to use the mouse to apply the previously copied paragraph onto other text, or you can press ESC to cancel.

Screenshot of My Work:

My document I added my own

Letterhead and colored Table.

Thursday May 17

Today's Class Topics:

• How to create a Table of Contents
• Formatting Rules for Basic MLA
• How to place Footnotes
• How to put information in Works Cited

New Keyboard Shortcuts:

• Ctrl G means to Find or Replace
• Ctrl F means you can find a word in a document
• Ctrl Home takes you to the beginning of a document
• Ctrl End will put you at the end of a document
• Ctrl Enter forces a page break
• Ctrl T puts in a  hanging indent

New Things I Learned Today:

1. How I can put a Table of Contents in a document, when you have several pages and you need a reference page to guide you it is a great idea to create a Table of Contents.
2. If you are in your Table of Contents and you hold down the Ctrl button and click on a specific item you will go straight to that page, instead of scrolling down through all of your pages.
3. MLA doesn't use a footer, and it also doesn't need a cover sheet.
4. To squeeze in one word so that it doesn't make you have two pages, you fiddle with the Clip Mark icon until it is in the position that you would like it to be so that your not having unnecessary pages for just one single word.

New MS Word Ribbon Item: Click on the Refference Tab scroll to the Table of Contents and it should insert a Table of Contents into your large document.

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