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CS110: Intro to Computers

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Lab Exercise 4: Formatting Word Documents

Due Date: Monday, October 7, 2002 (at end of class)

Note: These tasks are not necessarily in a sequential order. You will likely find it helpful to do some of the reading before the Hands-On Exercises.

 

Task 1: Hands-On Exercises

  1. Copy the Lab File, “Tips for Writing.doc”, from my Assignments web page or from the “Student Data Disk” sub-folder tree, on the local drive of the classroom PC, to a diskette. Be sure to use this diskette version/copy when doing the lab assignment.

 

Remember: the lab (i.e. Student Data disk) files are also available from the Publisher’s website: http://www.prenhall.com/grauer, under the Student Resources section.

 

  1. Do Hands-On Exercise 2, pages 74-80, from the Microsoft Word, Chapter 2: Gaining Proficiency section of the lab book.

 

Note: You are not required to print the results of this exercise as it is used as the starting point for Exercise #3 below.

 

  1. Do Hands-On Exercise 3, pages 89-97, from the Microsoft Word, Chapter 2: Gaining Proficiency section of the lab book.

 

Note: the last step in this exercise instructs you to print out the formatted document. Staple the hardcopy output to this page.

 

Task 2: Hands-On Exercises II

  1. Do Hands-On Exercise 1, pages 115-122, from the Microsoft Word, Chapter 3: Enhancing a Document section of the lab book. Print out the formatted document & staple the hardcopy output to this page.

 

  1. Do Hands-On Exercise 3, pages 137-141, from the Microsoft Word, Chapter 3: Enhancing a Document section of the lab book. Print out the completed Agenda and Fax Cover Sheet & staple the hardcopy outputs to this page.

 

Task 3: Read the TechTalk section titled “The Windows Registry”, pages 157-159 in the Concepts/Lecture book.

 

Task 4: Read the following chapters in the Microsoft Word section of the Lab/Office 2000 book:

A.     Chapter 1 “Microsoft Word 2000”, pages 1-9 & 25-32.

B.     Chapter 2 “Gaining Proficiency: Editing and Formatting”, pages 52-59, 67-73, 80-88.

C.     Chapter 3 “Enhancing a Document: The Web and Other Resources”, pages 109-114, 123-125, 134-136.

D.     Chapter 4 “Advanced Features: Outlines, Tables, Styles, and Sections”, pages 155-157, 165, 175-179, 187-191.

 

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