Introduction to Word 2010 6

Install Ribbon Hero (download here)

Install Google Drive

Add to your Google Drive

Chapter 1 Microsoft Office Basics

**For some of the assignments in the text, you will need student data files, you can find them here: A Guide To Microsoft Office 2010 Data Files

Custom Guide pdf-Microsoft Office 2010

• Pages 1-3 – Practice 1
• Pages 4-7 – Practice 2
• Pages 8-10 – Practice 3
• Pages 12-13 -Citation note: use this webpage, not the one in the book:  http://www.iteachtech.com/concepts/surfing/
• Pages 23-25 – Practice Help
• Page 31- Project 1 Computer Environment (Do Not Print)
• Page 31 – Project 2 Passwords (Do Not Print)

my_sentence Directions: Read this Grammar Gang blog entry, watch this 2 minute video, write your sentence.

Be sure to look at the Creative Commons page. Also, take a screen snap and save it, then put the picture on your Weebly page. Click here if you can’t remember how to do that: http://www.screencast.com/t/SKBEgyXT3rI

Terms to know

Why is our school paper called the Line O Type ? And why is it misspelled?

Why did Microsoft change the default font from a serif font (Times New Roman) to a sans serif font (Calibri) with Word 2007?

Make your own font here.

Print vs. Web fonts what is the difference?

Pages 35-38 Practice Request

For Orientation, you will need a file.  Click here to add the Concepts folder to your Drive.
Pages 41-43 Practice Orientation Part 1
Pages 44-47 Practice Orientation Part 2
Pages 50-52 Practice Orientation Part 3
Pages 55-56 Practice Benefit (skip part 2 and 3)

Fun with Fonts

Psychology of a Font – where to use different fonts (good infographics)

Character Formats

• Fonts (serif vs. sans serif vs. decorative)
• Size (points, 72=about 1 inch)
• Style (bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript)

Introducing the Word Processor Lesson 1 2003 (use this to complete Word Screen-cc)

Things you need to know Lesson 2 (use this to complete –Word-Lesson 2 Questions)

Word Cheat Sheet (pdf download)

• Parts of Word Screen
• New document
• Show/Hide Formatting Marks
• Save
• Save As
• Open
• Print (Landscape vs. Portrait)
• Print Layout (view)
• Normal (view)
• Spell Check
• Thesaurus/ Synonyms
• Help
• Cut/Copy/Paste (Clipboard)
• Find/Replace

Formatting Documents – Selecting blocks of text (single click, double click, triple click)

Character Formats

• Fonts (serif vs. sans serif vs. decorative)
• Size (points, 72=about 1 inch)
• Style (bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript)

Paragraph Formats

• Alignment (left, right, centered, justified)
• Line spacing (single space, double space)
• Tabs (left, right, center, decimal, leaders)
• Indents (hanging indent)
• Bullets/Number

Complete
Lesson 3-Basic Features

Lesson 4-More Basic Features

Lesson 5 -Working with Paragraphs

Lesson 6-Tabs, bullets, numbering, undo, redo

Document/Page Formats

• Margins
• Headers & Footers (page numbers, file name, etc.)
• Page breaks

Clip Art/Pictures

Word Art

Word Count

Drawing

Tables

Word Notes 2.0/Quiz click here-> word_quiz2.1 (save but don’t print)

Do Lesson 7

Word Tutorials: http://office.microsoft.com/training/Training.aspx?AssetID=RC100140951033&CTT=6&Origin=RC100140951033

Word Tutorials 2: http://www.baycongroup.com/word.htm

Print vs. Web by Robin Williams