LEARNING
MICROSOFT WORD 2000
Contents
Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4
CHAPTER 3 – ADVANCED FORMATTING
GLOSSARY
What does a word processor do?
This whole document was written using Microsoft Word, as was the following example.
Can you see the following in the example above?
Upper and lower case
Word wrap
Paragraphs
Fonts
Bold
Bullet Points
Table boxing with shading
Headers
What’s
covered in this book
Microsoft Word 2000 is a sophisticated word
processing application, which also incorporates many of the
features of a desktop publishing package.
This book is divided into four chapters each covering distinct subject areas and is intended as an introduction to the major tools which Word 2000 provides. A brief outline of the topics covered in each chapter is given below.
Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the concept of word processing. The exercises cover creating a simple file, saving and printing it. The first chapter also addresses copying and pasting.
Chapter 2 looks at formatting text such as changing font type and style. This chapter also covers text alignment, margins, bullet pointing and numbering.
Chapter 3 addresses the use of page headers and footers. Other tools such as spell checking and the importing of pictures are introduced here.
Chapter 4 demonstrates the use of tables in documents. The exercises cover creating tables, changing row height and column widths, as well as borders and shading.
Accessing sample
and test files
The files needed for these exercises are accessable via this hyperlink.
Acknowledgments
The original manual was written by Karen McChesney , Steve
Skillcorn and staff at Auckland University.
The manual has been rewritten by staff in the Department of Information Technology at the Central Institute of Technology.
Information in this document is subject to change without notice. Companies, names and data used in examples herein are fictitious unless otherwise noted. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without the express written permission of the authors.
The authors do not guarantee the accuracy, adequacy, or completeness of any information contained in the text and do not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions or the results obtained from use of such information.
Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access and Microsoft Visual Basic are acknowledged as trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
