Word Processing Introduction

Introduction to Word Processing

In Word Processing you have the ability to create, store, and print
documents using a computer program called a word processor which
permits typing, editing, and inserting graphics and then saving the work
easily and efficiently.
In groups answer these questions:

Which Word Processing software will you be using at school?

Microsoft Word 2013
What are some features of a Word Processor?
Creating Documents
Identify the parts of Microsoft Word screen and understand what is on
each of the menus :
Font, Font Size, Bold, Italics, Highlight, Underline, Font Colour, Text
Effects and Typography, Character Shading, enclose characters,
bullets, numbering, Centre, Left, Right, Justify, Distributed,
decrease indent, increase indent, alphabetical sort, shading,
borders, Asian layout, hide/show, styles, find, replace, select
Cover Page, Blank Page, Page Break, Table, Pictures, Online
Pictures, Shapes, SmartArt, Chart, Screenshot, Store, My Apps,
Online Video, Hyperlink, Bookmark, Cross Reference, Comment,
Header, Footer, Page number, Japanese Greeting, text Box, Explore
Quick Parts, Insert Word Art, Add a Drop Cap, Equation, Symbol,
Add Signature Line, Insert Date and Time, Object
Themes, Document Formatting, Colours, Fonts, Paragraph Spacing,
Effects, Set as Default, Watermark, Page Colour, Page Border
Text Direction, Margins, Orientation, Size, Columns, Breaks, Line
Numbers, Hyphenation,

Keyboard Techniques
The keyboard offers many time saving techniques in moving around the
document. What happens when you press:

the Enter key?

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Home key?
Delete key?
Backspace key?
End key?
Page Up key?
Page Down key?
key?
key?
key?
key?
Ctrl + Home keys?

the Ctrl + End keys?

The keyboard also offers some shortcut keys. What happens when you
press:

the Ctrl + s keys?

the Ctrl + c keys?
the Ctrl + x keys?

the Ctrl + z keys?

the Ctrl + v keys?

Exercise - Selecting Techniques in a Word Processor

Create a new Word document

Save the document as "highlight" in your it_folio in your H:drive
Add the heading Selecting Techniques in a Word Processor
Copy and paste the following blue text into your document
Television has changed very little over the last forty years. While we have
gone from black and white to colour and the programs have become
more sophisticated, the medium is still the same. A television station
broadcasts its images and our receivers pick them up.
All this is about to change! A number of large companies and
consortiums plan to provide the Australian public with more choice. There
is a suggestion of delivering as many as 500 channels to people's homes
using and advanced fibre optic network. The viewer will have the power
to choose the material she / he watches, to pause the program, slow it
down or rewind it. Eventually we will be able to choose the camera
angles.
Some of the services of the information superhighway will provide are
interactive TV, video shopping, education services, video on demand and
video telephone calls.

Create a 2 column table similar to the one below

Try out the "actions" in the right-hand column on the text you have
copied. What happens to the text?
Complete the left column by describing what is selected
To select

Do this - action
double click a word
click in the white space to
the left of a line
drag up or down with the
mouse to the left of the lines
hold down the CTRL key and
click anywhere in a sentence
double click in the white
space to the left of a
paragraph
double click and drag in the
white space to the left of the
text
triple click in the white space
to the left of the text