Wednesday Blog

I’m on Project 15

My thoughts and experiences with this chapter have been an increase in knowledge of Microsoft Office 2010. Chapter three covered formatting documents and how the reader interprets the document, how it is read, and the impression of the document. Proper formatting is necessary in creating professional documents.  Setting margins and indenting paragraphs are required skills for professional documents. These are set and changed from the Page Layout tab. Spacing between lines and paragraphs can be changed by the Home tab or Paragraph dialog box. Tabs position text within a line. Tabs also align multiple paragraphs and text into columns. I practiced holding down the Alt key and dragging to select a vertical block of text but it does not work, I can select a vertical block by holding down the left click button and sliding. I will continue to practice this new technique. Hanging Indents are also necessary when typing a paper using AMA or APA styles of writing. I have used first line indents when typing reports. Creating bulleted and numbered list are not difficult to format if you follow the steps under the Home tab. Headers and Footers are used in research reports and are located under the Insert tab. The Insert tab also has clip art and graphics to add to documents. Under the Reference tab is where footnotes and endnotes are created. These are also important skills to use in research papers. Templates are master documents that include the basic elements for a particular type of document. HTML is a term I am familiar with and it is a file format for documents viewed using browser software that does not have Microsoft Word.

Two terms I was unfamiliar with were Ligature (two or more letters combined into one character). This is an OpenType font developed by Microsoft and Adobe. The other term was Pagination, how a document is divided into pages. Page breaks are found under the Insert tab. When a document is edited the pagination is automatically updated by Word. There is so much to learn and as fast as I can learn this information technology has developed something new!