FOURTH QUARTER

It is hard to believe we're already in the "Fourth Quarter," isn't it? Time is flying! Soon we'll be on our Summer Vacation.

By now, you should have completed all of the Keyboarding Skill Builder Lessons. Most of you are typing more than 50 words per minute with less than 3 errors. You also worked on the Numeric Keypad Lessons at the beginning of this quarter and some of you are already entering at least 150 digits per minute. If you are not there yet, I suggest that you repeat these lessons - they are short and with practice you can become more proficient at typing numbers. You should have completed all of the Keypad Timed Writings, as well. You had the Numeric Keypad Test on April 10, 2008.

At this present time we are working on "Formatting Documents." We are reviewing Chapter 5 of the Microsoft Office 2003 Textbook. We learned about the Formatting Task Pane and how to use it, what are Margins, how to insert a Page Break, what are Tabs and Indents, how to insert Tabs using the Tab Selection Box, how to use the Header and Footer, and how to change the Line Spacing in a document. We will continue with the "Training" Exercise and will have a Quiz on April 22, 2008.

WHAT ARE TABS?

Tabs provide a way for you to control the indentation and vertical alignment of text in your document. When you press the Tab key, Word inserts a tab in the document; this moves the cursor—and any text to the right of it—to the next tab stop. By default, Word has tab stops at 1/2-inch intervals across the width of the page. You can modify the location of tab stops and control the way text aligns at a tab stop.

There are four basic types of tab stops (besides the first line indent and the hanging indent tabs), and each aligns text differently:

- Left-aligned The left edge of text aligns at the tab stop. Word's default tab stops are left-aligned.

- Right-aligned The right edge of text aligns at the tab stop.

- Center-aligned The text is centered at the tab stop.

- Decimal-aligned The decimal point (period) is aligned at the tab stop. You use this type of tab for aligning columns of numbers.

Check your notes and the hand-outs on Tabs and Indents that I gave you and complete the following review questions. If you don't find the answers on these, please check the Microsoft Word Textbook. The Quiz will NOT include "Indents" - just what we did in class to date (up to page 139) - Questions 1 - 12, not the last five.

REVIEW:

1. What are margins? What are Word's "default margins"? How do you change the margins? (three ways)
2. What is pagination? How do you insert a page-break in Word?
3. What is a header? What is a footer? How do you insert them? Why are they used?
4. How can you enter page numbers in Word? (two main ways)
5. What is line spacing? How do you change the line spacing in Word?
6. What are tabs? What are default tabs?
7. When do you use tabs in Microsoft Word? What are tab stops? Mention the different types of tab stops.
8. What’s the first thing you should do when you need to work with tabs?
9. Which are the different types of tab stops? Which tab is the most used?
10. How can you set tabs more precisely? Where do you go?
11. How do you change the tabs for an entire document?
12. How do you set a tab stop? How do you remove tab stops from your ruler?
13. What are tab leaders? How do you create them?
14. What are first line indents? What are hanging indents?
15. Mention two ways to indent a paragraph in Microsoft Word?
16. When do you move the left indent square?
17. How do you create a hanging indent? Mention two ways.

This review will help you study for Tuesday’s Quiz (4/22/08). This information will also be included in your Final Exam.