The document discusses advanced word processing skills, focusing on the mail merge feature in Microsoft Word and its usefulness for creating personalized documents, especially for advertising. It details various types of materials that can be integrated into documents, such as images, clip art, shapes, smart art, charts, and screenshots, along with their file formats and characteristics. Additionally, it explains different image placement options within a document to enhance layout and presentation.

1. ADVANCE WORD
PROCESSING
SKILLS

2. MAIL MERGE •is one of the most powerful and
commonly used features of
Microsoft Word. It allows you
to create documents and merge
them with another document.
It is commonly used when
sending out advertising
materials to various recipients.

3. INTEGRATING IMAGES AND
EXTERNAL MATERIALS
•Inserting pictures in your document like creating
a resume improves the impression of it. Though
seemingly simple to do, your knowledge on the
different kinds of materials that you can insert in
a Word document and its characteristics can help
you create a more efficient, richer document not
only in content but also in physical form.

4. A. KINDS OF MATERIALS
1. Pictures. These are electronic or
digital pictures or photographs you
have saved in any local storage device.
a) JPG/JPEG. This is the short form of Joint
Photographic Experts Group. It identifies
the kind of data compression process that
it uses to make it more compatible and
portable through the Internet.

5. A. KINDS OF MATERIALS
b.) GIF. This stands for Graphics
Interchange Format which can
display transparencies good for
blending with other materials in
your document and can display
simple animation

6. A. KINDS OF MATERIALS
c.) PNG. It stands for Portable Network
Graphics built around the capabilities of
.GIF for the purpose of transporting
images on the Internet at faster rates
but does not support animation.

7. A. KINDS OF MATERIALS
•2. Clip Art. This is generally a .GIF
type; line art drawings or images used
as generic representation for ideas
and objects that you might want to
integrate in your document.

8. A. KINDS OF MATERIALS
•3.Shapes. These are printable
objects or materials that you
can integrate in your document
to allow you to have some tools
to use for composing and
representing ideas.

9. A. KINDS OF MATERIALS
•4. Smart Art. These are predefined sets
of different shapes grouped together
to form ideas that are organizational
in nature.

10. A. KINDS OF MATERIALS
•5.Chart. It allows you to represent data
characteristics and trends in a
graphical manner.

11. A. KINDS OF MATERIALS
•6.Screenshot.
A more
realistic image
to integrate in
creating
reports or
manuals.

12. IMAGE PLACEMENT
1. In Line with Text. It treats your image like a
text font with the bottom side totally aligned
with the text line and is used when you need to
place your image at the beginning of a
paragraph.

13. IMAGE PLACEMENT
2. Square. This allows the inserted image to be
placed anywhere within the paragraph with the
text going around the image in a square pattern
like frame.

14. IMAGE PLACEMENT
3. Tight. This is almost like the Square setting
where the text “hug” or conforms to the general
shape of the image.

15. IMAGE PLACEMENT
4. Through. This allows the text on your
document to flow even tighter taking the
contours and shape of the image.

16. IMAGE PLACEMENT
5. Top and Bottom. This pushes the texts away
vertically to the top and/or the bottom of the
image so that the image occupies a whole text
line on its own.

17. IMAGE PLACEMENT
6. Behind Text. It allows the image to be
dragged and placed anywhere on your document
but with all the texts floating in front of it.

18. IMAGE PLACEMENT
7. In Front of Text. This allows your image to
be placed right on top of the text as if your
image was dropped right on it.

19. ACTIVITY