The document focuses on teaching word processing skills, specifically character and paragraph formatting in Microsoft Word. It outlines learning objectives, important formatting features, and practical exercises to apply these skills effectively. Additionally, it emphasizes that the appearance of text impacts communication and provides guidelines for enhancing clarity and creativity in documents.

1. Empowerment Technologies
Senior High School Applied - Academic
Unit 3: Word Processing Skills
Lesson 2
Character and Paragraph
Formatting

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“The appearance of your
message is a reflection of
yourself and your
relation with the reader.”
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What captures
your attention
in a piece to
read? What
makes you
believe in it?
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4. Learning
Objectives
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At the end of the
lesson, you should
be able to do the
following:
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● Understand the basics of
formatting.
● Identify each feature of
character and paragraph
formatting.
● Apply the basics of formatting.
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Take a look
at the
image.
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1. How does the slogan appear to you?
Is it engaging, or does it lack something?
2. Do you agree that a word processor has a
big role in delivering a message?
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The content of a text can
be derived from its
arrangement.
A text needs to be
enhanced with tools of
creativity.

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The difference between a word processor
from a text editor is a word processor’s
customization features that allow manipulation
of your work.

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Formatting capability varies
depending on the software or its
versions available.
Microsoft Word is the most
commonly used word processor
software.

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Formatting in a Word Processor
Formatting a document is vital in delivering
content to readers. Following rules on writing
and deciding on the proper structure results in
the clarity and effectiveness of the message.
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Character formatting
refers to the application
of properties or
attributes into single
characters or units
without affecting the
whole paragraph.
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Font Face: A dropdown to change the font style
(e.g Arial, Calibri, Times New Roman) and numerical font size
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Increase/Decrease Font size: A clickable to increase or decrease
font size
Change Case: A dropdown for options of character casing
Clear All Formatting: A clickable that removes formatting
properties

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Font Style: A clickable that changes a font into bold,
italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript
, and subscript.
Text Effects and Typography: A dropdown that provides a range
of text customization
Text Highlight Color: A dropdown for text highlight colors
Font Color: A dropdown of font color options

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Simply click on the
Dialogue Box Launcher
to access the Font Tab.
It will show all options
for character
formatting.
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Character Formatting

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The Font Tab displays a
dialogue box similar to the
default font options.
The Advanced Tab provides
modifications for character
spacing and opentype
features.
Character Formatting
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Character Spacing permits specific modifications to the
scale, spacing, positioning, and kerning per character unit or set.
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OpenType Features allows better support for different
languages or glyph characters.

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Paragraph formatting
refers to the application
of properties or
attributes into a
paragraph in a
document.
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Automated List: Dropdowns for bullets, numberings, and
multilevel lists
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Decrease/Increase Indent: A clickable to increase or
decrease indentation
Sort: A clickable dialogue box for sorting values options
Show/Hide: A clickable which shows or hides paragraph
marks on the page

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Align: A clickable for alignment options of left, center, right, or
justified
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Line and Paragraph Spacing: A dropdown for vertical paragraph
spacing options
Shading and Border: A dropdown for shading color and border
options for text, paragraph, or table

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Simply click on the
Dialogue Box Launcher
to access the Paragraph
Tab.
It will show all options
for paragraph
formatting.
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Paragraph Formatting

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The Indents and Spacing
Tab is similar to the default
paragraph options.
The Line and Page breaks
Tab provides changes for
Pagination, Formatting
Exceptions, and Textbox.
Paragraph Formatting
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Pagination sets up the page numbers of your document.
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Textbox options provide wrapping edits with the presence of a
textbox in the document.

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How did the formatting features of
your word processor help you with
a certain task that you were
working on?

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Practice 1
Identify 3 to 5 formatting features used
in each of the sentences.
Disregard any differences in the font
type and font size.
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Practice 1
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Sentence Features Used

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Practice 2
On a word processor, type your life motto or passage and
apply formatting properties that suit your message.
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Practice 2: Sample Output
At the bottom of your work, include the formatting features
that you used.
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Character
Formatting
Practice 3: Word Bank
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Paragraph Formatting Font Style
Text Effects and
Typography
Automated List Change Casing
Align
Line and Paragraph
Spacing
Show/Hide
Among the words and phrases below, choose the one that best fits
each of the statements that follow.
Font Face Clear All Formatting Shading and Border

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1. This allows the user to see the paragraph marks.
2. It includes the multilevel list.
3. This allows the modification of the whole paragraph.
4. This refers to the set containing bold, italic, and
underline.
5. This is defined as changing the attributes per character
or unit.
6. This produces uppercase or lowercase characters.
7. This offers various ways of text customization.
8. This changes the spacing of the paragraph.
9. This set includes “justified”.
10. This leaves only the unformatted normal text.
Practice 3: Word Bank
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If you are to create a
message to youngsters
that goes, “Be the
change you wish to see
in the world”, how would
you make it look? Explain
your answer.
Practice 4
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31. Wrap Up
Word Formatting
refers to modifications in character
and paragraph properties.
Character Formatting focuses on the
design of each character on a document,
while Paragraph Formatting pertains to
changes in the whole paragraph layout.
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32. Bibliography
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Brown, Jonathan. “The Enduring Popularity of Microsoft Word.” tmcnet.com.
November 26 2018. Accessed May 23 2020.
https://www.tmcnet.com/topics/articles/2018/11/26/440392-enduring-popularit
y-microsoft-word.htm
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Strizver, Ilene. “Think You Know What Opentype Is? Think Again!”
creativepro.com. October 19 2016. Accessed May 23 2020.
https://creativepro.com/typetalk-what-is-opentype/.