This document provides instructions for formatting and styling text in Microsoft Word. It includes 10 steps to format margins, insert WordArt, change text and word colors, align text, insert tables and change table formatting, add borders and shading, insert and format text boxes, insert and modify clipart and shapes, and experiment with additional formatting options like fonts, bullets, images, and drop caps. The goal is to get the reader to explore the various formatting tools in Word.

1. Formatting Fun
FIRST: File  Save As  ID# (J:)

Click Documents  Save
That is called the ribbon.
It has all the tools you need!
STOP
TAKING
AND DO
YOUR
WORK

2. 1. Page margins are the white space on the left
and right and top and bottom of all the words/text.
This PAGE LAYOUT needs some CUSTOM
MARGINS! Change all the PAGE margins [NOT
THE GUTTERS!] to .9
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2. Click in the white space just below these
directions and insert your first name using Word
Art. Change the color! Change the design! JAZZ
it up!!!
Margin

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3. Make the text of these words the color of their
names:
Red
Blue
Green
Yellow
Orange
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4. Move these words to the places that match
their meaning – NO “Tab”, NO space bar!!! [HINT: Home
tab  Paragraph box]
Right
Left
Center
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5. Many cannot do this. CAN YOU?
Correctly space these words:
Bob was a frog. He did not like to hop. Bob liked to
walk on his tiptoes. Silly Bob!

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6. FONTS & BULLETS
A. Change the font sizes of each line below to
match the numbers
 Make this size 12
 Make this size 24
Make this size 36
B. Make it a bulleted list: Highlight all
three lines  Click the bullets icon [in Home]  Can
you find cool characters for your bullets?? [You can
even IMPORT an image to use as a bullet!]
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7. Page Layout will lead you to page borders.
Add a page border (anything you like). Your
choice. [For fun … click “Art”]!

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8. CLIPART
A. Insert a Clipart picture of a person.
B. Find Callout Shapes and insert a design. In
the shape, type something that person would say.
C. CHALLENGE: Shade the speech bubble and
change its border! [HINT: righ
t click!]
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9. TABLE CHALLENGE:
A. In the white space under B. insert a 3 by 3
table.
B. Make the OUTSIDE BORDER (not inside
cell borders) of the table look like this:
Try different things to make it work! Explore!
HINT:

6. C. Make each row of the table a different
color. [Highlight the row  right click  Borders &
Shading.]
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10. FONTS, BOLD, ITALICS
Make each one the font and size it says.
Arial 10
Chiller 12
Courier Bold
Euphemia Purple Italics
Basketball 24
Courier New 28
11. TEXT BOXES
A. Click in the white space below B. and
insert a text box. Type something in it.

7. B. Click on it  Format  Decorate it, play
with text box styles, add text, change the text
direction, etc.
C. Right click on it  Text Wrapping  Tight
 Grab the box and slide it to the very bottom of
this assignment!
Blogs:
Paste the home page web address of your blog
web here:
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Explore & see what else you can do!
Surprise me!
* Show an image and its flipped version.
* Insert an image from the Internet.
* Try Shapes!
* Can you put text in an AutoShape?
* Can you insert & decorate a cube or other 3-
dimensional shape?
* Type two paragraphs about anything appropriate.
Highlight one and click Drop Cap! Repeat with the other
paragraph.

8. BYE!
HOPE YOU
HAD FUN!
Do your work and
stop Talking