This document provides instructions on various word processing functions including formatting text, inserting pictures and shapes, applying styles, adjusting line spacing, using mail merge, and checking spelling and grammar. It explains how to change font size and color, add AutoShapes and pictures, apply bolding, italics and other styles, set double line spacing, create a database and insert fields for mail merge, and run a spell check.

1. Word Processing By Jayne McWhirter

2. Font Size and AutoShapes Size 36 Size 40 Size 44 Size 48 Size 54 Etc.. You can change the font to suit what you are doing this is different sizes of text as you can see : To get AutoShapes you have to click on AutoShapes then you can click on Basic Shapes , lines or what you want. Then when you have chosen the one you want change the colour etc to suit you .

3. Inserting α Picture and font colour You can insert a picture from :- The internet through your files Clip Art How you do it Go to “Insert” Then go down to “Picture” And you will be able to choose if u want from “Clip Art …” or “From File …” Different types of fonts :- Papyrus Stylus BT Rockwell Forte Comic Sans MS

4. WordArt You can find this if you click on the blue A . Then u select the text you would like to use like this Then you would type what you want like this Then your text will appear and you can change it to suit you

5. Other useful stuff Text Alignment Any text can be aligned in four possible ways . Here are some examples. When you centre text it looks like this : Word art When you align it right it looks like this : Word art When you align it left it looks like this : Word art Text styles There are many text styles .These include bold , italics , underline , shadow , superscript, subscript, emboss . You can also use various combinations of these styles. However you do want people to still read it so you should limit the use of styles.

6. Line spacing If you need more space between each line of text. You can set it automatically by choosing double spacing. You can see the difference the look in this example : The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog . This text is single spaced. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. This text is double spaced To do this you have to go to FORMAT then PARAGRAPH then go down to LINE SPACING then click on the arrow and choose DOUBLE and then OK

7. Mail merge To mail merge you need to create a standard letter using word then create a database with the required fields . Select the required records Mail merge (insert fields into a standard letter) Print letters Then that’s you done

8. Spell and Grammar Check Spell and Grammar check helps to make your document Accurate in spelling etc …… Here is an example : The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. This text has not been checked The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. Here the text has been checked To do this you go to TOOLS then click on SPELL AND GRAMMAR … . Then it will come up with the mistakes you made, you can either CHANGE them or click IGNORE . If there are no spelling or grammar mistakes it will say so.

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