USA CIS 110 - Take-Home Lab: Typical Document Formatting

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CIS 110 Microsoft WordTake-Home Lab: Typical Document FormattingDue: 10/4/2005For this lab you will need some text since your focus here will be on proper document formatting and not actually writing the document content: 1. Open up the Word DOC file for the first paper that you wrote for this class.2. Using the mouse, select ALL text in the document except for whatever you have for a title page, and/or a title block on the first document page. Click on Edit>Copy.3. Still in Word, click on File>New… and select Blank Document. Click on the blank page that appears, and click Edit>Paste Special… Do NOT select the ordinary Paste command. In the dialog box that appears, select Paste As “Unformatted text”.4. For practice, run the Spell Checker (<F7> or in the toolbar) and clean up your text. MAKE SURE THE SUGGESTED FIXES ARE RIGHT FOR YOUR SENTENCE!Now, on to the formatting…Create a Title PageType (substituting in your information) the followinginformation before the body of the document:TitleCourse – InstructorDateStudent NameInsert a Page Break. This creates a new page withouthaving to press <Enter> all the way down the currentpage.Press <Ctrl-Enter> or from the menu bar selectInsert>Break>Page break and click OK. The new 2nd page will still have the default margins, justification, etc. But now go back to the first page and format it for a title page: Select all the text on the title page and click the Center alignmenttoolbar button .Your Title Page is now set up. Your instructor may require left orright alignment for the various parts of the title page per her standard.To explicitly see page or other breaks, you cab click View>Normalinstead of View>Print Layout which shows margins and edge of page.Page 1 of 7More detail about formatting: Show codes if in doubt – toggle on/off Show/Hide in the toolbar.Now go to the 2nd page, which is the beginning of the document body.Add Automatic Page NumbersClick View>Header andFooter. Scroll down to thefooter area, a dashed outlineas below – yours will beblank – and click in the area.SelectInsert>AutoText>Header/Footer>-PAGE- which will automatically add the correct page number, updating it as your document changes.The helper window shown at right is in Word 2003. In older versions of Word you can just click Insert>AutoText from the main menu,You can add other text in the header or footer such as your name or the date manually or using Autotext. You can change alignment, fonts etc. within header/footer as normally.Now double-click in the body of the page to leave Header-Footer mode.Go back up to the title page and you should see that it displays a page number of 1. This is almost always unacceptable. Fortunately, the fix is simple:Click File>Page Setup in the main menu, select the Layout tab, and check “Different FirstPage”. This will cause the title page to now have an empty footer with separate formatting and drop the page numbers. Now your first body text page will be page 1.Page 2 of 7Page 3 of 7Other Document SettingsNow is a good time to verify your margins: on the Page Setup dialog, click the Margins tab. These are the defaults for Word, and what I want for this course. It may vary in other courses such as 1.0 inches for the MLA format. Make sure you have these default numbers for the margin sizes in this exercise.Note this is where page orientation is also located. Paragraph FormattingFor the papers in this class, and probably most that you will write inother courses, you will need double-spacing.Select all this text with the mouse and click on the toolbar button shownto the right ---------------------------------------------------------------------In the drop down set line spacing to 2.0 for double space.If you are expected to indent the firstline of your paragraphs you can press<Tab> every time or, better yet, haveWord do it for you automatically:With all body text selected, clickFormat>Paragraph…Set Special: to First Line – it willdefault to 0.5” which is what you willusually want.Note you can change the line spacinghere as well.Page 4 of 7Now we will do block quote formatting. You may apply this format to any text within your paper. Instead of the usual “This is a quote.” formatting, excerpts longer than 4 lines are usually formatted as a block quote.Click the mouse cursor somewhere in the text of your quotation.Bring up the Format Paragraph dialog again, this time by right-clicking in the text you want formatted and click Paragraph in the menu that appears. For this paragraph change Special from“First Line” back to “(none)” to remove thenormal first line indent. Then, set both Leftand Right indents to 0.5 inches – this meansthe text is indented an additional half inch within the existing page margins.Leave the Paragraph Format dialog box open…In some schemes block quotes are single-spaced for readability (not MLA!). Do itnow from the same paragraph After setting to Single spacing you mayneed to hit <Enter> one time to insert ablank line between the block quote and thenext normal paragraph.Footnotes and EndnotesTime to add a numbered footnote. Click at the endof the quote where you want the superscriptnumber to appear. Then selectInsert>Reference>Footnote. Footnotes are fit into the bottom of the current page, Endnotes at the end of the document (or section – good for chapters in a large document).Click Insert to add the superscript mark for the type of note you wish to add.Page 5 of 7Once you have a footnote, you can freely convert existing notes between footnote and endnote styles. Right-click in the footnote or endnote and the pop-up menu will appear:SOME PAPER FORMATS SUCH AS MLA do NOT use subscripted numbers, but cite the author and pagenumber in-line such as (Johnson, 21).Works Cited PageAdd a Works Cited, Bibliography or Reference page for your sources:Insert>Break…>Page or <Ctrl-Enter> (don’t need a new section)Type Works Cited<enter>. Type the first citation without any formatting. For this exercise just enter the informationfor your references in the format shown below.As an example, a proper citation for a web page document incorporating the URL looks like this below . Your word processor may automatically convert the URL to a working hyperlink, which underlines it. The outline box is NOT part of the citation – it is only here to separate the sample from the rest of this text!Limb, Peter. "Relationships between Labour & African


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