Introducing word processing to students learning about WORD PROCESSING

1. Word Processing By Fiona Thomson

3. Change font and size of writing  Using the toolbar ! You can have … LARGE TEXT OR small text

4. Alignment Using the alignment toolbar you can change where your text is positioned on the page! YOU CAN HAVE YOUR TEXT…. LEFT ALIGNED CENTERED RIGHT ALIGNED or or

5. BOLD , ITALICS and UNDERLINE ! By highlighting your text then clicking this button you can change your text to BOLD! By highlighting you text then clicking on this button you can change your text to ITALICS! By highlighting your text then clicking on this button you can UNDERLINE you text!

6. INSERTING A PICTURE You can choose between either inserting a picture of you own or a picture from clipart! By clicking on this button you can insert a clipart or alternatively you can go to INSERT, PICTURE, CLIP ART… By clicking on this button you can insert a picture from your own file or alternatively you can go to INSERT, PICTURE, FROM FILE…

7. COLOUR OF TEXT There is many different colours you can make your text including … RED BLUE BLACK YELLOW ORANGE WHITE PINK AQUA BROWN GREY PURPLE NAVY e t c … IT MAKES THE PAGE MORE EYECATCHING

8. autoshapes Adding shapes make the page look more FUN!!

9. creating a table By making data clear and simple to read and understand we can easily re-arrange it by inserting into a table! By clicking … This will Appear  Then click Insert - table This will appear and just simply select how many columns you want and how many rows … and the table will be inserted to your page.

10. Line Spacing If you need more space between each line of text, you can set it automatically by choosing double spacing. You can see how different they look in the examples here. 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.