Formatting Fun

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

FIRST: File Save As ID# (J:)

Click Documents Save

That is called the ribbon.

It has all the tools you need!

Margin

********************************************************** 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!!! **********************************************************

3. Make the text of these words the color of their names: Red Blue Green Yellow Orange ********************************************************** 4. Move these words to the places that match their meaning – NO “Tab”, NO space bar!!! [HINT: Home

tab Paragraph box] Right

Left Center

********************************************************** 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!

********************************************************** 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”]! ********************************************************* 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: right click!]

I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT

YOU’RE MAKING ME

TAKE A NAP!!! I’M NOT

EVEN TIRED!!!!

********************************************************** 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:

C. Make each row of the table a different color. [Highlight the row right click Borders & Shading.] **********************************************************

10. FONTS, BOLD, ITALICS Make each one the font and size it says. Arial 10

Chiller 12

Courier Bold

Euphemia Purple Italics

Niagara Engraved Red Italics Bold 24 Mistral Grey Bold 26

11. TEXT BOXES A. Click in the white space below B. and insert a text box. Type something in it. 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: http://kidblog.org/class/2015q3/posts

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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.

BYE!

HOPE YOU

HAD FUN!

I love cats. They are so adorable, so I decided to write a short story about my cats. They are Storm-McKenna and Flamestar.

t was dark in the old house, and the humans were asleep. Of course, that meant that it was time for Stormy and Flamesie to get the kitty crazies. Stormy ran one way, and Flamesie ran the other. They ran in a circle, and they ran into each other! Storm meowed so loudly that she

woke the humans up. The cats were in big trouble!

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