1 Word Lesson 4 Working with Graphics Microsoft Office 2010 Introductory Pasewark & Pasewark

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Word Lesson 4Working with Graphics

Microsoft Office 2010 Introductory

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Working with Graphics

Graphics are pictures that help illustrate the meaning of the text and make the page more attractive.

You can add predefined shapes, diagrams, and charts as well as photographs and drawings.

You can also use the drawing tools in Word to create your own graphics.

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Creating Columns

Columns are easy to create in Word. You can choose one, two, or three columns

of equal width. You can also choose Left or Right, which creates two columns with either the left or the right column a little less than half the size of the other column.

If none of these options suits you, you can create columns of custom widths.

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Creating Columns (continued)

Columns menu

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Adding Borders and Shading to Paragraphs

You can specify a border style and whether a border appears on four sides, two sides, or one side of a paragraph.

Borders tab in the Borders and Shading dialog box

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Adding Borders and Shading to Pages

Just as you can add borders to paragraphs, you can add borders and shading to entire pages.

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Inserting Clip Art

Graphics that are already drawn or photographed and available for use in documents are called clip art.

The term clip art also refers to photographs, video clips, and sound files.

When searching for clip art the words you use to describe the clip art are called keywords.

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Inserting Clip Art (continued)

Inserting clip art

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Resizing an Object

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To resize an object, first select it, and then drag a sizing handle.

The relationship of the object's height to its width is called the aspect ratio.

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Recoloring Pictures

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You can change the brightness or contrast, or recolor an image all in one shade.

To do this, click the contextual Format tab. In the Adjust group, click the Corrections button (to adjust brightness/contrast) or Color button (to change color).

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Inserting Pictures

In Word, pictures are graphic files stored on your computer.

Pictures are inserted as an inline object at the location of the insertion point.

You can then change the object to a floating object if you want, as well as resize and reposition it, in the same manner as clip art.

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Adding Shapes

When you click a shape on the menu, the pointer changes to the crosshairs pointer. Drag the pointer to draw the shape. Drawn shapes are inserted as floating objects by default.

As with clip art objects, you can cut, copy, and paste drawn shapes as well as move and resize them.

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Adding Shapes (continued)

Shapes gallery

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Adding Shapes (continued)

You can add color and style to your drawings: – Change the color of an object. – Change the line or outline color of a drawing.– Change the line weight, or thickness, of lines or

shape outlines in your drawing. The easiest way to add text to an object, is to

click an object and start typing.

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Creating WordArt

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WordArt is stylized text that is formatted and placed in a text box.

If you select text before you click the WordArt button, the text you selected appears in the text box; otherwise “Your text here” appears as a placeholder for your text.

You can change the WordArt style, color, and outline color.

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Inserting Headers, Footers, and Page Numbers

Headers (top of page) and footers (bottom of page) allow you to include the same information, on each page of a document.

When the header or footer area is active, the Header & Footer Tools Design tab appears on the Ribbon.

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Inserting Headers, Footers, and Page Numbers (continued)

Page numbers are included in some of the header and footer styles.

Even if you choose a header or footer style that does not include page numbers, you can still insert a page number.

You can also insert the page number in an existing header or footer.

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Inserting a Cover Page

You can quickly create a cover page for your document by inserting one of the many predesigned cover pages available with Word.

Cover pages contain content controls.

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Inserting a Cover Page (continued)

Cover page gallery

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Creating Tables

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A table is an arrangement of text or numbers in rows and columns, similar to a spreadsheet. Tables are useful for organizing information. The intersection of a row and column is called a cell.

To enter text in a table, click in a cell, and then type. To move to the next cell to the right, press Tab or click in the cell.

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Creating Tables (continued)

You can modify the structure of a table by using commands on the Table Tools Layout tab on the Ribbon, including:– Inserting or deleting a row or column– Changing the width of columns– Changing the height of rows– Splitting and merging cells

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The easiest way to format a table is to use one of the many predesigned formats on the Table Tools Design tab. Options include:– Adding shading to every other row or every other

column– Manually formatting text – Changing the color of table lines and cells – Changing the alignment of text in a cell– Adding color to borders

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Live preview of a table style

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Sorting Text

Sorting arranges a list of words in ascending order (a to z) or in descending order (z to a).

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Sorting Text (continued)

Sort dialog box

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