MS Word Lesson EightFormatting and Sorting Lists

Mrs. Brown

Bell Ringer

• What is a bounding box?

Answer

• A border that displays around the edges of a selected object

Bell Ringer

• What is a Screen cliping

Answer

• A Picture of selected content currently displayed in a window open on your computer desktop.

Lets Review

• Create a list with bullets• Create a list with numbers• Start the number list with a number other

than “one”• Create a new bullet

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• Proofreader Activity• Formatting and Sorting Lists Activity

Today’s Outline

• Analyzing Objects• Inserting Pictures• Inserting a Text Box• Inserting Shapes• Resizing and Deleting Objects• Scanning Contents into Microsoft Clip

Organizer

Vocabulary Words

• AutoShapes: Pre-drawn shapes that come with Word 2010

• Bounding box: A border that displays around the edges of a selected object.

• Clip Art: Pictures, sounds, and videos that you can insert in an Office document

• Clip collection: A folder used to store clip files in the Microsoft Clip Organizer

Vocabulary Words• Device driver: Software program that provides the

instructions your computer needs to communicate with a device, such as a scanner

• Floating Object: Object that is positioned independently from the document text.

• Microsoft Clip Organizer: Folder that comes with Office containing drawings, photographs, sound, video, and other media files

• Object: A graphic, picture, chart, shape, text box, or other elements that can be inserted in a document

• Scanner: A device that converts printed documents into digital formats

Vocabulary Words• Screenshot: A picture of the content currently displayed in a

window open on your computer desktop• Screen clipping: A picture of selected content currently

displayed in a window open on your computer desktop• Sizing handles: Small symbols around the edges of a

selected object used to resize the object. Corner handles are round, and side handles are square

• Text box: Rectangular drawing object in which text or graphic images can be inserted and positioned anywhere on a page

• USB: Universal Serial Bus. Type of connection used to attached devices such as flash drives, scanners, cameras, and printers to a computer

Lets Practice using shapesCreate a Rectangle shape

(Hold down the shift key)

Select objectDeselect objectUse resizing handles

Lets Practice using Clipart

• Pre-drawn pictures that can be inserted. Includes photographs, sound, and video

• Screenshot• Insert Pictures• Insert Pictures using a

text box

Using Text Boxes • Text boxes allow you to

position blocks of text on a page or change direction of the text

• There are several different styles

Assignment

• Complete all Try Its in this lesson– Please show me each completed document

• Complete Project 15 and 16

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