Word Processing II Exercise

A reminder about academic honesty:
Every student must do his or her own work. You may work with another student, but you may not submit a copy of someone else's work as your own.

What to do How to do it
Save a copy of the the exercise file word2.doc to your floppy disk. Use the methods in the Word Processing I exercise.
Open your copy of the file. Use the methods in the Word Processing I exercise.
Center and enlarge the heading "Catatech Industries: The Question of Electronic Commerce".
  1. Select the heading (e.g. by dragging, by holding the shift key and pressing the right arrow key, or by clicking in the left margin)
  2. Click the Center button on the formatting toolbar, or click Format, Paragraph, and choose Centered from the Alignment menu
  3. Choose a larger font size (e.g. 16 point) from the pull-down menu
Add a line "Modified by <your name>" after the heading line.
  1. Click at the beginning of the second line
  2. Type "Modified by <your name>" and press Enter
Right-align the acknowledgment and copyright paragraphs (between the dotted lines).
  1. Select by dragging from Sarah to "email to Espen Andersen."
  2. Click the Align Right button
Indent the three lines at the bottom of the document by one inch (or 2.5 cm).
  1. If the ruler is not visible, click View, Ruler.
  2. Select the last three lines by dragging.
  3. Click the Increase Indent button twice, OR:
  4. Click Format, Paragraph.
  5. For left indent type 1.0 in or 2.5 cm.
  6. Click OK.

Select the paragraphs in the body of the document.
  1. Click to position the cursor before "In 1998".
  2. Scroll down to the bottom.
  3. Hold down the shift and click to position the cursor after "Marisa thought."

 
Full-justify these paragraphs.
  1. Click the Justify button.
Indent the first line of each of these paragraphs.
  1. Click Format, Paragraph.
  2. In the Indentation section, select the Special menu and select First line.
  3. Click OK.
Use 6 pt spacing after each paragraph.
  1. Click Format, Paragraph.
  2. In the Spacing section, click in the After box and type 6 pt.
  3. Click OK.
Use one and a half line spacing for these paragraphs.
  1. Click Format, Paragraph.
  2. In the Spacing section, select the Line spacing menu and select 1.5 line.
  3. Click OK.
Put these paragraphs in two equally spaced columns with a line between them.
  1. Click Format, Columns.
  2. Click the Two preset.
  3. Put a tick in the "line between" check box.
  4. Click OK.
For each heading "Company Background", "The IT Organization", "The Current Dilemma", select it, enlarge, and use 3 pt spacing after it.
  1. Select each header by clicking to the left of the header in the left margin.
  2. Select 14 point from the font size menu.
  3. Click Format, Paragraph.
  4. In the Spacing section, click in the After box and type 3 pt.
  5. Click OK.

Before the heading "The Current Dilemma" add the following lines using tab stops at about 1" and 2" (2.5 cm and 5 cm). Note that the numbers are right-aligned.

Country City
Staff
USA Rockford
32
Spain Madrid
80
Singapore Singapore
30
  1. Click at the end of the line before the header "The Current Dilemma".
  2. Press Enter to get a new line.
  3. Click Format, Paragraph.
  4. In the Indentation section, select the Special menu and select None.
  5. In the Spacing section, click in the After box and type 0 pt.
  6. Select single from the Line spacing menu.
  7. Click OK.
  8. Click at the 1 in or 2.5 cm position on the ruler to set a left tab (looks like an L).
  9. Click the tab type button twice to see the right tab symbol (looks like a backward L).
  10. Click at the 2 in or 5 cm position on the ruler to set a right tab
  11. After typing each field, press the Tab key.
  12. After typing each line, press Enter as usual.
  13. Select the Country line and click the Bold button.
Sort the lines to be in decreasing order of number of staff.
  1. Select the four lines of text you just typed.
  2. Click Table, Sort.
  3. Click the Header row radio button.
  4. Select the Sort by: menu and select Staff.
  5. Click the Descending radio button.
  6. Click OK.

After your name add the following table. Columns should be just wide enough for the text to fit.

Company Catatech Industries
Products Electric measuring tools
Revenues, 1998 US$ 2,000,000,000
Year Founded 1911
Founder Jose Fernandez
CEO Carlos Fernandez
CIO Marisa Rivera
Common Systems Finance, ERP, Manufacturing
  1. Click at the end of your name on the second line.
  2. Press Enter to get a new line.
  3. Click Table, Insert, Table.
  4. Type 2 for columns, press Tab and type 8 for rows.
  5. Click the AutoFit to Contents radio button.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Click in the upper left cell and type Company.
  8. Press the Tab key to move to the next cell or Shift-Tab to move to the previous cell.
Add a dark outside border to the table.
  1. Click inside any table cell.
  2. Click Table, Select, Table.
  3. Click Format, Borders and Shading
  4. Select the Grid setting.
  5. Select 2 1/4 pt from the Width menu.
  6. Click OK.
Select the left column, right-align its cells and add 20% grey shading.
  1. Move the cursor to the top of the left column so it becomes a black arrow pointing downward, and click once to select the column; or drag from the top cell to the bottom cell.
  2. Click the Align Right button.
  3. Click Format, Borders and Shading, Shading.
  4. Click different shades of gray until you see "Gray-20%".
  5. Click OK.
Save your changes to the document and exit.
  1. Press Ctrl-S to save the document
  2. Press Alt-F4 to close Word