Students learn about word
processing and spreadsheets mainly by working from photocopied worksheets. Often
the students are challenged to
reformat a plain text document (like the ones above) to resemble the formatted
worksheet provided by the teacher. The formatted sheet also carries the instructions.
Word Processing (Word)
Worksheet 1
Worksheet 1 is unlike the other worksheets in the
sense that the text is not provided as a computer file, therefore the
students must type the text themselves. This constitutes the typing test
described above.
Format the
typed text to look like the given photocopy, thus mastering the following
skills:
Changing font style
Changing font size
Adjusting margins
Bold, italic, underline
Alignment (centred, justified)
Columns
Indentation
Bullets
Numbering
Saving
to a different folder
Worksheet 2
Open the document WS2 using the link at
the top of this page, then format it to resemble the photocopy you have been
given in class.
Background Colors
Inserting ClipArt
Resizing graphics
Word wrap around graphics
Floating graphics versus
embedded graphics
Text box
Arrows, single and
double-headed
Line width
Worksheet 3
Open the document WS3 using the link
at the top of this page, then format it to resemble the photocopy you have been
given in class.
Search and Replace
Font format (shadow)
Headers and footers
Numbering pages
Line spacing
Inserting symbols
Page Borders
Worksheet 4
Open the document WS4 using the link
at the top of this page, then format it to resemble the photocopy you have been
given in class.
Paragraph borders
Selecting text
Undoing mistakes
Using the thesaurus (if available)
Using the spell checker (if available)
Lowercasing and uppercasing
Worksheet 5
Open the document WS5 using the link
at the top of this page, then format it to resemble the photocopy you have been
given in class.
Adding WordArt (fancy titles)
More about text boxes
Using Screen Hunter, a screen
capture program, available for download
here.
(Note that this program is distributed as 'freeware'.)
Turning the page to landscape
orientation
The zoom tool
Capturing images from the Internet
Selecting and moving text
Worksheet 6
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