prepare letters, resumes, reports, newsletter, mailing labels 

Advantages over traditional typewriter:

- more formatting features

- save, modified, reuse of documents

- more advanced functions: Grammar checker, thesaurus, mail merge (Practical 2)

Practical 2:

Prepare a Certificate

Prepare Data (Spreadsheet, database, Table of MS-Word)

Preform mail merge

Basic operation:

Creating, saving, printing of documents

Insert text with keyboard, image scanner with OCR (Optical character recognition) software

Comparison with different file type: Refer to P.166 of Textbook

To save environment, use print preview before printing.

Word wrap

6.2 Basic editing

- Insertion and overtype

- cut, copy, paste (Paste special)

- Finding and replace

Practical 3: Finding and replace

6.3 Formatting features

- Page setup: Page layout, margin, paper size, orientation (portrait, landscape)

- Apply to whole documents or sections (Demonstration of Junior form notes)

- paragraph properties : line spacing, justification (right/centered/left aligned , full justified), indent.

- Text attributes: bold, Italics, underline, font size, font color etc.

- Insert and manipulate graphics, word art.

- organizing graphics and text with frames.

- Tables (row, column, merge cells

- columns

6.4 advanced word processing features

- Table of contents. (Generate table of contents) - use heading to define the TOC.

- Index

- footnotes

- Insert hyperlink, bookmark

- Auto Correct

- Automation and predefined formatting

Homework: Self-assessment corner. (P.205)