Word: Paper Formatting
Objectives
General
Students will:
- Understand document layout (Where headers, footers, main text area, etc. are)
- Understand the concept of Styles and how they work across a document
Specific
Students will:
- Understand indents and tab stops and how to apply them.
- Be able to use Styles
- Application
- Modification
- Understand how styles allow for the creation of a Table of Contents
- Be able to implement page and section breaks
- Be able to insert a header and footer
- Page numbers and Date
- Understand how headers/footers are effected by page/section breaks
Outline
- Hook.
- Styles
- Change Styles
- Modifying Styles
- Creating Styles
- Navigation Pane
- Page and Section Breaks
- Potential examples
- One landscape page in a sea of portrait
- Once page numbers are taught, explain with page numbers
- Potential examples
- Indents and Tabs
- Different Tab Stop types
- Leaders
- Indents/Tabs menu
- Different Tab Stop types
- Header/Footer
- Page numbers
- Running header/footer text with page numbers
- Different Odd/Even page
- Conclusion
- Recap the class and Preview Table of Contents Day
Possible Questions for Understanding
- Styles
- What do styles allow us to do?
- How do we apply styles?
- If the style we want isn’t in the styles menu, how can we create a new one?
- What area of a document does a style apply to?
- Page and Section Breaks
- What does inserting a section break do to your document?
- What are the different types of section breaks?
- Indents
- How can open the ruler view?
- Which part of the index marker indicates what type of indent?
- Tab Stops
- How do you cycle between the different type of Tab Stops?
- How do you add a tab stop as well as delete it?
- What part of a document does it apply to?
- How do you add a leader to a tab stop area?
- Header and Footer
- How are headers and footers effected by section breaks?
- How do you add page numbers to a header? To a footer?
Hook
Create your own file to demonstrate styles, or use the unfinished practice file and compare it to the finished file side by side on screen.
Activity
Great Expectations Historical File
Activity Breakdown
Formatting notes: There are some paragraphs in the document that have large first line indents, this indicates that the paragraph is a block quote.
- Style the headings using the standard headings
- show how to modify based on selection
- Create style for the block quotes
- Show how to create based on selection
- Show how to modify after creation
- Use section breaks to put in landscape page
- Show page numbers in Header.Footer
- Create TOC with tab stops, indents and leaders using the tab stop menu
- Create a running header and page number