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

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.

  1. Style the headings using the standard headings
    1. show how to modify based on selection
  2. Create style for the block quotes
    1. Show how to create based on selection
    2. Show how to modify after creation
  3. Use section breaks to put in landscape page
    1. Show page numbers in Header.Footer
  4. Create TOC with tab stops, indents and leaders using the tab stop menu
  5. Create a running header and page number