Word Practice Exercises

*** If you make a mistake at any time in these exercises, REMEMBER THE MAGIC UNDO BUTTON!!

Exercise 1:

Save

Save this file as a Word 97-2003 Document with the name Word Practice Exercise2 your name. (Use your
actual name; dont just type your name! )

Exercise 2:

Set Up Your Page

In this exercise well work on setting up the page. See if you can do the following:
Change the margins for this document to be: Left: 2 Right 2 Top: 1 Bottom: 1
Change the page orientation to Portrait

Exercise 3:

Formatting Text

Can you find all your familiar text formatting tools? Follow the instructions below to see!
Change this sentence to 12 point Ravie.
Change this sentence to 14 point Garamond Antiqua.

Change The Case Of This Sentence To Sentence Case. (Dont do it manually! Find the Word function.)
Change the color of this sentence to purple.

Exercise 4:

Formatting Paragraphs

Now see if you can do some paragraph formatting.

Align this sentence to the right.
Align this sentence in the center.

Turn the following list into a bulleted list:

milk
bread
peanut butter

Change the spacing of the following text to double spaced.

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;
And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap.

Make the ruler visible so you can see where your margins, tabs, and indents are.
Indent this sentence 1 in from the margin.

Exercise 5:

Hyperlinks

Type in our class website and change it to a hyperlink

Exercise 6:

Columns

Give this challenge a try:

Change the following list into 2 columns:

Apples
Oranges
Grapes
Bananas
Pineapples
Papaya
Mango
Avocado
Peach
Plum

Exercise 7:

Shapes

Show what you know how to do with shapes.

Insert any shape that you would like and perform the following tasks

Change the fill color to one color and the outline color to another color

Change the thickness (weight) of the outline to 6

Exercise 8:

Find and Replace

Give this challenge a try:

Use Find and Replace to replace a middle school with the middle school that you actually attend.
I attend a middle school in Savannah, Georgia. A middle school is the best school in Chatham County. I love
attending a middle school.

Exercise 9:

Inserting Things

Explore the Insert tab with these practice exercises:

Insert a page break.
Use Microsoft Clip Art (not Google images!) to insert a picture of a teacher any teacher you like!
After you have inserted your teacher, copy and paste the image, change its size to be bigger than the original.
Copy and paste the original image again, change its size to be smaller than the original.

[Insert original Image Here]

[Insert bigger Image Here]

[Insert smaller Image Here]

Exercise 7: Set Up Your Page (advanced)

In this exercise well work on setting up the page. See if you can do the following:
Give this document a decorative border.
Change the page color of the document.

Exercise 8: Explore a Little More

Give these challenges a try:
Change the Zoom level to 100%. Now set it to 50%. And finally, set it wherever is easiest for you to read this
document.
Select the previous sentence. How many words are in that sentence? How about in this entire document?
Add a couple of items to your Quick Launch Toolbar.
Create a pdf version of this document and save. Submit the pdf version to Edmodo for grading.