CIS 251 – Lesson 8 Creating a Multiple-Page Report Rod Rodrigues

Tutorial 3 Positioning text by using spaces or hard- returns Never Tab Stops Should you ever have Tab-Tab? Page Breaks Section Break Add a Header Create a Table

Columnar work Two types of columns that are handled in entirely different ways. Parallel columns, where the word flow goes from left to right, slipping over some white space (like a telephone directory) - Tabs Newspaper style columns, where word flows down and wraps to the top of the next column automatically. Section columns

Tab Stops

Section Columns For newspaper style columns, start by using a Section break (continuous) Then change to columns (Format > Columns ) At end of column, use Section break (continuous) to return to a single column.

Paragraph Styles Maximum flexibility by using styles Format > Styles The Paragraph properties Dialog Box. Has the advantage of controlling MANY paragraphs at the same time – even a whole document

Page Break and Section Break

Center a Page Vertically

Add a Header This figure illustrates a document with the header area active. The main text area is dimmed, indicating that it is not currently active, and the cursor is in the header area. The Header and Footer toolbar is also displayed while the header or footer area is active.

Create a Table This figure shows the common elements of a Word table. Tables divide data into rows and columns. Table borders help to identify the various cells of the table.

Table Navigation

A Sorted Table The figure below illustrates a Word table with the rows sorted in ascending, alphabetical order.

Insert and delete rows This chart shows several methods for inserting and deleting rows and columns in a table.

Align Cell Data

The Table Properties Dialog Box

A Table with Shaded Headers

Convert Tables to Tabbed Text Click upper left corner of a table. Then use Tables, Convert Note that the process is reverssoble.

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