Chapter 2: Editing Spotlight on Word ProcessingChapter 21
Align text at the left, right, and center Justify text Check the spelling and grammar of a document Double-space the text Use the thesaurus Find and replace text Differentiate between cut and copy Cut, copy, and paste text Spotlight on Word ProcessingChapter 22
alignment antonym clipboard copy cut Spotlight on Word ProcessingChapter 23 default setting justified paste synonym thesaurus
Default alignment is at the left. Left aligned text is smooth on the left and jagged at the right. Hold Ctrl and press the letter L to left align the line or paragraph. Click Align Text Left button on the Home Ribbon. Spotlight on Word ProcessingChapter 24
Centered text is jagged on both sides, centered on the line. Click the Center button on the Home Ribbon. Hold Ctrl and press the letter E to center a line or paragraph. Spotlight on Word ProcessingChapter 25
Right aligned text is smooth on the right and jagged on the left. Click the Align Text Right button on the Home Ribbon. Hold Ctrl and press the letter R to right align a line or paragraph. Spotlight on Word ProcessingChapter 26
Justified text is smooth on both sides. Click the Justify button on the Home Ribbon. Hold Ctrl and press the letter J to justify a line or paragraph. Spotlight on Word ProcessingChapter 27
Red squiggly lines mean a misspelled word. Green squiggly lines mean a grammatical error. Click the Spelling & Grammar button on the Review Ribbon. Press F7 to start the spelling and grammar checker. Spotlight on Word ProcessingChapter 28
Click Insert from the Home Ribbon. Type name at the left. Hour/day in the center. Assignment name at the right. Spotlight on Word ProcessingChapter 29
Select text first if more than one paragraph. Click the Line Spacing button on the Home Ribbon. Hold Ctrl and press the number 2 to double- space. Spotlight on Word ProcessingChapter 210
Tool that lists synonyms and antonyms for words. Click the Thesaurus button on the Review Ribbon. Right-click and choose synonyms. Hold Shift and press F7. Spotlight on Word ProcessingChapter 211
Click Find from the Home Ribbon. Find will place your cursor at the beginning of each occurrence of the word. Click Replace from the Home Ribbon. Replace will actually replace a word or formatting with something else. Spotlight on Word ProcessingChapter 212
Original text or object stays in the document when copying. “Copy” of item is stored to the clipboard in computer’s memory. Click the Copy button on the Home Ribbon. Can paste an unlimited number of times. Click the Paste button on the Home Ribbon. Spotlight on Word ProcessingChapter 213
Original text or object is removed from document when cutting. Item is saved to clipboard. Click the Cut button on the Home Ribbon. Spotlight on Word ProcessingChapter 214
Hold Ctrl and press the letter C to copy. Hold Ctrl and press the letter V to paste. Hold Ctrl and press the letter X to cut. Spotlight on Word ProcessingChapter 215
The default setting is left-aligned text. Text can be changed to left-, center-, right-aligned, or justified. Red squiggly lines in the text indicate a misspelled word. Green squiggly lines in the text indicate a mistake in grammar. If you want to change the alignment of more than one paragraph, select the text first. There are also keyboard shortcuts to align the text. Spotlight on Word ProcessingChapter 216
A header is text that can be inserted at the top of every page of a document. The thesaurus shows both synonyms and antonyms for words. The Replace tool is a quick way to replace several occurrences of text. Cutting removes the selected text and places it on the clipboard. Copying makes a copy of the selected text and places it on the clipboard. Pasting takes whatever is on the clipboard and places it in the document. You can paste an unlimited number of times. Chapter 217Spotlight on Word Processing