VBQU149 Create texts of some complexity

Columns Making columns in Microsoft Word Open word and blank page type =rand() Go to page layout, then columns and experiment

Columns Columns may need adjusting to fit headings This button brings up the paragraph options

Columns Going to the more column menu helps to give more options

Columns What if you don’t want the whole document to be columns. Put your cursor at the start of the text you wish to column On the page layout tab go to page Breaks and choose continuous

Columns Go to the end of the paragraph and do the same again with the continuous page break Now turn on your formatting tool to see where the page breaks are Now go back to the page layout tab choose columns and experiment with different types of columns Your text that is not with in the page break should stay the same while the text within the break should column as specified by your selection

Labels Printing labels Go to the mailings tab Go to the labels tab choose individual label's Type the address you wish to put into the box…. Then full page of the same label

Find and Replace Text How to find and replace text in a word document Press the editing button then the find button

Find and Replace Text By initiating the find button the left plain will open for easy navigation Type the word you are looking for in the search box and will bring up all locations of that word Replacing text is on the same editing button this time clicking replace

Find and Replace Text Find what: is the box where you type the word ypu want to find Replace with: is what you want to replace it with

Tabs You will need your ruler, that is under the view tab At the end of the ruler you will see the tab key variations button The L indicates the left align tab

Tabs By clicking in the ruler your tab will be anchored to that spot All tabs that are default are wiped and your tab is the new tab Click and drag downwards erases the tab

Tabs Center tab Right tab

Tabs Decimal point tab this will place the decimal point in the center of the tab

Tabs

Making a Poster Open a blank document in Microsoft Word Change the margins Narrow Go to insert then shapes then drawing canvas

Making a Poster Extend the drawing canvas to the edge of the page Right click on canvas for formatting In front of text Go to colors and lines

Making a Poster Colours and lines choosing a fill colour Go to fill effects

Making a Poster Making a gradient background Choose two colours Mouse over click colour

Making a Poster Making gradient to what you want Green is the first colour and white is the second colour Transparency can be changed and the angle can be changed This example is 52% transparency and Horizontal line

Making a Poster Adding a line around the edge of the poster by choosing line Colour burgundy line style and 3pt weight Note – I changed mine to blue

Making a Poster Your poster should look something like this now Input auto shape Rectangle and place up the top of the document

Making a Poster Right click the shape and choose format shape Format AutoShape Fill effects

Making a Poster Putting a picture in the AutoShape Choose picture

Making a Poster This will take you to a picture folder Download pictures from website right click shape and insert the picture and make transparency right click shape and insert the picture and make transparency

Making a Poster Insert a text box underneath the picture box about the same size Type the words Choose font Space accordingly You can right click the text box and format text I changed my text colour to match the border

Making a Poster Adding a circle with the AutoShapes Hold down the shift down to get a perfect circle Copy and paste two more circles so there should be three equal sized circles Right click one circle to format picture

Making a Poster Fill effects with pictures Picture tab

Making a Poster Your poster should now be coming to life Alert words Pictures aligned Another text box with this text Right click bullets to change the bullet structure Match font colour

Making a Poster Adding another textbox for your details Set tabs 5 and 12

Making a Poster Format the shape by right clicking and picking a fill colour making it a solid box – change the text to white

Making a Poster Finishing off with another text box

Making a Poster Final poster you may tweak until you are happy