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Exercises with
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To complete
these exercises you'll need Microsoft WordPad or another word
processor capable of editing Rich Text Files. WordPad should
be installed in the Accessories folder of your Program menu.
Download Document.RTF to your My
Documents folder then open it with WordPad or your RTF editor.
In recent years most software developers have adapted Windows
standard commands and icon art so chances are good that the menu and
tool bar of your word processor looks like the image below.
If you move your mouse around on the image of our WordPad
document you'll notice that the mouse pointer changes from an arrow
to a hand when it hovers over certain areas. Those areas where the
mouse pointer becomes a hand are Hot Spots. If you click on a Hot
Spot the page will be repositioned to an explanation of the command. You can then
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Exercise 1 - Select all the text in the document and change the font to
Times New Roman then change it back. How?
Exercise 2 - Move the first quotation by Thomas Jefferson to the end of
the document. How?
Exercise 3 - Undo the above
Exercise 4 - Change the first Jefferson quotation to match this format:
'"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every
form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson
Exercise 5 - Change the 2nd Jefferson quote to look like this:
'"The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for
its trappings of interest or power, can never be divorced from it, can
never refuse to come forward when he finds that she is engaged in dangers
which he has the means of warding off." --Thomas Jefferson
Menu and Button Command Explanations
File
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| New - Creates a
new, empty document |
| Open - Opens a
browse window to allow a search |
| Save - Writes
the document displayed on the screen to disk |
| Opens a browse window to allow a
search |
| Print - Sends
the document to the default printer |
| Print
Preview - Opens a window that represents the printed page |
| Opens the printer dialog windows |
| Recent File 1 |
| Recent File 1 |
| Recent File 1 |
| Recent File 1 |
| May not appear on all operating
systems |
| Close the application |
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Edit
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| Removes or negates the last
change that you made |
| Removes the selected
(highlighted) text or object and places it on the clipboard |
| Places the selected text on the
clipboard |
| Inserts the text or other objects
into your document at the cursor position |
| See your word processor's help
section |
| Removes the selected text or
object |
| Selects all the text and objects
in the document |
| Find - Finds a
specific block of text |
| Finds the next instance of the
specific block of text |
| Replaces the found text with new
text |
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View
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| When checked the Toolbar is
visible |
| When checked the Format Bar is
visible |
| When checked the Ruler is visible |
| When checked the Status Bar is
visible |
| Opens the Options window |
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Insert
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| Inserts the date/time
at the cursor position |
Inserts an object at the cursor position |
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You can also insert objects by pasting them from the clipboard to the
cursor location
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Format
Format Font
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How To:
Exercise 1
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Move
To move text you can use cut and paste. First select the text by:
- Positioning your mouse pointer at the end of the text
- Click the left mouse button
- While hold down the left mouse button, move the mouse pointer to the
line of text above that reads Arial 10 Western.
Now that the text is selected you can either use the Ctrl - X keyboard
shortcut or you can use the menu Edit/Cut command.
Now the text that you selected has been removed from the document to
the clipboard.
Press and hold Ctrl and then press the End key to go to the end of your
document. Position the cursor below the Aristotle quote and paste the text
in using Ctrl - V or paste from the edit menu/
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