6th Grade Media Curriculum
Greenwich Middle Schools, Gree nwich, CT
February 2007
Word Processing Formatting Exercise
o Highlight and copy (C) paragraphs from your letter
o Paste (V) into a new word processing document
o Save as “About Me” into your Computer Skills folder.
o Pull down the File menu -choose Page Setup
♣ Change orientation to landscape (horizontal)
o Insert a header (hint: look under the View menu at the top)
♣ Left justify your name, period and date in header
o Switch to footer (there’s a button for this in the header/footer
toolbar)
♣ Use AutoText to add page number to the footer
♣ Close the header/footer toolbar
♣ Save (S)
o In the Formatting Palette, open Font and Alignment and
Spacing
♣ Select all – A.
♣ Change font to Geneva, size 12,
♣ Change line spacing to 1.5
♣ Save.
o Open Document in the Formatting Palette
♣ Change left and right margins to 0.7
o Add title:
♣ Center
♣ Bold
♣ Size 16
♣ PRESS RETURN.
o Insert Break – Section Break (Continuous)
o Highlight paragraphs only and format for two columns
o At end of first paragraph, insert a table with 2 columns and 8
rows (look under the Table menu at the top).
♣ Title the left column “Period.”
♣ Title the right column “Class.”
♣ List period numbers and classes for today.
♣ Save.
o Insert one clipart of your own choice into the middle of the 2nd
paragraph.
♣ Grab a corner and resize to 1 inch high.
o Wrap text around clipart:
♣ Open Wrapping in Formatting Palette.
♣ Click In line with text
♣ Choose Tight.
o Save.
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