09 - DL - Word Processing L2

• Computing
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

DL - Word Processing L2

Tools and features

Moving text to left, right or centre is known as

1. Customisation
2. Alignment
3. Format
4. Style

Which mode will make your font slightly emphasised by making it look a little slanted

1. Font
2. Italics
3. Bold
4. Underline

What one word answer means the style/kind of writing you are using (eg Arial)

What tool allows you to lay out lists of items in an ordered way

1. Copy/Paste
2. Thesaurus
3. Stylesheet
4. Bullets

This Week

New core tools to use include:

• Inserting Tables, formatting and using them
• Spellcheck, grammar check and Synonyms (Thesaurus)
• Stylesheets - what they are and how to use them
• Contents page - using the previous style sheet

Teacher DEMO

Demo tools in:

Spellchecker - (use, adding to dictionary, auto correct)

Grammar check - blue underline

Find and replace (like for a Name)

Thesaurus (Synonym)

TASK

Using online office 365 write a short story about a student at Garibaldi who discovers a secret entrance to an enchanted land for a few minutes.

Then open review>editor and look over the grammar suggestions

Then look for potential synonym changes

Teacher DEMO

Demo the use of Stylesheets to control text sections

Demo how a contents page can be added to link to styles automatically.

TASK

Add suitable titles and chapter headings using stylesheets to your story.  It is worth pretending to have more than one chapter over a few pages to see the impact.

Then insert a contents page at the start of the book

Tables

What is a table?

Why are they useful?

What can we use them for?

Teacher DEMO

Inserting table

Formatting (colours, layout, adding rows etc)

Navigating (tab use)

TASK - Make this is Word

Extension

Continue your story and use the tools you have learnt in the session to improve your writing and layout.

You can use other skills learnt from last week too.

Brain storm the new tools you learnt about today

What tool did you find most useful and how will you use it moving forward?