2002 Prentice Hall.

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Revolution in Writing

• From Word Processing to Paperless Publishing

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Topics

• The Word Processing Process
• The Wordsmiths Toolbox
• The Desktop Publishing Story
• Tomorrows Word Tools

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The Word Processing Process

• Word processing involves the following steps
• Entering text
• Editing text
• Formatting proofreading the document
• Saving the document on disk
• Printing the document

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Editing Text

• Write and refine a document easily by
• navigating to different parts of a document
• inserting or deleting text at any point
• moving copying text
• searching and replacing words or phrases

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Search and Replace

• The command Edit -gt Replace brings up a dialog
  box where you can enter the text to be found and
  the text to replace it with.
• Use the Match case or Find whole words only
  options to refine the search.
• Be careful using the Replace All option. It does
  not prompt you for each change. If you replace
  his with hers, the word history will become
  herstory. The undo option is not available
  with Replace All.

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Formatting Text

• Formatting refers to how the words look on a
  page.
• WYSIWIG (What you see is what you get)
• What you see on the screen is a close
  approximation of what you will see on paper
• Types of formatting
• Character
• Line Paragraph
• Entire Document

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Character Formatting

• Characters are measured by point size with
  onepoint equal to 1/72 inch.

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All About Fonts

• A font is a size and style of typeface.
• Serif fonts have serifs or fine lines at the ends.

Sans-serif fonts have plainer, cleaner lines.
Arial
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Paragraph Formatting

• Formatting for paragraphs involve margin
  settings, line spacing, indents, tabs and
  justification.

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Paragraph Indentation
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Tab Stops

• The picture below shows 4 tab stops left aligned
  at 0.25, right aligned at 3.5, centered at 5,
  and decimal aligned at 7.5. The tab key was
  then used to separate the sections.

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Document Formatting

• You can impact the appearance of an entire
  document through the following
• Templates and wizards
• Headers and footers
• Multiple columns
• Automatic editing features
• Conversion to HTML for web publishing

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Columns and breaks
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Hidden commands
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