FOE1000 Professional Communication in Education

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FOE1000 Professional Communication in Education

• Word processingPeter Albion

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Its like driving a car

• Every car has headlights and wipers
• But the controls are different
• You just have to look for them

• Every word processor has core tools
• But the controls are different
• You just have to look for them

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Word processing -start to finish

• Draft your document
• Revise your document
• Format your document
• Print your document
• Distribute your document

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Did we forget anything?

• Save your document
• How often should you save?
• As often as you do anything you would not want to
  lose
• Set autosave

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Lets assume

• You know how to
• Start your word processor
• Type text into a document
• Save a document
• Print a document

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Whats left?

• Format your document
• Make it support your words
• Make it communicate
• Make it look professional

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Why format at the end?

• Substance is more important than appearance
• Form(at) follows function
• Form(at) supports function

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Format menu

• Gathers tools in one place
• Tools are also available in palettes and toolbars

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Format is hierarchical
Character
Paragraph
Document, Section, Page
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Top level (1)

• Setting margins
• Apply to
• whole document
• a section

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Top level (2)

• Control section start
• Headers footers
• Vertical alignment
• Borders

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Page setup

• Paper size
• Orientation
• Apply to all or section

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Paragraph (1)

• Alignment
• Left
• Right
• Centre
• Justified
• Indents
• Left
• Right
• Hanging
• Spacing
• Between lines
• Between paragraphs

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Paragraph (2)

• Breaks across pages
• Widows
• Orphans
• Keep heading with next paragraph

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Character

• Typeface (font)
• Size (points)
• Style effects

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Page layout

• Placing content effectively
• Word processor naturally fills line by line
• Layout requires structure to hold content in place

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Let it flow

• Single or multiple column
• Images
• Flow with text
• Wrap text around

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Using tables

• Table cells hold text and images
• Make borders invisible for best effect

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Text boxes and frames

• Text in boxes or frames
• Is editable
• Can be placed like an image

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No substitute for experience

• Numerous possible techniques
• Most are simple
• Learn by experiment
• Work on a copy