Lesson 5: Doing More with WordPad

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Lesson 5 Doing More with WordPad
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Concept 5.1 Highlighting Text

• To change the format of text, you must highlight
  it first

Highlighted text has a black background
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Concept 5.1 Highlighting Text

• To highlight text, drag the mouse

Click to the right of the text you want to
highlight
The text is highlighted
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Concept 5.2 Formatting Text
Font Examples Times New RomanThis size is 24
pt. Arial BlackThis size is 32 pt. French
Script This size is 18 pt. Papyrus This size is
20 pt.

• Format text to make it look better

One way of formatting is to change the text font
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Concept 5.2 Formatting Text

• You can also change the font style

WordPads Font dialogue box
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Concept 5.2 Formatting Text

• WordPads Font dialogue box

Font Style box
Font box
Size box
Scroll arrow
Sample box
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Concept 5.3 Adding Bullets

• Use the Bullets button on the toolbar to add
  bullets to make text look more like a list

Days of the Week Sunday Monday Tuesday
Wednesday Thursday Friday

• Days of the Week
• Sunday
• Monday
• Tuesday
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday

Without bullets
With bullets
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Concept 5.4 Changing the Alignment

• Choose the text alignment by choosing an
  alignment button on the toolbar

Center
Left
Right
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Concept 5.5 Saving Your Work

• Save your work to a floppy disk or USB Flash
  Drive
• So you can move your work from one computer to
  another

USB Flash Drive
Floppy disk
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Concept 5.5 Saving Your Work

• Your work on the computer is saved in a package
  called a file
• You must give each file a name

File names
Icons for files
The process of creating a file is called saving
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Concept 5.5 Saving Your Work

• Two methods
• or
• Save buttonon the toolbar

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Concept 5.5 Saving your Work

• Chose where to save your file

Save your file with a name you will remember later
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Concept 5.6 Printing Your Work

• Two methods
• or
• Print button on the toolbar

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Concept 5.6 Printing Your Work
Your computer sends your document to the printer,
and the printer puts it onto paper
My Document
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Lesson 5

• Topic Doing More with WordPad
• Reading pages 81 -104 in the student book
• Homework Workbook pages 37 - 44