Ask students what they think formatting means? Organizing the information in your document, emphasizing certain words/phrases Explain that Word provides the tools to format text out the ribbon: Point the ribbon is the space at the top of the Word screen that includes the toolbars and menu tabs. Technically, the ribbon only exists on the newer versions of Word, but students will be tested on it, so pretend the toolbar area is called the ribbon Step 3: What is the ribbon? Ribbon is where all of the toolbars and tabs are to format your document Explain compare to a folder, tab labels what is inside Menu Tabs - Explain toolbars- format and standard are the ones needed most commonly. learners to over the button that looks like a B without clicking; they should see a Instruct small text box that pops up that says what the button does Click on the Bold button>type your name Have students use this hover tool to see what other buttons do Most common- Font, Font Size, bold, underline, italics Step 4: Highlighting text Explain how to highlight text: use click and drag Students should write a sentence about themselves, something as simply as favorite color is “My blue”. Demonstrate highlighting the whole sentence and then click on italics Instruct learners to do the same after you do Demonstrate highlighting one or two words and then change the font to Ariel Instruct learners to do the same after you do Explain that users can highlight as much or as little of the text as they want Step 4: Independent Practice Instruct learners to close out of the document they have opened, the exercise will have them start fresh Hand out and have students complete Microsoft Word: Exercise 1 Circulate to answer questions, make corrections
Ask students what they think formatting means? Organizing the information in your document, emphasizing certain words/phrases Explain that Word provides the tools to format text Point out the ribbon: the ribbon is the space at the top of the Word screen that includes the toolbars and menu tabs. Technically, the ribbon only exists on the newer versions of Word, but students will be tested on it, so pretend the toolbar area is called the ribbon Step 3: What is the ribbon? Ribbon is where all of the toolbars and tabs are to format your document Explain Menu Tabs - compare to a folder, tab labels what is inside Explain toolbars- format and standard are the ones needed most commonly. Instruct learners to over the button that looks like a B without clicking; they should see a small text box that pops up that says what the button does Click on the Bold button>type your name Have students use this hover tool to see what other buttons do Most common- Font, Font Size, bold, underline, italics Step 4: Highlighting text Explain how to highlight text: use click and drag Students should write a sentence about themselves, something as simply as “My favorite color is blue”. Demonstrate highlighting the whole sentence and then click on italics Instruct learners to do the same after you do Demonstrate highlighting one or two words and then change the font to Ariel Instruct learners to do the same after you do Explain that users can highlight as much or as little of the text as they want Step 4: Independent Practice Instruct learners to close out of the document they have opened, the exercise will have them start fresh Hand out and have students complete Microsoft Word: Exercise 1 Circulate to answer questions, make corrections
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