Suite Tools-Word Processing Mission

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Word Processing Quest 1: Tools and Menus

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Introduction

In this Quest you will create a new document and type in the content provided below. Your challenge is to learn to use formatting features in this document. When you are done we expect you will be able to:

  • - use styles to create a heading
  • - change the font
  • - format the text with bold, italics, underline
  • - change colors of the text and highlight text
  • - use the alignment tools to center or right align text


Step 1 - Create a new document and type the poem below:

  • * Go to the View Menu and make sure there is a check next to "Show Spelling Suggestions" (or click on it to turn the Spelling Checker on). 

 

  • Rain of Leaves
  • It's raining big,
  • It's raining small,
  • It's raining autumn leaves
  • In fall.
  • It's raining gold
  • And red and brown
  • As autumn leaves
  • Come raining down.
  • It's raining everywhere
  • I look.
  • It's raining bookmarks

Step 2 - Put 1 space between the title and the stanza. Name the document, Rain of Leaves Poem.   

Step 3 - Change Title Heading Style to Title.

Step 4 - Change Font on poem and author to Comic Sans MS.

Step 5 - Change the size of the poem to Size 24.

Step 6 - Bold the word "raining".

Step 7 - Italic the "by Aileen Fisher".

Step 8 - Underline the title.

Step 9 - Change the color words to their color.

Step 10 - Change the word "leaves" to green.

Step 11 - Change the words "raining/rain" to blue.

Step 12 - Text background the word "autumn" orange.

Step 13 - Text background "Aileen Fisher" purple.

Step 14 - Center the title

Step 15 - Right align the author's line and add a space between the stanza and the author line. 

Step 16 - Change the line "It's raining small" to Heading 3.

Step 17 - Now glance through your entire document and see if there are any words underlined with a red dotted line indicating that there may be a spelling error.  If you find any errors, be sure to correct them.

 


Additional Resources

External Link    Google Docs Help from Google  
External Link     MSU Tutorial - Using Google Docs

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