WARM-UP
- Return your hands to the keyboard.
- Open Microsoft Word
- Maximize your window
- Go to File -- Save
- Go to your Keyboarding Folder: Z:\\Keyboarding\
- Name your file "Lesson37"
- Type your Name, "Lesson 37 ", and the Date in the Header of the document.
- Type the page number in the Footer of the document.
- Type the following line three times with accuracy.
The broken trapeze was quickly fixes by Jim Gavor.
To get more pay for the work, you must do it well.
JUSTIFICATION
- Note the following types of text justification..
PRACTICE HORIZONTAL ALIGNMENT
- Save your file: File -- Save.
- Type the following paragraphs 4 times.
In Kansas, there's a law that reads: "When two trains approach each other at a railroad crossing, both shall come to a full stop and neither shall start up again until the other has gone."
- Make the following formatting adjustments:
- Left Align the 1st paragraph
- Center the 2nd paragraph.
- Right Align the 3rd paragraph
- Full Justify the 4th paragraph.
STRETCH BREAK
- Take a minute to stretch out
- Stand up
- Bend down and touch your toes
- Stretch your arms above your head
- Stretch your arms out to your sides
- Flex your fingers
PRACTICE VERTICAL ALIGNMENT
- Insert a Hard Page Break
- Save your file: File -- Save.
- Type the following.
WHAT'S A MODEM?
A Modem is a device that gives you the ability to communicate with other computers. It connects the computer with the ordinary telephone lines, which carry information in the form of electronic impulses to or from users at other locations.
- Make the following formatting adjustments:
- Center the title
- Look in the page preview to see how the text is aligned verticallly.
- Return to normal view and space down using the Enter key until the text is in the center of the page.
- Look at the page preview again and repeat until the text is centered vertically on the page
- Insert a Hard Page Break
- Type the paragraph again.
- Center the Title
- Center Vertically on the page:
- Go to FILE --> PAGE SETUP
- Select the LAYOUT tab
- Find the VERTICAL ALIGNMENT and set it to CENTER
- Find the APPLY TO and set it to THIS POINT FORWARD
- Click OK to return to your document
- Look at the page preview again to be sure text is centered vertically on the page.
PARAGRAPH PRACTICE: DOUBLE SPACING
- Insert a Hard Page Break
- Return Vertical Alignment to the Top.
- Save your file: File -- Save.
- Set your Paragraph Formatting:
- Go to FORMAT --> PARAGRAPHS
- Find LINE SPACING and set to DOUBLE
- Click OK to return to the document.
- Type the following paragraphs:
- Type each paragraph twice -- slowly, smoothly.
- Practice each word that has an error.
- Try for a perfect copy of each paragraph.
---| Christopher Sholes, born on February 14, 1819, made the first practical typewriter. In 1868, he obtained a patent for it. Touch typing, though, was first introduced in 1878 by Frank E. McGurrin.
---| Oliver Wendell Holmes was born March 8, 1841. He graduated from Harvard in 1861 and from Harvard Law School in 1866. He was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court in 1902. He died March 6, 1935.
STRETCH BREAK
- Take a minute to stretch out
- Stand up
- Bend down and touch your toes
- Stretch your arms above your head
- Stretch your arms out to your sides
- Flex your fingers
EXTRA PRACTICE
- Save your file: File -- Save
- If you have extra time after completing the assigned task:
- Enter twice after the end of the text in your current document
- Type the heading EXTRA PRACTICE in all Capital letters
- Enter twice more after typing the heading
- Repeat the lines from the current lesson
- Repeat step 4 if necessary
- Use your imagination to develop 10 lines of text using the keys that you have learned up to this point.
FINISH UP
- Double-check that your name and the date is at the top of the page
- Save your file: File -- Save
- Print to Lab Printer
- DO NOT go to printer to pick it up.Your instructor will pick up all pages at once.
This lesson derived from from Mastering Computer Typing .