MS-WORD Practical Assignment

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Assignment No. 1
Mastering the Basics of Word

Expected Outcome

1. Creating Word Documents.

2. Editing Document Text.

3. Applying Text Enhancements.

4. Aligning and Formatting.

5. Adding lists, numbers, Symbols and Date/Time

6. Replacing and Checking Text

1. Open a new Word Document. Enter two or three lines of text. Intentionally misspell a
word and notice that it is marked with a wavy red underline. Enter a grammatically
incorrect sentence and notice that it is marked with a green line. Move the insertion
point to the beginning of the document and delete each word in the first sentence.

2. Enter a few more lines of text. Apply at test 3 different fonts and font styles to this
text. Highlight a sentence; remove the highlight.

3. Type you name on a new line. Change it to a 24-point font of your choice. Copy your
name five times. Apply a different special effect to each. Underline two of the copies,
using a different underline style for each.

4. In a new document set the left tab at .5, a centre tab at 2, a right tab at 4.25 and a
decimal tab at 5 and then enter the following text

TODAYS SCHEDULE

Employee Shift responsibility Shift Hours Rate

Ram Nivas room shelves 7.30 am to 2.30 pm Rs 50.50

Jeevan Lal purchasing 10.00 am to 5.30pm Rs 80.25
S.K. Gupta dispatch 12.00 am to 9.30 pm Rs 75.70

5. Enter a list of 10 things you have to do this week. Number the list. Select the list
again and turn on the bullet. Change the bullet symbol to any other character.

6. Move to the top of the document (Ctrl + Home) and Insert Date and time. Enable
Update Automatically (What is the effect of the latter?)

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7. Create and store an AutoText entry for your return address, including formatting, to
be used on personal correspondence.

8. Check the spelling and grammar in an existing document. Use the “Replace All”
option in Find and Replace to replace each instance of some word.

9. Use Thesaurus to find synonyms (meanings) for some word.

10. Create and print an envelope that includes your return address. Create a full page of
return labels for yourself.

Assignment No. 2
Advanced Formatting Techniques in Word

Expected Outcome

1. Formatting Pages.

2. Working with Columns.

3. Constructing High-Quality Tables.

4. Applying Styles.

5. Creating Outlines.
1. Open an existing document that contains several paragraphs of text. Select the text
and convert it into two columns. Make first column wider than the second and add a line
between the columns.

2. Open a new document and change the Page Orientation to Landscape. Using Draw
Table feature, insert a 7-column, 6-row table to create a calendar for the current month. Enter
the names of the days of the week I the first row of the table. Centre the day names
horizontally and vertically. Change the font and font size as desired. Insert a row at the top of
the table. Merge the cells in the row and enter the current month and year using a large font
size. Centre this text horizontally and vertically. Shade the row. Enter and right-align the dates
for the month in the appropriate cells of the table. Change the outside border to a thicker and
more decorative border. Identify two important dates in the calendar and shade them. Insert a
paragraph o text above the table.

3. Open an existing document that contains a title and several subheadings. Apply
different heading styles (heading 1, heading 2 etc.) to various headings. Apply a new style to
the body text paragraphs.

4. Create an outline on any topic with several heading levels. Collapse the outline to
show only Heading 1. Demote any two headings. Promote them back again. Switch to Normal

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View and enter body text under al least two headings. Turn to the Document Map and
navigate through your document.

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Assignment No. 3
Working with Complex Documents in Word

Expected Outcome

1. Understanding Mail Merge.

2. Publishing Online Forms.

3. Adding Footnotes, Endnotes.

4. Using Bookmarks.

1. Create a form letter with fields to represent data in an existing data source file. Preview
the merge to see that everything is correct. Merge to a new document. Save the data source
file and your main document but discard the merge document.

2. Create mailing labels to a select group of people from an existing data source file.

3. Design a form of your choice and create a blank template to hold this form. Create a
table to hold the body of your form. Use each type of field control and set options for each.
Protect, save and use the form. Note if there are any problems.

4. Open an existing document. Switch to Normal view and add at least two footnotes and
two endnotes. Delete the first footnote and first endnote.

5. Using the same document as in Question. No. 4 above, create a bookmark to the first
paragraph.

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