Transcript Spotlight on Word Processing

Chapter 2:
Editing
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Align text at the left, right, and center
Justify text
Check the spelling and grammar of a document
Double-space the text
Use the thesaurus
Find and replace text
Differentiate between cut and copy
Cut, copy, and paste text
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alignment
antonym
clipboard
copy
cut
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default setting
justified
paste
synonym
thesaurus
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Default alignment is at the left.
Left aligned text is smooth on the left and jagged
at the right.
Hold Ctrl and press the letter L to left align the line
or paragraph.
Click Align Text Left button on the Home Ribbon.
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Centered text is jagged on both sides, centered on
the line.
Click the Center button on the Home Ribbon.
Hold Ctrl and press the letter E to center a line or
paragraph.
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Right aligned text is smooth on the right and
jagged on the left.
Click the Align Text Right button on the Home
Ribbon.
Hold Ctrl and press the letter R to right align a line
or paragraph.
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Justified text is smooth on both sides.
Click the Justify button on the Home Ribbon.
Hold Ctrl and press the letter J to justify a line or
paragraph.
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Red squiggly lines mean a misspelled word.
Green squiggly lines mean a grammatical error.
Click the Spelling & Grammar button on the
Review Ribbon.
Press F7 to start the spelling and grammar
checker.
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Click Insert from the Home Ribbon.
Type name at the left.
Hour/day in the center.
Assignment name at the right.
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Select text first if more than one paragraph.
Click the Line Spacing button on the Home
Ribbon.
Hold Ctrl and press the number 2 to doublespace.
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Tool that lists synonyms and antonyms for
words.
Click the Thesaurus button on the Review
Ribbon.
Right-click and choose synonyms.
Hold Shift and press F7.
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Click Find from the Home Ribbon.
Find will place your cursor at the beginning of
each occurrence of the word.
Click Replace from the Home Ribbon.
Replace will actually replace a word or
formatting with something else.
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Original text or object stays in the document
when copying.
“Copy” of item is stored to the clipboard in
computer’s memory.
Click the Copy button on the Home Ribbon.
Can paste an unlimited number of times.
Click the Paste button on the Home Ribbon.
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Original text or object is removed from
document when cutting.
Item is saved to clipboard.
Click the Cut button on the Home Ribbon.
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Hold Ctrl and press the letter C to copy.
Hold Ctrl and press the letter V to paste.
Hold Ctrl and press the letter X to cut.
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The default setting is left-aligned text.
Text can be changed to left-, center-, right-aligned,
or justified.
Red squiggly lines in the text indicate a misspelled
word.
Green squiggly lines in the text indicate a mistake in
grammar.
If you want to change the alignment of more than
one paragraph, select the text first.
There are also keyboard shortcuts to align the text.
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A header is text that can be inserted at the top of every page
of a document.
The thesaurus shows both synonyms and antonyms for
words.
The Replace tool is a quick way to replace several
occurrences of text.
Cutting removes the selected text and places it on the
clipboard.
Copying makes a copy of the selected text and places it on
the clipboard.
Pasting takes whatever is on the clipboard and places it in the
document.
You can paste an unlimited number of times.
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