EXPLORING THE COMPUTING LANDSCAPE

10. INSERTING FEATURES TO A DOCUMENT

These include MS word embedded features and external features that can be extracted into a document. They include:

I.                           Tables

II.                         Pictures or Clip Art

III.                       Shapes

IV.                      Header & Footer

V.                        Page Number

VI.                      Text Box

VII.                    Word Art

VIII.                  Drop Cap

IX.                      Symbols

 SAVING A DOCUMENT 

Best practice demands that we save our document before we begin creating texts; this is because of power failure or unforeseen circumstances. 

You can save your documents in two different ways, which includes

●               SAVE (Require no password)

●               SAVE AS ( This type of saving require you to save your documents using passwords in some windows like Windows XP)

PRINT PREVIEW

It is ideal to preview all documents before any print operations this will determines if the document is intact as it should be. 

SHORT CUT KEYS

	Keys	Meaning
Ctrl +A		To Highlight all
Ctrl + B		To Bold
Ctrl + C		To Copy
Ctrl + D		For Font
Ctrl + E		To align to the centre
Ctrl + F		To Find
Ctrl + G		GOTO
Ctrl + H		To replace
Ctrl + I		Italic
Ctrl + J		Justify
Ctrl + k		To insert hyperlink
Ctrl + L		Alignment to the left
Ctrl +M		Indent
Ctrl + N		Open a New Document
Ctrl + O		Brings up a browse dialog and allows you to select a file to open
Ctrl + P		Prints a document
Ctrl + Q		To change line spacing
Ctrl + R		Align text Right
Ctrl + S		To Save
Ctrl + U		To Underline
Ctrl + V		To paste copied document
Ctrl + W		To close currently open document
Ctrl + X		To  cuts (removes) a selected documents
Ctrl + Y		To redo
Ctrl + Z		To Undo last command