Word Processing

Unit 4: Integration With Word

Objective

At the end of this unit you should be able to:

• Insert and create your own images into a document.
• Create a simple web page.

Skills

In this unit you will learn to integrate graphics into Word and web publishing skills. They will be covered in a series of lessons, listed below.

• Lesson 10: Adding and Manipulating a Graphic
• How do you add clip art to your document?
• How do you crop a graphic and put a border around it?
• How do you move a graphic and align it relative to other graphics or text?
• How do you add pictures from other files?
• How do you change the colors and brightness of an image?
• Lesson 11: Drawing in Word: AutoShapes and WordArt
• How do you draw something in Word?
• How do you add AutoShapes to your document?
• How do you insert text inside an AutoShape?
• How do you add WordArt?
• How do you rotate a Drawing object?
• How do you group different Drawing objects together?
• How do you adjust, or "skew" AutoShapes?
• Lesson 12: Creating a Web Page
• How do you create a web page?
• How do you convert an existing document into a web page?

You can, of course, complete the lessons in any order.

Concepts

An understanding of certain concepts is necessary to succeed in the lessons. The following concepts are defined where applicable in the lesson text. You may also click on any concept listed here to see it defined.

1. What is a graphic?
2. What are AutoShapes?
3. What is WordArt?
4. What is the difference between a ClipArt/Picture and a Drawing object?
5. What is a tool palette?
6. What do each of the draw tools do?
7. What is a text box?
8. How are the fill color and pattern different from the line color and pattern?
9. How is a pattern different from a color?
10. What are the "squares" (handles) that appear around the thing I draw?
11. Which handles do what kind of reshaping/resizing?
12. How do you move a drawing in front of or behind another one?
13. Why do some of my little objects disappear when I am "bringing to front" and "sending to back"?
14. What is the Grid?
15. What is a watermark?
16. What does "snapping to the Grid" mean?
17. How do you turn the "snap" on and off?
18. How is constraining the drawing with the Shift key different from drawing with the Grid snap on?
19. Where is the clipboard?
20. How is Copy different from Cut?
21. How many times can you Paste something from the clipboard?
22. How do you know what is on the clipboard?
23. What is HTML?

Self-Check

• WP Self-Check #4

Assignments

You must complete the following assignment associated with the lessons above to receive credit for this unit.

• Word Processing Assignment 4

Copyright 1996 by the Curators of the University of Missouri