MS Word/ Typing Skills

MS Word/ Typing Skills

Grade 3

Word Processing Software

• Word Processing software allows you to create documents that consist primarily of text.

• Words in a document are called text

• Everything you type is called a document

Formatting a document

To format text means to change three things:

1. the font style

2. the font color

3. the font size

Multiple Choice

Before you make changes or format your text you must ______ first.

• Highlight the text

• Underline the text

• Change the font

Multiple Choice

What format was made to this word:

Sunshine

• bold

• underline

• font color

• font size

Headers

A header is text or an image that is printed on every page within a document.

The header is printed at the top section of the page.

Multiple Select

Select what is inserted on a header...

• Your Name

• Your Birthday

• Today's Date

• Your Grade

Open Ended

Type to show how your header would look on a document.

Typing Skills

Follow instructions on the following slides.

Open Ended

Type the following Paragraph:

Lucayans lived in a small settlement near the sea. They built their houses from tree branches and used dried grass and leaves to make the roof. Everyday they had to go and search for food. Lucayans hunted fish and collected fruits from trees.

Multiple Choice

The Lucayans used ____ and ____ to make their roof.

• mud and stone

• leaves and twigs

• dried grass and leaves

Open Ended

Type the following sentences:

Their crops were yam, cassava, sweet potato and corn. Lucayans loved to eat iguanas, hutia and turtles. Pepperpot soup was one of their favorite meals.

Multiple Select

Select the crops that the Lucayans grew

• yam

• cassava

• sweet potato

• corn

Open Ended

Type the sentences:

Lucayans were peaceful people. They were not fierce like the Caribs who lived in the South Caribbean Islands.

Multiple Choice

Which tab is the shapes tool found on?

• Page Layout

• Home

• Insert

• Format

Multiple Choice

Which section would you find the star shape?

• Basic Shapes

• Flow Charts

• Callouts

• Stars and Banners

Open Ended

The weight of an outline refers to the ______.

Multiple Choice

What happens when we CUT text?

• Text is copied

• Text is deleted from the page

• Text is removed and places on the clipboard

• Text Color is changed

Multiple Choice

You use the copy and paste feature when you want to _____.

• create an identical copy

• remove the text from the document

• insert a picture to the document

• delete your entire document