Word Processing Prep

Word Processing Prep

Text Wrapping

​You have many options - but what does it do?

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​Text wrap is an option supported by many word processors that allows you to surround a picture with text. The text wraps around the image.

Multiple Choice

You have inserted an image into a document. When you select the Wrap Text option, where does the text flow?

• Below the image

• Over the image

• Through the image

• Around the image

Multiple Choice

Celia inserted an image into her document. She specified the "inline" option for the image. Where does the document text appear relative to the image?

• The text surrounds the image.

• The text appears to the left of the image.

• The text appears to the right of the image.

• The text appears on the same line as the image.

​Styles

From the HOME menu bar, choose the Styles option from the toolbar.

​Applying styles to your text aides in consistency and allows for you to insert table of contents and to search using the document map option.

Multiple Choice

Naomi is writing a report. She wants to generate a table of contents for her report when she is finished. What is the best way to accomplish this task?

• Enter the words "Table of Contents" and press ENTER.

• Copy all the document headings and paste them into the table of contents.

• Move all the document headings to the table of contents.

• Apply heading styles to the text that you want to be included in the table of contents.

Multiple Choice

Chad and his other team members have created a single document. It is made from combining several documents that the team worked on individually. They would like the paragraphs to look consistent throughout the document. What feature could they use to unify the formatting of the paragraphs in the entire document?

• Styles

• Characters

• Line Spacing

• Tables

​Ruler

From the VIEW menu bar - turn on the ruler.​

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​Use the Ruler to change the tabs and indent spacing.

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Multiple Choice

Collette created a document that contains four columns. What is the best method for adjusting the spacing and alignment of the columns to closely fit the text contained within them?

• increase or decrease the page margin width.

• Add a blank column before or after the four columns.

• Add blank columns of various sizes among the four columns.

• Drag the indent markers for each column that appear on the ruler.

Multiple Choice

Juliet is creating a newsletter for her computer science club. She wants to have three columns, but wants to adjust the column spacing and alignment of the columns to have an asymmetrical balance. What should she do?

• Drag the indent markers for each column that appear on the ruler.

• Modify the page margin width

• Adjust the line spacing.

• Add additional columns between the three used columns.

​Drawing Tools/Smart Art

​Smart Art and Drawing Tools are available on the INSERT menu bar.

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​Smart Art allows you to select process or flow diagrams

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​Drawing Tools allow you to create your own using shapes and text boxes

Multiple Choice

Darrel is writing a report about how a bill becomes a law in the United States Congress. One of the requirements of the assignment is that he create a visual representation of the process, such as a diagram or a flow chart. Which word-processing tools would Darrel use to best create this visual representation?

• Drawing tools/Smart Art

• Formatting tools

• Editing tools

• Table tools

Multiple Choice

Johann wants to create a flow chart that represents the scientific process. Which tools would help him accomplish this task in a word-processing document?

• Editing tools

• Texting Tools

• Formatting Tools

• Drawing tools/Smart Art

Multiple Choice

Melissa is writing a report about her father's business. She wants to include a hierarchical representation of the people and jobs at his company that shows who reports to whom. What kind of image should Melissa include?

• A project timeline

• A pyramid

• A flowchart

• An organization chart

​Adding Images

​Why do you add images to your documents?

​​Multimedia features, such as graphics and images, increase your users' understanding, illustrate your message, and enable you to engage your audience.

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​When you select an image in a document, you will see a line with square boxes appear around it. These boxes are called handles. You can drag handles inward to shrink the image or outward to increase its size. When you drag a corner handle, the image will maintain its original proportions.

Multiple Choice

Multimedia features, such as graphics and images, increase your users' understanding, illustrate your message, and enable you to engage your audience.

• An image is "worth a thousand words," so using images means you need less text in your document.

• Using images and graphics makes your document smaller, so it takes up less disk space.

• You must cite references for quotes that you find on the Internet, but you do not have to cite images or graphics.

• Images and graphics can often help convey your message better than text alone.

Multiple Choice

Rob inserted an image of a dinosaur into his report. Because the image is very small, he wants to increase the size of the image while keeping its proportions. How can Rob accomplish this task?

• rag a side handle to make the image bigger.

• Drag the handle at the top of the image to make it bigger.

• Drag the handle at the bottom of the image to make it bigger.

• Drag a corner handle to make the image bigger.

​Bibliography

​Any manuscripts, photographs, online journals, etc., that are used as a source within a research document should be listed with a citation for each source in the bibliography section.

Multiple Choice

Samantha is writing a report about the different holidays that are celebrated throughout her state. She has obtained manuscripts, photographs and online journals to assist in her research. She has created citations with the information about each of these sources. Which term describes the part of her document where she will list these citations?

• Remember, they are wordy questions

• What are they asking?

• Usually at the End of a book

• Bibliography

​Columns

​A column is a vertical division of text on a page, separated by a rule or blank space. The column structure is commonly used in newspapers, flyers and newsletters. In a document, a page can have two or more columns of text.

Multiple Choice

Jeanette is creating a newsletter for a project. She is going to structure her articles using a vertical division of text, separated by a blank space. What is the term for this type of layout?

• Style

• Space

• Text

• Column

​Orientation

​Document orientation is the direction a page is displayed for normal viewing. "Portrait" is the vertical display, usually used for printed pages in books and magazines. "Landscape" is the horizontal display that provides a wider view instead of taller.

Keyboard Shortcuts

​Ctrl+C: copy text

​Ctrl+V: paste

​Can be used to copy text from one document into another

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​Ctrl+Z: undo

​Ctrl+S: save

​Ctrl+O: open

​Ctrl+P: print

Multiple Choice

Donna wants to duplicate a paragraph from one document into a new document. What would be the easiest way to accomplish this?

• Type the information again.

• Scan the paragraph into the new document.

• Print two copies of the document.

• Copy and paste text using keyboard shortcuts.

​When you insert a table the top or first row is usually for headings as well as the first column.

Multiple Choice

Victoria wants to create a simple word-processing table that lists the countries of Europe and data about them, such as their population, area, capital city, form of government, and so forth. Where should she place the headers that describe the data in the table?

• In the bottom row and right column of the table

• Above and to the left of the table

• Below and to the right of the table

• In the top row and left column of the table

Multiple Choice

What is the first thing you need to specify when you create a table in a word-processing document?

• pick a border

• choose a color

• how wide are the columns

• The number of columns and rows

Multiple Choice

When you change a table's shading, you are changing its:

• dimensions.

• border style.

• text font.

• color scheme or styles.

Multiple Choice

lana wants to keep track of what she is eating on a daily basis. She would like to enter this data into a word-processing document. Which option would best help Alana organize this data?

• Word Art

• Shapes

• Outline

• Table

Multiple Choice

What is the first step when converting existing text to a table?

• we haven't talked about this yet

• what is the first thing you do

• whenever you are formatting something

• SELECT the TEXT

​Tables

​The Table Properties option allows you to change the color of table rows, columns or cells.

Multiple Choice

Anna wants to modify the table her partner created in their shared word-processing document. She wants the whole table to have a light blue background. Which option would allow Anna to make the modification?

• Table Properties/Table Tools Format

• Table Highlight

• Insert Background

• Draw a Table

​Numbered lists are called "ordered lists" (because they specify the order or sequence of list items), and bulleted lists are called "unordered lists" (because they do not specify a specific order).

Multiple Choice

What is the difference between a numbered list and a bulleted list?

• Bulleted lists should contain complete sentences

• Numbered lists can only be used for giving instruction

• Bulleted lists specify the order that the list items must follow

• Numbered lists specify the order that the list items must follow, and bulleted lists do not have to follow a specific order.

Multiple Choice

Ariel's computer teacher calls on her during class. He asks her for an example where a bulleted list would be a better choice than an ordered list. Which is Ariel's best response?

• A list of the items you need to purchase at the grocery store

• A list of the top ranked web sites based on daily visitors

• A list of the fastest mile running times and athletes who ran them

• A list of the steps you need to perform to knit a scarf

​formatting features change the arrangement, or layout, of pages. These features include aligning text vertically and horizontally, indenting and hyphenating text, and changing margins and line spacing.

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​Formatting changes the way things look

​Formatting

Multiple Choice

What type of feature would you use to adjust the line spacing?

• Formatting

• Shading

• Editing

• Inserting

​Templates

​A template is a pre-formatted page layout that enables users to create a document that follows a consistent style.

Multiple Choice

Mr. Silverman requested that each student include a "formatted" table of contents in each of their group project documents. Why would he ask the students to do this?

• To make it easy to locate individual sections of the document

• To test their knowledge of tables

• To allow the document to be quickly saved

• To align the document paragraphs

Multiple Choice

Mr. Simmons has assigned a research project. Every student in the class will create a single page report about the recycling habits of an assigned state. The individual reports will then be combined to form a single 50 page reference manual. What can Mr. Simmons require each student use so that all page layouts follows a consistent style?

• A template

• A laptop provided by the school

• A keyboard shortcut

• A toolbar

​After inserting a picture. Select it by clicking the image. Then on the picture menu bar you can give an item a 3D effect by choosing a picture style.

Multiple Choice

Larry inserted a two-dimensional image into his document, but he wants to give the image some depth to make it stand out from the page. How can he accomplish this?

• add a shadow

• add a border

• change the color contrast

• Give item a 3D effect

​Font

​You can change the font in many ways:

​style

​size

​color

​typeface

Multiple Choice

What should you change if you want to increase the text in your document from 9-point font to 11-point font while keeping all other font attributes the same?

• style

• color

• size

• typeface

Multiple Choice

Mario's teacher has shared a word processing document with the class. All of the items in the document are in one giant bulleted list. The assignment is to modify the list to become an appropriate multi-level outline based on their previous lesson. Which key can Mario use to increase the levels (indentation) of the items in the list to create an appropriate outline?

• Some of the questions are really wordy

• they try to distract you

• with lots of information

• THE TAB key indents

Multiple Choice

Which keyboard shortcut can increase or decrease the levels of the text in a numbered or bulleted list to produce a multi-level outline in a document?

• CTRL

• Shift

• Enter

• Tab

Multiple Choice

When inserting an image into a document, how do you access the controls that let you scale the image's size in any direction?

• Save the image.

• Crop the image.

• Select the text around the image.

• Click on the image.

Multiple Choice

Which option can be changed to prevent text from being hidden by the margin?

• Gutter

• Orientation

• Footer

• Header

​Menu Bar

​The View drop-down menu allows you to choose the page display: close-up, single, or multiple pages.

Multiple Choice

In a word processing program, where can you find drop-down menus that contain sets of options?

• Option Bar

• Tool Bar

• Scroll Bar

• Menu Bar

Multiple Choice

Zoe is reviewing a document written by another person who used a very small font. Zoe wants to increase the size of the text so she can more easily read it, without making any changes to the document. How can Zoe accomplish this task?

• Change the document to Portrait orientation.

• Change the document to Landscape orientation.

• Zoom OUT

• Zoom IN

​Revision/Version History

​Word-processing applications that allow collaboration offer a way for you to see the changes that have been made in a document from the time it was created until the most recent save. By viewing the document's revision history, you can see how the document looked at any point in time during its development.

Multiple Choice

Phineas and Isabella are working together on a report using a word processing document. For what appropriate purpose would they use the revision history?

• They want to review the document as it looked at a certain point during its development to see how it has improved.

• They want to chat with each other.

• They want to insert inline comments at various points during the development process of their report.

• They want to autosave their document as they go.

Multiple Choice

When creating a report using a word processor, where should you place the title page?

• In the Header

• In the Footer

• Where do you usually put a title?

• At the beginning of the report

Multiple Choice

For which task would you most likely use word-processing software?

• Creating slides and displaying them in a continuous loop

• lacing numeric data in rows and columns for statistical analysis

• Placing text in rows and columns for sorting and filtering

• Formatting text with various fonts, sizes and styles

Multiple Choice

Which feature allows for you to produce copies of your word-processing document on paper, and includes options such as multiple copies, grayscale and color?

• Properties

• Table of Contents

• Page Setup

• Print options/settings