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There are many versions of Wordperfect. The version you are using may be slitely different from the one used here. If there are differences, a little exploring may be required. |
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There are many versions of Wordperfect. The version you are using may be slitely different from the one used here. If there are differences, a little exploring may be required. |
A licensed copy of Corel Wordperfect
A pen and some paper (for taking notes)
About thirty to forty minutes
Below is a picture of a typical Wordperfect display (yours may be slightly different)
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There are many possible toolbars, only a small portion of them are normally visible. |
If you select the menu you will see some very basic operations that we must discuss before anything else.
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There are two ways of selecting items from the menu bar. You can simply click them with the mouse or hold the alt key and press the letter that corresponds to that menu (the letter is underlined in each of the menu names). |
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A keyboard shortcut is a combination of keys that can be used to quickly access a specific function. Whenever a new function is introduced its keyboard shortcut will also be given, whenever one exists. |
Also, under the menu you will find the following:
The first thing we want to do is landscape our page. This means to rotate the page ninety degrees. Do the following.
The next thing we want to do is set our page margins. The page margins are the blank areas around the page. Try the following.
Before we can change our content, we must type some. Type the following text in your document(exactly as seen below), be sure to click in the document window first.
The first thing we will want to do is change the case of the first line, that is we will change it from lower case to uppercase. Try the following:
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To modify text you will need to select text. To do this place the cursor in front of the first letter of the text you want to select then hold down the left mouse button while you move the mouse over the entire selection. |
The other aspect of changing content that we will look at is the act of moving or copying text from one part of the document to another. Copying text is essentially the same as when we copied files in DOS or UNIX. Moving is also the same concept, except now we call it cutting. Try the following:
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The copy operation can also be used by simply using ctrl + c. The cut operation can be used with ctrl + x and paste can be used with ctrl + v. |
Before we move any further lets run a spell check on our document. This will instruct the program to look for any words that do not appear to be spelled correctly. Try the following:
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A spell check can also be run by simply pressing ctrl + f1 |
Everyone has a slightly different writing style, word processors can also display text in different forms, these different forms are called the font types. We can also change the size of the characters, these sizes are called the font sizes. We could also format our text using one or a combination of the following modes: bold, italic, underline. Bold mode will display the letters and numbers with thicker lines. Italic mod will slant the letters and numbers to the right. Underline mode will place a horizontal line under the text. Try the following:
Repeat this process to complete the following tasks. Make the second and fourth lines 14pt size with the same font type as the first line. Make the third line size 20pt with a different font size and put it in the italic and underline mode. Finally, place the last two lines in italic mode.
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When we select a group of text and perform an operation on it, like changing to italic mode, we are performing a block operation. |
One final form of alignment is justified, we often see this form in newspapers. Justified text has extra spaces added between words to completely fill a line of text.
When used properly, graphics can vastly improve the visual appeal of a document. Try the following:
Once we have our image it is important to know how to edit that picture. Try the following:
Before we continue lets work on a new page. Use the basic skills from above to save your current document and start a new one.
Setting indents help us to govern how groups of text will be displayed. Often when we start a new paragraph we will indent the first line to establish this new paragraph; this is called a first-line indent. To create a first-line indent complete the following:
Type in a few paragraphs so that you can properly understand what the indents are doing.
Indents are primatily used to denote a new paragraph. Tabs, on the other hand, are used to indent all or some of the lines of a paragraph for better readabiliy. Tabs can also be used to align a list of items. To set the tabs, do the following:
Now every time you press the tab key the current line will be indented by 3cm. Try adding a new paragraph, but this time press tab at the beginning of every new line, you will notice that this new paragraph stands out from the others.
Bullets are a way of denoting a new list item. Bullets are symbols that are inserted before each list item. You can start a bulleted list by doing the following:
Make a list of the four ways of aligning text, press enter after each alignment type. Once you have pressed enter after the last item, simply press backspace to stop the bullets from appearing.
Tables can add much needed organization to your document. Create a table by completing the following.
We will now learn how to manipulate tables to achevied a desired look. The first aspect of this is the operation of splitting or joining table cells. Try the following:
In this new larger cell enter the title 'Things I can do with Wordperfect'. Lets look at splitting cells now:
Continue using this operation to transform your table to look like the one below:
| Things I can do with Word | |
| Page settings | layout |
| margins | |
| Font settings | type |
| size | |
| format | |
| Alignment | right |
| centered | |
| left | |
| justified | |
| Graphics | inserting |
| resizing | |
| Indents | setting |
| Tabs | setting |
| Bullets | setting |
| Tables | inserting |
| merging cells | |
| splitting cells | |
The last thing we will look at is the width of the lines that make up the table. Try the following:
Continue doing this for all the rows
We can instruct wordperfect to automatically insert page numbers by doing the following:
