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Mahomet-Seymour Schools

 Curriculum

Business Education - Word Processing

 

Microsoft Word

 

The learner will be able to use three ways of saving a document.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to distinguish between "save" and "save as'' commands.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to open and close a document using three different techniques.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to print a document and be able to print different pages of a document.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to use keystrokes to move the insertion point to the beginning of a line, end of a line, beginning of a document, and end of a document.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to use left, right, center, full, and all justification.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to insert documents into other documents.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to demonstrate file management by deleting, copying, and moving files.

 

  

 

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Text Entry

 

The learner will be able to insert and distinguish between indent, double indent, and hanging indent.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to create lists, bullets, and numbers.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to insert the "date text" and "date code".

 

  

 

The learner will be able to center a document on the page.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to insert hyphen, hyphen characters, and dashes and know the different uses of each.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to use three different techniques to cut, copy, and paste.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to use "drag and drop" as an alternative method to cut and paste.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to use quick menus to access often used commands.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to use spell check, thesaurus, and grammar check to edit documents.

 

  

 

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Formatting

 

The learner will be able to discuss the MS Word formatting defaults.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to adjust line spacing in documents.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to adjust the margins of Microsoft Word documents.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to change tab settings in Microsoft Word documents.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to use the ruler bar for indents, margins, and tabs.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to format documents with headers, footers, and watermarks.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to use widow/orphan protection.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to add footnotes and endnotes to documents.

 

  

 

 

  

 

The learner will be able to create a table and use basic formatting commands to improve the appearance of tables.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to arrange documents in text columns.

 

The learner will be able to use the show/hide command to show formatting characters.

 

  

 

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Keyboarding Review

 

The learner will be able to operate letter keys and punctuation keys with correct technique.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to increase gross words per minute in a three minute timed writing.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to key words, sentences, and paragraphs with proper technique and without time-wasting pauses between letters and words.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to use the number keypad with adequate skill, without looking at the keypad.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to know the difference between block style and modified block style personal business letters.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to format a personal business letter with correct spacing.

 

  

 

The learner will be able to format an envelope in WordPerfect, using a manually fed paper tray to create the envelope.

 

  

 

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