Log on to the Internet and locate a Web page on any topic
that relates to your academic area of interest. The web page must have at
least one full page of text. Copy the text into Microsoft Word using the
copy and paste feature. You may need to turn on nonprinting characters located
on the Standard toolbar or press Shift + Ctrl + *, and delete any unnecessary
hard returns or spaces at the end of paragraphs.
In Word, create a two-column newsletter from the copied text. Be sure your
title is not included within the columns. If the web page does not include
a title, make one up. The title should appear centered across both columns
in your newsletter. Also include side headings to the newsletter. To create
a two column newsletter, complete the following steps:
Change to Print Layout View:
Click View on the Menu Toolbar.
Select Print Layout. (FYI: To change back to Normal View, click View
and then Normal. You will stay in Print Layout for this activity).
Select the Title and change the font to 14-point Times New Roman bold.
Select each of your side heading individually and then turn on bold.
Select the text in the document, all but the title and the blank line below
the title. With the text selected, make the following changes:
Change the font to 11-point Times New Roman.
Select the entire (select all command) document by holding down
the Ctrl key and pressing the key A.
Open the Font dialog box by clicking on Format on the Menu toolbar,
and select Font from the drop-down list.
At the Font dialog box, click the up-pointing triangle at the right
side of the Font list box until Times New Roman Style displays. This
is the default font, so this font should already be selected. If so,
continue to the next step.
Change the size option to 11 by selecting the 12 displayed in the
Size list box and they keying in 11.
Click OK or press Enter.
Change the line spacing to single.
Select the entire document (select all command) by holding down
the Ctrl key and pressing the keyboard kdy "A."
Open the Paragraph dialog box by clicking on Format on the Menu
toolbar, and select Paragraph from the drop-down list.
At the Paragraph dialog box, click the down-point triangle at the
Line spacing drop-down list, and select single-spacing.
Click OK or press Enter.
Display the Tabs dialog box (Format-Tabs) and set the left tab to 0.2
(the default left tab is .5).
Deselect the text.
Move the insertion point to the end of your title and then press the
Enter key.
Format the text into two newspaper columns by completing the following
steps:
Position the insertion point at the left margin of the first heading
(the beginning of the body of the document-below the title).
Click Format and then Columns At the Columns dialog box, click
the Two option in the Presets section.
Click the down-pointing triangle at the right side of the Apply
to text box and click This Point Forward at the drop-down list.
Click OK or press Enter.
Insert a vertical line between the columns by completing the following
steps:
With your insertion point still at the left margin at the beginning
of the document, click Format the then Columns.
At the Columns dialog box, click the Line Between option.
Click OK or press Enter.
Use full justification. To full justify, complete the following steps:
Select all the text in the body of the document, excluding the title.
Click Format and then Paragraph.
At the Paragraph dialog box with the Indent and Spacing tab selected,
click the down-pointing triangle at the right of the Alignment text
box, and then click Justified.
Click OK or press Enter.
Deselect the text.
Automatically hyphenate the document by following the steps below:
Click Tools, point to Language, and then click Hyphenation.
At the Hyphenation dialog box, click the up-pointing triangle at
the right of the Limit consecutive hyphens to text box until 2 displays
in the text box.
Click Automatically hyphenate document.
Click OK.
Use a Drop Cap for the first letter of the first paragraph only by completing
the following steps:
Position the insertion point anywhere in the first paragraph.
Click Format and then Drop Cap.
At the Drop Cap dialog box, click Dropped in the Position section.
Click OK.
Deselect the drop. (To do this with the mouse, click anywhere in
the document screen outside the drop cap).
Insert a clip art image in an appropriate location and adjust the wrapping
style to Square.
Proofread and spell check.
Save document if you wish, or close the document without making any
changes.
