Microsoft Word 2010

1. Microsoft Word 2010 Lesson 8 Part 1 Word Lesson 8 presentation prepared by Michele Smith – North Buncombe High School, Weaverville, NC. Content from Microsoft Office Word 2010 Lesson Plans provided by Microsoft.

2. Students will be able to do the following on completion of this lesson. Learning Objectives Word Lesson 8 presentation prepared by Michele Smith – North Buncombe High School, Weaverville, NC. Content from Microsoft Office Word 2010 Lesson Plans provided by Microsoft.

3. The use of columns is just one of the many desktop publishing features that is included in Word 2010. Columns are commonly used in newsletters as well as newspaper articles. Columns can help to create text that is easy to read. Discussion Word Lesson 8 presentation prepared by Michele Smith – North Buncombe High School, Weaverville, NC. Content from Microsoft Office Word 2010 Lesson Plans provided by Microsoft.

4. S: (n) column (a page or text that is vertically divided) "the newspaper devoted several columns to the subject"; "the bookkeeper used pages that were divided into columns" Define columns? http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=column

5. Columns can contain pictures or objects Columns are everywhere!

6. By default when you open a new document in Word…you have “1” column Word Lesson 6 presentation prepared by Michele Smith – North Buncombe High School, Weaverville, NC. Content from Microsoft Office Word 2010 Lesson Plans provided by Microsoft.

7. 3 6 When using the Columns button on the Page Layout Ribbon, only 3 columns will appear in the drop-down menu, but up to 12 columns can be selected by using the “more” columns option. You can create up to 12 columns in a document 12 Word Lesson 6 presentation prepared by Michele Smith – North Buncombe High School, Weaverville, NC. Content from Microsoft Office Word 2010 Lesson Plans provided by Microsoft.

8. 3 12 The size of the column(s) is based on the margins and page width 6 Word Lesson 6 presentation prepared by Michele Smith – North Buncombe High School, Weaverville, NC. Content from Microsoft Office Word 2010 Lesson Plans provided by Microsoft.

9. Gutter The amount of space allowed between columns is an option that can be modified Word Lesson 6 presentation prepared by Michele Smith – North Buncombe High School, Weaverville, NC. Content from Microsoft Office Word 2010 Lesson Plans provided by Microsoft.

10. Makes change to column width Change width Columns can be created with equal width, unequal width and customized columns. Column breaks are inserted to cause the text following the break to begin in the next column. Word Lesson 6 presentation prepared by Michele Smith – North Buncombe High School, Weaverville, NC. Content from Microsoft Office Word 2010 Lesson Plans provided by Microsoft.