Project 15 - Newsletter
Log on to the Internet and locate a Web page on any topic that relates to your company's products and services. 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.
Use single spacing and 12-point font.
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.
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 below the title. With the text selected, make the following changes:
Change the font to 11-point Times New Roman.
Change the line spacing to single.
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.
Name the document with the name Proj15.