Introduction to Word 2007

Module 8

There are two basic types of graphics that you can use to enhance your Microsoft Word documents: drawing objects and pictures. Drawing objects include AutoShapes, curves, lines, and WordArt drawing objects. These objects are part of your Word document. Use the Drawing toolbar to change and enhance these objects with colors, patterns, borders, and other effects. Pictures are graphics that were created from another file. They include bitmaps, scanned pictures and photographs, and clip art.

*      Inserting clip art 

*      Inserting a picture or clip art from a folder

*      Wrapping Text  

*      Using the picture tools to modify clip art and pictures

*      Using the Illustration tools: creating lines and arrows

*      Using the Illustration tools: creating shapes 

*      Using the Illustration tools: creating a text box 

*      Using the Illustration tools: creating WordArt

 

 Inserting clip art 

Activity 1:  Inserting clip art

1. Open Word to a new blank document. Save this document as "Assignment One". You will have to submit this document by email at the end of this module.

2. Insert a picture from clipart. From the Insert tab, and the Illustrations group, click ClipArt. Then click on Clip Art. The ClipArt Task Pane appears.

3. Search through the available clipart by typing Halloween in the Search text window and then clicking the Search button. Results are displayed. To insert ClipArt click on your selection, point to the clip you want and click on the down arrow. In the pop-up menu, choose Insert.

4. Close the Task Pane. The clip is inserted on your page and a new Format Tab appears on the Ribbon.

Group 1:  Adjust

Brightness, Contrast, Recolor, Compress Picture, Change Picture, Reset Picture

 

Group 2: Picture Styles

Simple frame-white, Beveled mat-white, etc

Picture shape, Picture border, Picture effects

Group 3: Arrange

Position, Text Wrapping, Bring to front, Send to back, Align, Group, Rotate

Group 4: Size

Crop, Height, Width

 

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Inserting a picture or clip art from a folder 

Activity 2: Inserting a picture or clip art from a folder 

1. Download the following picture: " pumpkins.jpg ". (Right click and choose Save Target As...) Save this picture into your Documents folder.

2. Open Assignment One if necessary and place the cursor (Insertion Point) a couple of lines underneath the clipart you inserted earlier.

3. From the Insert tab, choose Picture, then From File.

4. Click the Down Arrow in the Look in... window and select the My Documents folder.

5. Double click on pumpkins.jpg. The picture is then inserted into your document.

6. Save your document.

By default, Word embeds pictures in a document (the  picture becomes a part of the document, thus increasing the file size of the document). You can reduce the size of your document by linking a picture. In the Insert Picture dialog box (Insert menu, From File submenu), click the picture, click the arrow to the right of the Insert button, and then click Link to File. While you can't edit the picture, you can see it in your document and print it when you print the document.

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Wrapping Text

Activity 3: Wrapping Text

1. For this activity, you need to type the following text into your document. (Place the cursor a couple of lines beneath the picture you just inserted and type):

An Irish legend tells of Jack, a lazy but shrewd farmer who uses a cross to trap the Devil, then refuses to free him unless the Devil agrees never to let Jack into Hell. The Devil agrees. When Jack dies, he fails to gain admission to heaven and is barred from entering hell. He is then left wandering the Earth. In need of light, Jack carves out one of his turnips, puts a candle inside it, and begins endlessly wandering the Earth for a resting place. He is known as "Jack of the Lantern," or Jack-o'-Lantern.

There are variations on the legend, some of which include:

  • The Devil mockingly tosses a coal from the fires of Hell at Jack, which Jack then places in the turnip.
  • Jack tricks/traps the Devil a variety of ways, including placing a key or other item in the Devil's pocket while the Devil is suspended in the air, plucking an apple from a tree, or carving a cross into the bark of a tree the Devil is in. Some versions include a "wise and good man" or even God helping Jack to prevail over the Devil.
  • Different versions of Jack's bargain with the Devil. In some variations, the deal is only a temporary bargain, but the Devil, embarrassed and vengeful, refuses Jack entry after Jack dies.
  • Jack is considered a greedy man and is not allowed into either Heaven or Hell, without any mention of the Devil.

Despite the colorful legends, the term jack-o'-lantern originally meant a night watchman, or man with a lantern, with the earliest known use in the mid-17th century; and later, meaning an ignis fatuus or will-o'-the-wisp. The names "Jacky Lantern" and "Jack the Lantern" persist in the oral tradition in Newfoundland, referring to the will-o'-the-wisp type phenomena, rather than the carved pumpkin jack-o'-lantern. 

-source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2. When you are through typing and formatting (Bookman Old Style, font size 12, font color orange)  the text, your document should spread over two pages (depending on the size of the clipart you inserted earlier). Save your work!

3. Double click the picture you just inserted. The Format Tab appears on the Ribbon.

4. From the Format tab, choose Text Wrapping from the Arrange Group. Select Square:

5. You now should be able to click and drag the images into the text that you typed. Your document should look something like the picture below: 

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Using the picture tools to modify clip art and pictures

Activity 4: Using the picture Format Tab toolbar to modify clip art and pictures

1. Double click on an image and the Format Tab appears. 

2. To re-size an image, 

  • Select the image you want to resize.
  • Drag a sizing handle until the object is the size you want

3. Re-size the pumpkin picture, then use the commands in the Adjust group to add more contrast and brightness.

 4. Make sure the pumpkin picture is still selected and click on the Wrapping button. Choose "Behind Text". Resize the picture to make it fill almost the entire page. Finally, under the Recolor button, choose "Washout".

5. Save your work. It should look similar to the example below.

 

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Using the Drawing tools: creating lines and arrows

Activity 5: Using the Shapes toolbar: creating lines and arrows

1. Use the Shapes toolbar to draw a line:

  • Click on the Line tool button (click and release) to pick up the Line tool.
  • Move the mouse pointer (it now looks like a + symbol) onto your document, click and drag to draw the object

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·         Notice the Sizing handles (white boxes) on either end. You may click and hold either one to rotate the line around the other, or click and drag to resize the line. By clicking between the sizing handles, you get the Move symbol (4-direction arrow). When you get this you may move the object by dragging.

·         Notice also that a new Format Shape tab appears which allow you to add styles, fill colors, line styles and colors, etc.

·         Re-position the line, click on Line Style (from the Drawing toolbar), choose a 6pt. line, then click on Line Color (from the Drawing toolbar) and choose an orange color. Copy and paste this line to create dividers between each paragraph in your document. Save your work!

 

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Using the Drawing toolbar: creating shapes 

Activity 6: Using the Drawing tools: creating shapes 

1. Use the Drawing tools to draw an AutoShape:

·         Click on the AutoShapes button (click and release) to open the menu, then choose Basic Shapes. Click on the Lightning bolt to pick up the drawing tool.

 

        ·         Draw a lightning bolt by clicking and dragging. Resize it and use the Shape Fill Color button (paint can) to choose a yellow color. Finally drag it on top of the clipart at the beginning of the document. Save your work!

To insert text in an AutoShape

  1. Select the AutoShape or text box.
  2. To add text for the first time, click any shape — except a line or freeform — click and then type the text.

To add text to existing text, right-click any shape — except a line or freeform — click Edit Text on the shortcut menu, and then type the text.

 

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Using the Drawing tools: creating a text box 

Activity 7: Using the Illustration tools: creating a text box

1. Use the Illustration tools to draw a Text Box:

  • Click on the Insert tab, go to the Text Group and click on the Textbox Command

·         Choose a Built-In textbox format or choose: 

      

·         Draw a text box by clicking and dragging

·         Type the following: "This is the story of how Jack-O-Lanterns first got their names!"

·         Select the text and format the font to size 20 and then resize the text box,

·         Finally, Double click on the text box and format to your liking. Click on the Layout tab and choose Square for text wrapping. You may also change the text box fill color and line color from the Colors and Lines tab. Click and drag the text box into the upper right hand corner of your document. Save your work!

 

 

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Using the Drawing toolbar: creating WordArt 

Activity 8: Using the Illustration tools: creating WordArt 

1. Use the Insert tab toolbar to create WordArt

  • Click on the WordArt button (click and release) to open the WordArt gallery

 

·         Choose the fourth from the left, bottom row style and click 

·         Type the following: "How the Jack-O-Lantern Got It's Name" and click OK. The following WordArt is inserted on your page

 

·         Resize, and drag to the top of your page. Your document should be similar to the picture below. Save your work!

To change the text in a WordArt drawing object

  1. Click the special text effect you want to change...the Format WordArt tab appears.
  2. Edit the text, make any other changes you want, and then click OK.

 

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ASSIGNMENT ONE DUE!!!

Save your work! This completed document will be used as your first assignment. In order to receive a certificate for course completion,  you must send this document as an email attachment to the following address: cgeorge@wresa.org . Be sure to include your name and LEA and the name of the course in the body of your email.

You have now completed this module. Take a few minutes to review and practice what you have learned. If you are through for this session, close all programs, being sure to save any work. You may now begin the next module by clicking on the Back to Index link on this page and then clicking on the next module on the homepage of this course.