Document Presentation

• Part 1
  • Some of this chapter is light weight, so we will go quickly
  • Fonts:
    • Fonts are artwork.
    • Fonts are designed for several purposes
      • To make a document "pretty"
      • To make a document easier to read.
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      • A serif font contains lines at the end of each stroke
      • A sans serif does not.
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      • Serif fonts are designed to help your eye flow across the text.
      • Most large documents should employ a serif font.
    • Fonts are measured in points from the old typesetting days.
      • The larger the points, the larger the font.
      • Normal documents employ 11 or 12 point fonts.
    • Fonts and font type attributes are controlled
      • Through the font box on the HOME tab
      • Through the font dialog box
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      • Or through the Mini Toolbar for a highlighted section of text.
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    • He shows how to highlight text.
    • And add all kinds of zany font effects.
  • Paragraphs
    • Through the Paragraph box on the home tab.
    • Or some in the context dependent menu.
    • Make sure you know what left justified, right justified, fully justified or fully aligned means.
    • Understand the line and paragraph spacing menu.
      • 
      • Options : setting indent and hanging indent.
    • And the borders tool.
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  • He introduces tabs.
  • And Bulleted and Numbered lists.
• Part 2
  • While the stuff in the previous section is nice, if you are not careful you will have inconsistently formatted documents.
  • Applying a theme
  • To effectively do this you need to:
    • Remove all old formatting
      • Select the entire document.
      • Select Styles in the Home Tab and select clear all
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    • Employ styles from the home tab to format titles, headings and other items.
    • Use a predefined style sheet (Design Tab)
    • Or define a style sheet.
  • Sections break the document into different logical pieces.
    • Placing portions of a document into multi column mode is done with section breaks.
      • Highlight text, go to Page Layout then Columns
      • Use Hide/Show to see where section breaks were inserted.
    • There are several types:
      • Continuous: keeps you on the same page but breaks the document into logical sections for formatting
      • Next page: Starts the next section on a new page.
      • Even and Odd: Break for odd or even pages. Notice, your text starts each new chapter on an odd (left hand) page.
      • When we go to mess with page numbers, you will need to use section breaks.
    • He discusses how to change a style
    • If I used word, I would have my own set of styles that I use
    • Conferences/journals frequently have predefined style sheets in which documents must be written.
  • An additional benefit from using styles is that the outline view is really nice.
• Part 3
  • This is a pure fun section.
  • He discusses inserting objects (pictures, tables, ...)
  • Pictures
    • Insert tab, lots of choices here.
    • After it is there, the layout options are very important.
      • This has always been flaky in word.
      • And sometimes you can't move things as you wish in some settings.
    • I like the new Remove Background on the Picture Tools Format tab.
    • But there are many other cool things here too.
    • Play for a moment or two.
    • I like word art as well (Insert tab, text box,