Basic Editing Skills: Task 1

Functional Skill: Format text to enhance its effect
Skills:

• left, centre, right justification
• font style, font size
• find, replace
• undo, redo

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Basic Editing Skills: Task 2

Functional Skill: Format text to enhance its effect

Skills:

• basic title formatting
• using the spell check tool
• adding words to the dictionary
• paragraph spacing
• paragraph and formatting marks
• format painter
• automatic hyphenation
• page numbers
• inserting the date and time
• saving as a different version
• page breaks
• bullet points
• borders
• header and footer
• changing margins
• inserting symbols

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Basic Editing Skills: Task 3

Functional Skill: Format text to enhance its effect; Tables ; Charts

Skills:

• basic formatting
• Spell check
• Change case
• Drop cap
• Paragraph marks
• Delete text
• Bullet points
• Page break
• Header
• Page numbers
• Find and replace
• Cut and paste text
• Paragraph line spacing
• Format paint tool
• Insert clipart image
• Insert a table
• Format a table
• Sort data in a table
• Columns
• Word count
• Default file location
• Insert a chart

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Fill-in-the-gaps

Students should understand why templates are useful.

This fill-in-the-gaps exercise provides a clear explanation as to the purpose and use of templates.

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Setting up a business letter template

Clear, step-by-step instructions for students to follow in order to create a business letterhead template and then a letter from that template.

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New document based on a template

Clear, step-by-step instructions for students to follow in order to create a new fax, memo and agenda based on an available template.

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