Microsoft Word Skills Macros Quick Parts Breaks Chef

Microsoft Word Skills – Macros, Quick Parts & Breaks Chef Daniel’s Cookbook Student Instructions

This Microsoft Word lesson will review: • Creating and using Macros • Using quick parts • Custom Margins • Inserting Page Breaks • Changing Page Orientation • Apply & Modify Style • Modifying table • Inserting Captions © Tech. Check, 2016 2

Task 1 - Modify the Margins on the entire document so that everything is 0. 55” from the top, bottom, left and right margins. • Layout tab • Margins • Custom Margins • Top 0. 55 • Bottom 0. 55 • Left 0. 55 • Right 0. 55

Task 2 – Apply Styles • Apply the Title Style to the text Chef Daniel’s Cookbook [Highlight the text – Home Tab – Styles Group] • Apply the Heading 1 Style to the 4 recipe titles (Billionaire Bacon, Dan’s Stuffing, French Onion Soup, Buffalo Chicken Dip)

Task 3 – Modify Styles • MODIFY (change) the Heading 1 Style so it uses the Century Schoolbook size 20 font and is Dark Red [Home tab – Styles group – Right-click on the Heading 1 style – Modify – make selection – Click OK]

Task 4 – Record a Macro • Macros are quick shortcuts to doing lots of commands all at once. You can record yourself doing some things and then run that recording anytime you want on any text in any document in the future. It’s a real time-saver for power-users. • Highlight the first set of coming instructions for Billionaire Bacon • Record a Macro called Star. Bullets. Record yourself in the home tab making the font size 12 and then making this text a bulleted list using Star bullets. Finish recording your macro. • [View tab – Macros– Record Macros - Name it - click OK – complete the Home Tab clicks – View tab – Stop Recording]

Task 5 – Using Quick Parts • Quick Parts are fast and easy ways to insert information from your document properties into your document, and they update automatically as you update the document properties • Directly under the title “Chef Daniel’s Cookbook” Insert the Document Property for Status using Quick Parts • [Insert Tab – Text Group – Quick Parts – Document Property - Status]

Task 6 - Modify the table – Autofit the Contents, give it a Table Style - Grid Table 2 Accent 6, Sort the table alphabetically by Dish Name • Highlight Table with 4 pronged arrow • Auto fit the contents: • Layout, Auto. Fit Contents • Table Style: • Design, Grid Table 2 Accent 6 • Sort by column descending order: • Layout, Sort, Dish Name, Ascending

Task 7 - Insert Caption Under the Table – Additional Information • Continue from previous task • Select Table with four pronged arrow • Right Click on Table • Layout, Caption • Type in caption Table 1 - Additional Information– Position - under selected item

Task 8 – Inserting Page Breaks • Place your cursor in front of the heading Buffalo Chicken Dip. Insert a Page Break [Page Layout Tab – Page Setup Group – Breaks Menu – Page Break]

Task 9 – Inserting Continuous Section Breaks • Place your cursor directly above the table. Insert a Continuous Section Break [Page Layout Tab – Page Setup Group – Breaks Menu – Page Break]

Task 10 – Modifying Page Orientation for just one page • Now that we have a new section beginning just before the table (thanks to the section break you just did) let’s change the Orientation of the last page to “Landscape” [Layout Tab – Page Setup Group – Orientation – Landscape] • See how you can now make just one page in a Word document a different orientation while leaving the other pages in Portrait Orientation? Cool huh?

Finish • Save your file as “Last Name + First Name + Cookbook” and send it to me for grading please © Tech. Check, 2016 13