MS Word Lesson SevenFormatting and Sorting Lists

Mrs. Brown

Bell Ringer

• What is a Cover Letter?

Answer

• A Personal Business Letter that is sent with a resume when applying for a job. You introduce yourself and highlight the qualities that make you suitable for the position.

Lets Review

• Project 11 and 12

Project 11

Project 12

Questions and Answer?

• Project concerns

Content Outline

• Creating a Bulleted List• Creating a Numbered List• Changing the Bullet or Number Formatting• Sorting Paragraphs

Application Skills

• As the customer service manger at the Michigan Avenue Athletic Club, you have recently received a number of complaints about the club’s check-in policy for members who forget their ID badges. In this lesson, you will create a memo to employees about the proper check-in procedure. You will use a bulleted list and a numbered list, and you will sort the bulleted list into alphabetical order. You will revise the memo to send to members.

Vocabulary Words

• Bullet: A dot or symbol that marks an important line of information or designates items in a list.

• Picture: A graphic image stored in a graphic file format

• Sort: To organize items into a specified order.• Symbol: A visual element such as a shape or

mathematical or scientific notation that you can inset as a character into a document

Bullet List• Marks items in a list when the order does not matter• Click the Bullet buttonParagraph grouphome tab• Default is a black dot• Indented 0.25” from the left margin• Can select a different bullet from library or use a

symbol or picture• Selected bullet becomes current bullet and added to

the recently used area in bullet library• Bullet can be selected before or after you begin typing• To end bullet list, press the enter twice or click none

in the bullet library

Lets Practice

• Complete “Try It” page 140

Numbered List• Use numbers to mark a list when order matters• Renumbers when you add or delete items• Default is sequential you can select to restart

numbering in the middle of a list and set number value if other than one

• Default is Arabic• Levels can be changed• Format can be changed• End number list by pressing enter twice or click

none in the number library

Lets Practice

• Complete “Try It” page 141-142

Sort Paragraphs

Lets Practice• Complete “Try It” page 143

Questions

Assignment

• Page 143-142• Research how to turn off the automatic

numbering feature in word.• Create a short memo to me explaining and

illustrating the process

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