Log on to the Internet and locate a Web page on any topic
that relates to your company's products and services. The web page must have
at least one full page of text. Copy the text into Microsoft Word using the
copy and paste feature. You may need to turn on nonprinting characters located
on the Standard toolbar or press Shift + Ctrl + *, and delete any unnecessary
hard returns or spaces at the end of paragraphs.
Use single spacing and 12-point font.
In Word, create a two column newsletter from the copied
text. Be sure your title is not included within the columns. If the web page
does not include a title, make one up. The title should appear centered across
both columns in your newsletter. Also include side headings to the newsletter.
To create a two column newsletter, complete the following steps:
Change to Print Layout View.
Select the Title and change the font to 14-point Times
New Roman bold.
Select each of your side heading individually and
then turn on bold.
Select the text in the document, all but the title
and the blank line below below the title. With the text selected, make
the following changes:
Change the font to 11-point Times New Roman.
Change the line spacing to single.
Display the Tabs dialog box (Format-Tabs) and
set the left tab to 0.2 (the default left tab is .5).
Deselect the text.
Move the insertion point to the end of your title
and then press the Enter key.
Format the text into two newspaper columns by
completing the following steps:
Position the insertion point at the left margin
of the first heading (the beginning of the body of the document-below
the title).
Click Format and then Columns
At the Columns dialog box, click the Two option
in the Presets section.
Click the down-pointing triangle at the right
side of the Apply to text box and click This Point Forward at
the drop-down list.
Click OK or press Enter
Insert a vertical line between the columns by completing
the following steps:
With your insertion point still at the left margin
at the beginning of the document, click Format the then Columns.
At the Columns dialog box, click the Line between
option.
Click OK or press Enter.
Use full justification. To full justify, complete the
following steps:
Select all the text in the body of the document, excluding
the title.
Click Format and then Paragraph.
At the Paragraph dialog box with the Indent and Spacing
tab selected, click the down-pointing triangle at the right of the Alignment
text box, and then click Justified.
Click OK or press Enter.
Deselect the text.
Automatically hyphenate the document by following the
steps below:
Click Tools, point to Language, and then click Hyphenation.
At the Hyphenation dialog box, click the up-pointing
triangle at the right of the Limit consecutive hyphens to text box until
2 displays in the text box.
Click Automatically hyphenate document.
Click OK.
Use a Drop Cap for the first letter of the first paragraph
only by completing the following steps:
Position the insertion point anywhere in the first
paragraph.
Click Format and then Drop Cap.
At the Drop Cap dialog box, click Dropped in the Position
section.
Click OK.
Deselect the drop. (To do this with the mouse, click
anywhere in the document screen outside the drop cap).
Insert a clip art image in an appropriate location and
adjust the wrapping style to Square.
