INSTRUCTIONS
Practice Production Assignment

WORD TEST PRACTICE PROBLEM (This assignment will help prepare you for the Production Exam and will serve as a review for this course)

Instructions: Copy and save the text file to your flash drive as your Last Name Practice Problem. Save often so you do not lose any of your work.

Using Document Properties, provide the following information: In the Author box, key your name. In the Title box key CIL PracProd. In the Subject box, key TBE 1501 (To get to Document Properties, select the Office Button; select Prepare; and then select Properties). Follow the instructions below regarding formatting revisions.

PRACTICE PROBLEM FORMATTING AND REVISIONS
Instructions: Assume you have already prepared a title page for an MLA style report. You will now prepare the report itself. Do NOT retype the document, but make the corrections indicated. Resave your practice problem often as you make the changes.

1. Choose the Opulent theme. Select all: Choose No spacing.  Change the complete report to Times New Roman font with a font size of 12.

2. Change all margins to 1 inch.

3.  On the first page only, create a 1.5-inch top margin starting on about line 1.5" or 1.6".

·         Use the enter key to place the heading on Line 1.5 to 1.6. Do not change top margin settings.

·         If your vertical line position is not showing on the Status Bar, right click on the Status Bar and select Vertical Page Position from the Custom Status Bar menu.

·         Once you have the vertical position showing on the Status Bar, you can click on the title and see if you are at 1.5 or 1.6 inches from the top of the page.
 

4. Change the report to double spacing making only the three enumerated paragraphs single spaced. Leave only one blank line between paragraphs including the enumerated paragraphs.

5. Set a first-line indent of 0.5" for the first line of each paragraph. Do not first-line indent the numbered paragraphs.

6. Use the alignment buttons on the Toolbar to justify (left- and right-align) the text for the body of the report.

7. Place automatic page numbers on the upper right hand corner in a header.

·         Place your last name in the header before the page number leaving at least one blank space between your name and the page number.

·         Make sure the Different First Page is checked so the header does not appear on the first page of the report (header tools, design, then different first page).
 

8. Change the numbers 1, 2, and 3 to bullets in the body of the report.

9. Move the bulleted paragraph beginning with “Business Systems Technologies” to be the first bulleted paragraph.

10. Move bullets to be .5 inches from the left margin and the text of the bulleted material to be 1 inch from the left margin.

11. In the last paragraph, the last sentence, just before the word “Department,” insert "TBE" so it reads of the TBE Department.

12. Using Replace from the Editing section of the Ribbon Home Tab, Find and Replace all forms of the letters "TBE" with appropriate forms of the words "Telecommunications and Business Education." (Check under the "More" heading making sure Match Case is used.)

13. After selecting the main title, use the Change Case button on the Ribbon Home tab to change the title to all uppercase letters. Center the title horizontally. Make the title two single-spaced lines with AT WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY as the second line.

14. Add a subtitle with the current date a double space below the title by clicking on Insert, Date and Time under the Ribbon Insert tab.

·         Select the month, day, and year (Month spelled out) to insert today's date.

·         Do not click on "update automatically".

·         Insert your full name under the date

15. Quadruple space between the subtitle and the text following it (four spaces then the text).

16. At the beginning of the second paragraph, at the left margin, add a clipart image of a laptop computer.

·         Make sure placement of the computer graphic is at the left margin beginning on the same line as the first sentence of the paragraph(See the key to make sure placement is correct). 

·         Format the image so that the text wraps around it to the right (tight wrap) and size the clipart to approximately 1 inch square.

·         Reminders: Once you have the clipart in your document, click on the laptop image to get handles around the clipart and to open the Picture Tools Contextual Tab.

·         Use the Format Picture Tools to wrap text, size, and add a Compound Frame, black picture frame Picture Styles Gallery to the laptop picture.

·         Change the frame color to Orange, Accent 6 color.

17. At the end of the second sentence of the third bulleted paragraph, following the word “level” one space after the period insert a footnote that reads: Handy states that there are many opportunities for teaching business education in Utah high schools.

·         At end of the footnote, inside the period using the Insert Citation button on the Ribbon Reference Tab, add a Placeholder named Handy.

·         Double space the footnote and indent the first line .5 inches.
 

18. Insert a single-spaced table between the last two paragraphs of the document (2 columns by 4 rows) using the following information:

·         Center and bold the information in the Row 1 cells.

·         Under the Design Ribbon Tab, select and add the Medium Shading 2-Accent 6 Design (orange).

·         Autofit to contents the entire table. Then using Table Properties, center the table horizontally between the margins.
 

19. At the end of the final paragraph, using a manual page break, create a new page. Key in the heading of Works Cited. The subtitle should be centered.

20. You previously inserted a placeholder named Handy in the footnote. Complete the reference for Handy in MLA format

      Interview:
Interviewee: Handy, Holly,
Title: Business/Marketing Coordinator, Davis School District Interviewer: Talbot, Alden A.
Year: 2007 Month: August
Day: 17

      The in-text citation should be edited to read, Interview, since Handy’s name is in the footnote.

21. At the end of the first paragraph following the word Education and before the period enter a book citation with this information:

      Book:
Author: Kusnierz, Betty J, Editor
Title: Weber State University Catalog, 2007-2008
Year: 2007
City: Ogden, Utah, 84408-1004
Publisher: Academic Affairs, Weber State University

      Edit the in-text citation to read Weber State University Catalog, 2007-2008, with page number of 96-104.

22. In the second paragraph following the word, presentations, inside the comma complete a book citation with this information:

Book:
Authors: Shelly, Gary B., Thomas J. Cashman, and Misty E. Vermaat
Title: Office 2007, Windows XP Edition
Year: 2008
City: Boston
Publisher: Thomson, Course Technology

Edit the in-text citation to Read Author's name and page numbers of PPT1-PPT134.

23. One double space below the subtitle, Works Cited, generate a bibliography of the Works Cited materials (Insert Bibliography).

24. Make sure the citations are in hanging indent format and double spaced between entries.

25. Spell check and proofread the document.

26. You have one more citation to enter through the Manage Sources on the Reference Ribbon.

Miscellaneous:
Author: Your last name, your first name
Title: TBE 1700
Publisher: Your Instructor's last name
Year: Current
Month: Current
Day: Current

27. Update the bibliography to contain all four sources.

28. Check the document for accuracy. If you have questions on the practice problem, ask your instructor for assistance.

29. Make sure the same font and font size has been used throughout the paper. Save the document including your last name in the file name

30. When you are finished, check your document against the three-page key by opening the key file provided on the assignment page in VISTA (BlackBoard online system).

31. Remember to save the document as a 2007 Word file with a .docx extension or .doc if you have an older version of the software.