Microsoft

Office:
Word
(Assignment
Formatting)
If you see this Yellow band when opened click the
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 1. Selecting Text

Single-click
This will move the cursor to the area you want it to be in.

Double-click
To select a word, double-click it. Word will select to the left and right of the cursor, until it
encounters a space character.

Triple-click
A triple-click selects the current paragraph.

Margin+click
To select an entire line, move the cursor into the left margin. When you see the insertion pointer
turn into an arrow pointer, click. Doing so will select the current line.

All Text
Press CTRL and A at the same time.
2. Undo/Redo

To undo an action.
Click Undo on the Quick Access Toolbar.
You can click Undo (or press both CTRL and Z) repeatedly if you
want to undo multiple steps.

To redo something you've undone.

Click Redo on the Quick Access toolbar.

(The Redo button only appears after you've undone an action.)

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Once you save and exit you can no longer use these functions.
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 3. Navigation Pane

1.
Click
VIEW

Always open this when doing work on assignments.

2. Tick
navigation pane • The Navigation pane in Word lets you navigate through
your document.

• You can also use the Navigation Pane in Word to search

your document.

• You can also use the Navigation Pane in Word to select

and move text that has a “Heading” style applied.

• The first item in the Navigation pane is the “Search

document” search field.
 4. Fonts
2.
1.
Click
Click
▼
Home To
expand

This is where you change your fonts.

Be sure that when submitting assignments the

academic staff may ask for the submission to be
in a certain font.

Press both CTRL and A to select all text.

For this we are using font:

Times New Roman

 5. Font size
2.
1. Click
Click ▼
Home To
expand

This is where you change your font

size.

Be sure that when submitting

assignments the academic staff may
ask for the submission to be in a
certain font size.

Press both CTRL and A to select all text.

For this we are using font size:

12
 6. Font colour

1. 2.
Click Click
Home ▼
To
expand
This is where you change your font colour.

Press both CTRL and A to select all text.

Font colour is:

Black
 7. Alignment

Align to LEFT margin

1.
Click Align to CENTRE
Home

Align to RIGHT margin

Press both CTRL and A to select

all text.

Distribute evenly also used to

justify text in order for it to be
formatted to both right and left
alignments
 8. Line Spacing

2. Select the paragraphs for which you want to

1.
Click change the line spacing.
Click
Home ▼
To On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click
expand Line Spacing

Do one of the following: Click the number of

line spaces that you want.

For example, click 2.0, to double-space the

selected paragraph.

Press both CTRL and A to select all text.

For this we are going to use:

1.5
 9. Numbering

1. 2.
Click Click
Home ▼
To
expand

Unlike line numbering, there’s no

direct way to number paragraphs in
Word.

To number the paragraphs in a

document or automatically number
them as you type, use numbered
lists or multilevel lists.
10. Cover page

Click where you want to insert a new page in a document.

The page you insert will appear before your cursor

location.

1. Insert tab, in the Pages group,

2. Click Blank Page.

Type your text, such as the title and the author, and
modify the page as you want (details on slide 19)
 11. Page Numbering: Part 1
2.
1.
Click
Click one
Insert of
these

3. Look at the drop down that comes up. Where do you

want the page numbers? Top, Bottom or on the margins?

Do you want them from the first page?

If not then Format Page Numbers
 12. Page Numbering: Part 2

4. Click here to format

5. Choose which format

6. Click Different first page as you do not want cover page numbered
 13. Table of contents (TOC) Part 1
In Word, you can create a TOC based on a portion of the text in a paragraph without including the whole paragraph. You
can mark text by using the Lead-in Emphasis feature with heading styles to include the text in a TOC.
To insert a table of contents, follow these steps

1. Mark up your headings using Styles in the home tab

2.
Right
1. Click
Click Heading
Home 1
 14. Table of contents (TOC) Part 2

4. Change
font/Font
3. Select Size/Make Bold
Modify and Change colour
to match these
settings then click
OK

5. Follow the same steps for Heading 2

 15. Table of contents (TOC) Part 3
6. Watch the video below for next steps (a yellow band may open above with a button to
enable, please click enable to watch the video)

If the video is not working, please go to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIO0ih2Xr0s
 16. Table of contents (TOC) Part 4

7. Once all the

9. Headings are marked
Select Table of then scroll to where
Contents you would like your
8. Select TOC to be
References
tab

10.
Select
11. You should now have a table of contents.
Automatic
1 or 2Leo
Remember if you move page numbers or change the
heading you will need to update the TOC!

Do this by clicking on the table and selecting Update Table

at the top and choose the option you want.
17. Inserting pictures that you have saved on your computer

4.
Select
photo

3. Click
Downloads

5. Click
insert
18. Cover page details

This is an example of how it should

look, but your assignment brief should
have full details, we have inserted:

• University name
• Module code and module title
• Title of the work
• Student name
• Student ID number
• Lecturer name