Computer Applications : Microsoft Word Graded Project

Lesson 2 Overview

In this lesson, you’ll create

literature for a Welcome

Package for Healthy Home

Care, Inc. to illustrate the

correct usage of Microsoft

Word 2016.

2.1 Develop the literature for a Welcome Package for Healthy Home Care, Inc. Microsoft Word 2016

READING ASSIGNMENT

Your project must be submitted as a Word document (.docx, .doc). Your project will be individually graded by your instructor and therefore may take up to five to seven days to grade. Be sure that each of your files contains the following information:

Your name Your student ID number The exam number

Your email address

Note: If you have more than 10 attachments, you’ll need to collect all of your files into a compressed folder. To do this, follow these instructions based on your operating system:

Windows: Select the files you want to compress, right-click and select Send to. . . and then Compressed (zipped) folder Mac: Select the files you want to compress, control-click and select Compress

To submit your graded project, follow these steps:

Log in to your student portal. Click on Take Exam next to the lesson you’re working on. Find the exam number for your project at the top of the Project Upload page. Follow the instructions provided to complete your exam.

Be sure to keep a backup copy of any files you submit to the school!

Overview

This project involves a case study based on a fictional company,

Healthy Home Care, Inc. You’ll assume the role of office manager, who

is responsible for creating the literature for a Welcome Package. The

promotional documents will be printed and placed in a folder to be

mailed to the director of a senior center. For this project, you’ll complete

four documents for the package:

1. A cover letter discussing your partnership with a senior center

2. A fact sheet highlighting the services and amenities you offer

3. A flier promoting the next wellness clinic

4. A pre-registration form

Instructions

Create the following documents. Your score will be based on the rubric

found in the scoring guidelines.

Create and Edit a Cover Letter

The Welcome Package includes a letter to the director of a senior

center.

1. Start Word and create a new document.

2. Change the style of the blank paragraph to No Spacing.

3. Type the text shown below, pressing Enter to place one blank line

where indicated, four blank lines in the closing, and four more

blank lines before the word Enclosures, and beginning new

paragraphs where indicated.

Date¶

Ms. Alex Davis¶

Palms Senior Center¶

577 Palm Trail¶

Any Town, FL 12345¶

Dear Ms. Davis:¶

We are excited about the opportunity to partner with Palms Senior

Center to offer your clients in-home services that complement the

services you provide. Healthy Home Care, Inc., services include visiting

nurses, personalized nutrition counseling, physical therapy, light

housekeeping and cooking, and companionship through card games,

board games, and letter writing.¶

As discussed, our partnership with Palms Senior Center will include

sponsorship of the Healthy Home Care, Inc., Club Room at your facility.

Our updated brochure includes the amenities the Club Room will offer

and we already have seen an overwhelming response to the weekly

therapy dogs.¶

Enclosed are 20 copies of the Healthy Home Care, Inc., fact sheet for

you to distribute. Also enclosed are fliers about our next wellness clinic

to take place in the Club Room. The wellness clinic is free to anyone

who completes a no-obligation pre-registration for, also enclosed.¶

Please feel free to call me at (123) 456-7890 with any questions or

concerns.¶

In good health,¶

Malik Wyatt¶

Office Manager¶

Healthy Home Care, Inc.¶

456 Olive Ave.¶

Any Town, FL 12345¶

Enclosures¶

Your document should now look similar to that shown below.

[An image of a new word document with formatted Wellness Clinic at the Palms

Senior Center cover letter text.]

4. Replace the word Date with a time stamp displaying a date that

updates automatically in the format “Month, Date, Year.”

5. Edit the first paragraph to display the Healthy Home Care, Inc.,

services as a bulleted list with each item starting with an uppercase

letter, as below.

We are excited about the opportunity to partner with Palms Senior

Center to offer your clients in-home services that complement the

services you provide. Healthy Home Care, Inc., services include:

Visiting nurses

Personalized nutrition counseling

Physical therapy

Light housekeeping and cooking

Companionship through card games, board games, and letter

writing.

6. Bold the three occurrences of Healthy Home Care, Inc., within the

body of the letter.

7. Save the document, naming it “Healthy Home Care letter.”

Create a Fact Sheet

The Fact Sheet needs to display the Healthy Home Care, Inc., services

in large print.

1. Start Word and create a new document.

2. Change the style of the blank paragraph to No Spacing.

3. Type the text shown below, pressing Enter to start new paragraphs

where shown.

Healthy Home Care, Inc.

We Provide Services with Heart

Who is Healthy Home Care, Inc.? A network of qualified personnel to

meet your in-home health care needs.

Where is Healthy Home Care, Inc., located? We are your hometown

provider with a Club Room at Palms Senior Center for group interaction.

What services does Healthy Home Care, Inc. provide?

Visiting nurses

Personalized nutrition counseling

Physical therapy

Light housekeeping and cooking

Companionship through card games, board games, and letter

writing.

Your document should now look similar to that shown below.

[An image of a new word document with formatted Wellness Clinic at the Palms

Senior Center fact sheet text. ]

4. Change the margins to 2 inches on the left and right and 1 inch on

top and bottom.

5. Replace the first two lines of text with appropriately formatted

WordArt that has a Wrap Text format of Square and is centered

above the rest of the text, similar to that shown below.

[An image of the Wellness Clinic at the Palms Senior Center fact sheet with wordart

applied to the first two lines. ]

6. Format the remaining text as Georgia 16 point.

7. Bold the three questions only.

8. Press Enter after the last question and then format the answer

paragraphs as a bulleted list, using a character other than the •

symbol.

9. Format the bulleted list with 12-point spacing after each paragraph.

10. Save the document, naming it “Healthy Home Care fact sheet.”

Create a Flier

The flier will promote the Wellness Clinic at Palms Senior Center.

1. Start Word and create a new document.

2. Change the document orientation to Landscape.

3. Type the text shown below.

Wellness Clinic*

Where: Club Room at Palms Senior Center

When: Wenesday, 10:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M

Complimentary healthy lunch provided

*Please see Director for no-obligation Healthy Home Care, Inc., pre-

registration form, which must be turned in for admission to Wellness

Clinic.

4. Change the margins to 0.3 inch on all sides.

5. Your document should look similar to that shown below.

[An image of a new word document with formatted Wellness Clinic at the Palms

Senior Center flier text.]

6. Format the title in Comic Sans MS 72 point, bold, dark green.

7. Select the next three lines of text and apply the Heading 1 style.

8. Modify the Heading 1 style with the following formats:

a. Arial 26 point bold

b. Dark gray color

c. Center alignment

9. Format the last line of text with 2-inch right and left indents and

then change the font to Arial 9 point.

10. In the blank paragraph after Complimentary, insert an appropriate

clip art image of fruit.

11. Size the clip art so all the text is on one page, and then center the

image.

12. Save the document, naming it “Healthy Home Care flier.”

Create a Pre-Registration Form

The pre-registration form will be used to compile names of prospective

clients.

1. Start Word and create a new document.

2. Insert a 5 by 11 table.

3. Merge the cells in the top row.

4. Select only Header Row in Table Style Options and then select a

table style with blue shading in the first row.

5. Type the form title (Healthy Home Care, Inc. Pre-registration form)

as shown below and format the first line of text as Arial 20 point,

bold and the second line as Arial 16 point, regular.

[An image of new word document with Wellness Clinic at the Palms Senior Center

pre-registration form with formatted header text.]

Name

Address

City State Zip Phone

Circle services you would like to know more about:

Visiting Nurse Nutrition Counseling Shopping Cooking Light Cleaning

Organization Physical Therapy Activities Other:

Please use this space to write your questions:

6. For the remainder of the form, type text and merge cells as in the

table above. After merging cells in the last row, change the row

height to 4.5 inches. Change the row heights of the cells containing

text to 0.3 inch. Your document should look similar to the figure

below.

[An image of new word document with Wellness Clinic at the Palms Senior Center

pre-registration form with formatted cells. ]

7. Save the document, naming it “Healthy Home Care pre-registration

form.”

Scoring Guidelines

Rubric

Skill/Grading Criteria

Exemplary (4)

Proficient (3)

Fair (2)

Poor (1)

Apply a Word Style

Appropriate paragraphs are in the indicated Word style.

Most paragraphs are in the| indicated Word style.

Some paragraphs are in the indicated Word style.

Few paragraphs are in the indicated Word style.

Insert a time stamp

A time stamp set to update automatically is displayed in the format Month, Date, Year.

A time stamp set to update automatically is displayed in any format.

A time stamp not set to update is displayed in any format.

A date has been typed.

Edit Text and format

as a bulleted list

All of the indicated paragraphs have been edited and formatted as a bulleted list.

Most of the indicated paragraphs have been edited and formatted as a bulleted list.

Some of the indicated paragraphs have been edited and formatted as a bulleted list.

An attempt has been made to format the indicated text in a list style.

Apply the bold

character format

All of the indicated text has been formatted as bold.

Most of the indicated text has been formatted as bold.

Some of the indicated text has been formatted as bold.

The wrong text has been formatted as bold.

Change margins

All margins have been changed to the measurements indicated.

Most of the margins have been changed to the measurements indicated.

Some of the margins have been changed to the measurements indicated.

The margins have been changed to the wrong measurements.

Create WordArt and change wrap

Appropriate WordArt has been created, sized, formatted, and given the appropriate wrap.

Appropriate WordArt has been created, sized, and formatted.

Appropriate WordArt has been created and sized.

WordArt has been created but is neither appropriate nor formatted.

Format text in a different

font

All of the indicated text has been formatted with the correct typeface, size, and style where indicated.

Most of the indicated text has been formatted with the correct typeface, size, and style where indicated.

Some of the indicated text has been formatted with the correct typeface, size, and style where indicated.

None of the indicated text has been formatted with the correct combination of typeface, size, and style where indicated.

Change the bullet style

of a list

All of the indicated paragraphs have been edited and formatted as a bulleted list with an appropriate bullet character.

Most of the indicated paragraphs have been edited and formatted as a bulleted list with an appropriate bullet character.

Some the indicated paragraphs have been edited and formatted as a bulleted list with an appropriate bullet character.

An attempt has been made to format the indicated text in a list style.

Change paragraph spacing

All of the indicated paragraphs have the appropriate paragraph style.

Most of the indicated paragraphs have the appropriate paragraph style.

Some of the indicated paragraphs have the appropriate paragraph style.

An attempt has been made to add spacing between paragraphs without changing the paragraph style.

Change page

orientation

The document orientation is Landscape.

Create indents

The indicated paragraph has right and left indents of the appropriate measurements.

The indicated paragraph has either a right or left indent of the appropriate measurement.

The indicated paragraph has right and left indents, but of the wrong measurements.

Spaces, tabs, or some other character was used in an attempt to change indents.

Apply color to text

All of the indicated text has been formatted in the appropriate color.

Most of the indicated text has been formatted in the appropriate color.

Some of the indicated text has been formatted in the appropriate color.

The wrong text has been formatted in a color.

Modify a built-in style

All of the indicated changes have been made to the Word style.

Most of the indicated changes have been made to the Word style.

Some of the indicated changes have been made to the Word style.

Few of the indicated changes have been made to the Word style.

Insert clip art

An appropriate clip art image has been inserted, sized, and formatted.

An appropriate clip art image has been inserted and sized.

An appropriate clip art image has been inserted.

A clip art image has been inserted but is neither related to the content nor has it been formatted.

Insert a table A table of the specified size has been inserted.

A table of the wrong size has been inserted.

Tabs have been used to create rows and columns of data.

Text has been typed with no attempt to organize it.

Merge table cells

All of the indicated table cells have been merged.

Most of the indicated table cells have been merged.

Some of the indicated table cells have been merged.

Few of the indicated table cells have been merged.

Apply a table style

A Word table style with the appropriate options has been applied.

A Word table style with the appropriate options has been applied without top row shading.

A Word table style with the wrong options has been applied.

An attempt has been made to format the table by applying separate cell formats.

Format table row height

All of the indicated rows have the appropriate height.

Most of the indicated rows have the appropriate height.

Some of the indicated rows have the appropriate height.

The indicated rows have been changed to the wrong height.

Submission Checklist

Before submitting your project, make sure you’ve correctly completed

the following:

Create, save, and name a file

Type text

Edit text

Change page orientation

Character formats, including typeface, point size, bold, and color

Apply Word styles

Modify a Word style

Insert an automatically updating time stamp

Paragraph formats, including alignment, spacing, and indents

Create WordArt

Insert clip art

Change the wrap and size of an image

Use bulleted lists, including changing the default bullet

Insert a table

Change table formats using Table Styles

Change cell formats using Text and Paragraph Styles

Change table structure, including merging cells and row heights

Type data into a table

Be sure to keep a backup copy of any files you submit to the school!

Key Points

READING ASSIGNMENT

Key Points

You use Styles list located on the Home Ribbon to apply a

collection of formatting instructions to the paragraphs in your

documents.

You use the Insert Date and Time button on the Insert Ribbon to

add a time stamp, which uses the computer system’s date and time

to automatically enter the current date in your documents.

You use the Enter key to start a new paragraph or to create blank

lines between paragraphs.

You use the Margins button on the Layout Ribbon to alter the size

of the right and left, and top and bottom margins.

You use the Insert WordArt button located on the Insert Ribbon to

add decorative text to your documents.

You use the Font and Font Size drop-down lists located on the

Home Ribbon to apply a font type and size that vary from the set

Word styles.

You use the Orientation button on the Layout Ribbon to change

your page layout from Portrait to Landscape or vice-versa.

You use the Font Color button located on the Home Ribbon to

change the color of selected text in your document.

You use the Online Pictures button on the Insert Ribbon to add clip

art to your documents.

You use the Table button on the Insert Ribbon to add a table with

your selected number of columns and rows to your documents.

You use the Table Styles Options and Table Options Features on

the Table Tools|Design Ribbon to apply professional formatting to

your document tables.

You select cells in your table, then use the Merge Cells button on

the Table Tools|Layout Ribbon to combine multiple cells into one.

What You Need to Know Before Submitting Your Microsoft Word

Graded Project

VIDEO STUDY MATERIAL

Watch this video for tips on how to save the Word document, the material to be provided for the project, and what must be uploaded for grading.

Watch this video for tips on how to save the Word document, the

material to be provided for the project, and what must be uploaded for

grading.

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efault/index.html?videoId=6109272499001)

Lesson 2 Review

Self-Check

1. A charity asks you to create a document in Word to track donations.

The charity will attach this document to an email addressed to the

people on its mailing list. Donors will print the document, fill in their

personal information and donation amount, then mail the document

back to the charity. What type of document have you been asked to

create?

a. Flier

b. Cover letter

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c. Form

d. Fact sheet

2. You have a car for sale and want to let the local community know the

make, model, and year of the vehicle, sale price, and your phone

number. You also would like to include a photograph of the car. What

type of document would you create to post around town?

a. Flier

b. Fact sheet

c. Cover letter

d. Form

3. If you want to quickly apply formatting instructions to the paragraphs

in your document, what Word feature do you use?

a. Font Type and Size

b. Word Art

c. Styles

d. Font Color

4. Where would you find the Word settings for altering margins and

page orientation?

a. The Page Ribbon

b. The Home Ribbon

c. The Layout Ribbon

d. The Format Ribbon

5. You would like the heading of your document to be a gradient fill

decorative feature with a reflection. What feature should you use?

a. Font Style

b. Document Effects

c. Smart Art

d. Word Art

Self-Check Answer Key

1. Form

Explanation: You’ve been asked to create a form, which is a

document with blank spaces for someone to enter requested

information.

Reference: Section 2.1

2. Flier

Explanation: You want to create a flier, which is a short document

advertising an event, service, or product for sale.

Reference: Section 2.1

3. Styles

Explanation: You use the Styles list located on the Home Ribbon to

apply a collection of formatting instructions to the paragraphs in

your documents.

Reference: Section 2.1

4. The Layout Ribbon

Explanation: Margins and orientation are page setup features

available on the Layout Ribbon.

Reference: Section 2.1

5. Word Art

Explanation: Word Art is text predefined with decorative formatting

that you can add to a document.

Reference: Section 2.1

Flash Cards

1. Term: Cover Letter

Definition: A letter of introduction explaining accompanying materials

2. Term: Fact Sheet

Definition: A short document that provides details on a subject

3. Term: Form

Definition: A document with blank spaces for someone to enter

requested information

Lesson 2 Overview
Overview
Instructions
- Create and Edit a Cover Letter
- Create a Fact Sheet
- Create a Flier
- Create a Pre-Registration Form
Scoring Guidelines
- Rubric
- Submission Checklist
Key Points
- Lesson 2 Review

Computer Applications : Microsoft Word Graded Project

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