Understanding and Goals

Understandings and Goals Enduring Understandings In this unit, the student will: • Use basic word processing commands to create, format, and edit documents. • Identify common on‐screen elements of a word processing applications. • Perform common editing and formatting functions. • Perform basic desktop publishing applications. Essential Questions • Why is word processing so important? • What kinds of jobs use word processing skills? • How can word processing make your life easier? • Why is it important to follow appropriate desktop publishing guidelines?

Vocabulary Identify and review the unit vocabulary.

 

Alignment

Bold

Buffer

Bullet

Clip Art

Clipboard

Copy

Crop

Cut

Default

Delete

Desktop Publishing

Enter

Find

Font

Format

Gutter

Handles

I-Beam

Import

Insert

Italics

Justification

Layout

Margin

Masthead

Orphan

Paste

Replace

Ruler

Sans Serif

Save As

Serif

Spacebar

Spacing

Spell Checker

Tab

Type (Font) Size

Underline

White Space

Widow

Word Wrap