Next Steps with Computers

Exercise 3

Inserting objects into Word

We are going to use the Insert ribbon to insert various objects into our document, this is generally done to make documents more interesting and to help explain subjects visually.

1. Open up a new Word document2. On the ribbons at the top select the Insert ribbon

3. For this exercise we are going to use the Illustrations chunk4. Select Shapes from this chunk and the following options appear

5. Select the rounded rectangle by single clicking on it.

6. You should now have this shape instead of a mouse pointer when hovering over your document.

7. Single click in the document and hold the left mouse button down to drag the shape onto your page, you should have something like this.

8. If you now click anywhere off of the object on your page it will take the highlight off and give you this shape.

9. If you click back on the shape to highlight it, then grab the corners or sides, when the pointer changes to a double arrow to drag and resize.

10. When your shape is the size you require, I want you to highlight it again and we are going to change the format or look of it.

11. When the shape is highlighted you should have a Drawing Tools extra tab appear at the top right of the ribbons.

12. Single click on format and the following screen is displayed.

13. By clicking on the down arrow you will be given more options, choose one by single clicking on it.

14. Should you choose the same as myself you will have the following shape.

15. We have now inserted a shape, and with it highlighted, changed the format or look of the object.

16. Would you now select the insert ribbon and shapes to select a cube shape to do the same exercise.

17. With this completed would you try a few different shapes of your own.