Today's Class Topics:
Worked in Excel
How to make a form (example: Patient Information Form: see below)
Converting text to a table

New Keyboard Shortcuts:
End of a Spreadsheet (CTRL + Right Arrow)
Bottom of a Spreadsheet (CTRL + Down Arrow)

New Things I Learned Today:
There are 16,000 columns in a Spreadsheet
There are 1,048,576 Rows in a Spreadsheet
How to enter data in a Spreadsheet
How to use a Template

New MS Word Ribbon Item:
How to use the Tab buttons and how to position them.  Once you get them in place then you can move them around to make your document look nice.

Screenshot of My Work:

Today's Class Topics:

• How to format a Business Letter
• How to Format a Table within a Business Letter
• Creating a Letterhead

New Keyboard Shortcuts:

• Go, Find, Replace (CTRL G)

New Thing's I learned Today:

• Business Letter Guidelines
• Century Gothic Font saves Ink
• Where the Date and Closing of a Business Letter is Located
• If you have more than one Enclosure be sure to use Bullets

New Microsoft Ribbon Item:
On the Home Tab you have Right Align, Left Align, Center Align, and Justify.  These buttons will put your text on the right, left, centered or justified.

Screenshot of My Work:

Today's Class Topics:

• Formatting a Basic MLA Paper
• How to add a Footnote
• Adding a Table of Contents
• How to add a Header to a document

New Keyboard Shortcuts:

• Find and Replace (CTRL G)
• New Page (CTRL Enter)
• Beginning of Document (CTRL Home)
• End of a Document (CTRL End)

New things I learned Today:

• I learned that in order to insert a Table of Contents into a document you must have Headings.
• We also learned that the cursor is only 1 pixal, the arrow is not the cursor, the very tip of the arrow is the actual cursor.
• Always write words out first and then right after in parenthesis write the abbreviation (Example: Office Equipment and Procedures (OEP)), after you have done that you can then use just the abbreviation.
• It is better to type a document with Show Hide on, so if any thing is not right you know right away and you can fix it. 

New MS Word Ribbon Item:
On the Page Layout tab, I clicked on Line Numbers.  What this button does is it numbers every line in your document.

Screenshots of My Work:

Today's Class Topics:

• Reviewed our Quiz
• How to do Announcements
• MLA (Modern Language Association)

New Keyboard Shortcuts:

• Spell Check (F7)
• Thesaurus (Shift + F7)
• Move 1/2 inch to right (CTRL M)
• Move 1/2 inch to left (Shift CTRL M)

New Things I Learned Today:

• I learned that a gallon of Black Ink cost approximately $10,000
• How to compress an image in a document.
• When using colors for documents use 1 or 2 colors at most.
• How to make custom bullets for documents.

New MS Word Ribbon Button:
On the Page Layout tab if you click on Watermark you can pick a watermark that Word has supplied for you or you can make a custom watermark.  The purpose of the watermark is so that if something is just a copy and you want the reader to know that you can put a watermark on the document stating it is a copy.

Screenshot of My Work:  We did a flyer as one of our assignments and this was the image that I used for the flyer.

Today's Class Topics:

• Sumopaint
• Zipped folders
• PowerPoint Background

New Keyboard Shortcuts:

• Create New File (CTRL N)
• Save As (CTRL S)

New Things I Learned Today:

• How to edit, correct, and design graphics on Sumopaint
• How to zip and unzip files
• How to create a PowerPoint Background
• How to take a graphic that I designed and use it as a PowerPoint Background

New MS Word Ribbon Item:

How to make a comment in an Open Document.  In the "Review" tab, click on New Comment and it lets you write a comment on something that is in your document.

Screenshot of My Work: 

This is my PowerPoint Background that I designed today.

Today's Class Topics:

• We discussed shortcuts for word
• What spacing to use and not to use

New Keyboard Shortcuts:

• Center Shortcut (CTRL E)
• Paste Shortcut (CTRL V)
• 1.5 Spacing (CTRL 5)
• Save (F12)
• Return a whole document to Unformatted Text (CTRL Spacebar)

New things I learned today:

• That font's are designed and what goes into designing font's.
• How certain images if you make them bigger or smaller can pixilate them.
• How using shortcuts can make typing anything a lot easier on you.
• That there are hundreds and hundreds of functions in MS Word.

New MS Word Ribbon Item: Start Mail Merge located in the Mailings Tab.  This button lets you produce address Labels, Envelopes, and E-mail Messages.

MS Word Introduction

• My name is Audrey Wilson and I attend South Florida Community College.
• My program of study is Medical Administrative Assistant.
• I started my classes on January 5, 2012 and I am hoping to be done by May 2013.
• Learning MS Word will not only help me with my career, but to get more familiar with the software.
• I have a little experience, but there is always room for improvement.