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Below are some tips to help you start your Week 2 Project. The tips show you, step by step, how to create a flyer for your graduation party for your project in Microsoft Office Word. This includes creating a table with evaluation facts as instructed in the Week 2 Project Graduation Party Location, adding a page number in the footer, adding a header, composing a brief paragraph, and applying some formatting elements.

The graduation party locations and evaluation facts shown here are just examples to illustrate the type of information you need to create for your own evaluation table. You are expected to come up with your own graduation party location options, do your own evaluation of the options, and compose your own evaluation analysis and decision in your own words. You cannot reuse the locations, facts and evaluation provided here in this example.

The tips also show you how to work with bulleted or numbered lists, bolding and centering the table headings, changing the font, point size and color of your text, coloring the background of your page, and adding a border to your page. There are many other effects that you can apply to your table, by selecting it, clicking on the context specific tab Design, and working with Table Styles. You may want to experiment with different table design features as you explore creative ways to make your document unique.

Finally, the sample Word document in the visuals below is not meant to show a completely finished assignment deliverable. For your own deliverable, you may want to decorate your document with original formatting features to create interesting visual effects.

Now, let’s go through some typical steps you will want to follow to start your Week 2 Project.

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Step 1. Open Word, create a new blank document, and save the file as W2P_Mylastname

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Step 2. Select the Layout tab, from the Page Setup area select the Orientation option, and from the drop-down menu select Landscape.

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Step 3. As a result, your page now will show in landscape layout, that is, with a full width of 11 inches, and a height of 8 ½ inches.

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Step 4. Insert a title for your event and a caption for the table you are about to create, and you may center them as shown. Then, in the space below, click on Insert tab and from there, click on Table and select the desired shape of your table on the grid. Here, the screen capture shows 6 columns and 4 rows, considering the header row and 3 rows for the location options. Again, this is just an example, you may have more rows for locations if you would like for your case.

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Step 5. You now have inserted a table with 6 columns and 4 rows below your title and caption.

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Step 6. Fill in your table with header information, facts for your locations, including website, entertainment options, positives, negatives, and cost. Below, this information is entered without applying any particular formatting.

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Step 7. Notice, if you select the table by clicking on its upper-left corner, you’ll see a little square symbol appear as shown in the screen capture below, and the contextual tab set Table Tools will appear above the ribbon, and beneath it two table contextual tabs, Design and Layout. You may access these tabs to customize your table by changing its style, manipulating rows and columns and formatting the content. You may want to experiment with the different styles under the Design tab. Remember, if you change something and are not satisfied with the result, you can always apply the Undo option at the top of the ribbon as many times as needed.

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Step 8. Here, no particular formatting is done on the table. Below the table, compose your evaluation paragraph. What is shown below is an example. You will need to compose your own evaluation and what drove your decision for the location you selected. To find out how many words you have written, select your entire paragraph, click on the Review tab, and click on the Word Count function under the Proofing group.

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Step 9. If you want to change the line spacing for your paragraph, select your entire paragraph as shown, then click on the Paragraph group. As an example, select Spacing, then select Line spacing and set it to Double. Click OK if you are done, or go to the next step if you want to continue formatting your paragraph.

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Step 10. If you want to format your paragraph following the APA style, keep the Paragraph window open, then under Special: select First Line and select the value By: 0.5” as shown. Click OK.

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Step 11. Now, your paragraph is double spaced, with first line indented by 0.5” as shown.

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Step 12. To insert a page number in the footer, double click at the bottom of your page, a footer will open, and the body of the document will be grayed out. Place your cursor to the left of the paragraph symbol, click on the Insert tab, click on Page Number under the Header & Footer group, then click on Current Position and select the desired format.

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Step 13. The screen capture below shows the selection of Plain Number for the page number format.

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Step 14. To the left of the page number, you may type Page followed by a space.

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Step 15. To position your page number in the lower-right corner of your page, select the Page and page number text as shown, then under the Home tab, under the Paragraph group, click on the Align Right option.

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Step 16. As a result, now your page number is positioned where you want it in all the pages of your document.

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Step 17. To exit from the Header & Footer Tools, click on Close Header and Footer in the ribbon.

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Step 18. Now, to create a header, once you have exited the footer, scroll to the top of your page, and double click in the very top area of your page. The contextual tab Header & Footer Tools Design will appear, and the header will be ready for editing. The body of your document will appear grayed out as shown. In the left end of your header, type your event name, click <Enter> to go to the next line, and type your full name. Then, exit the Header & Footer Tools by clicking on Close Header and Footer.

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Step 19. To apply some text formatting to your table, select the entire header row as show, then under the Home tab, click on the Center option under the Paragraph group.

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Step 20. The headers in your table are now centered. Keeping the entire header row selected, select the Bold option under the Font group.

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Step 21. As a result, your table header is now centered and in bold font.

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Step 22. As an example of more formatting you could apply to your document, you may want to select your title, here the text “Graduation Party”, and under the Font group in the Home tab, click on the drop-down menu of Font options as shown. Here the font Broadway is selected.

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Step 23. Then, if you want to change the size of your title, click on the Font Size drop-down menu and select the desired Font Size. Here the size 20 points is selected.

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Step 24. With the title still selected, you may change the color by clicking on the Font Color option under the Font group. Here, the color Orange Accent 6 is selected.

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Step 25. If you would like to explore ways to change the look of the background, click on the Design tab, click on Page Color under the Page Background group, and select the desired color. Here the color Aqua Accent 5 Lighter 80% is selected.

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Step 26. To experiment with a border, under the Design tab, click on Page Borders under the Page Background group, select Page Border, and there you may experiment with Style, Color, Width, and Art to customize your border the way you want it.

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Step 27. As a result, you now have a document with evaluation table with basic formatting, header and footer as required, an evaluation paragraph, plus a colored background and a border.

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Step 28. As a final touch in your table, you may want to show your entertainment alternatives, positives and negatives as bullet-item lists. As an example, select a list in a cell under one of the columns; here, the first cell under the Entertainment Options column. Then, under the Home tab, Paragraph group, select the Bullets option. Here, the default bullet style is used, but you may want to experiment with different styles.

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Step 29. The list you selected is now bulleted. But you will notice that by default it is indented to the right by 0.25”. That takes unnecessary space in your table cells, especially if you have a lot of text, so you may want to remove the indentation as follows. With the bullet list still selected, under the Paragraph group, click on the Decrease Indent option.

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Step 30. Your list is now shifted 0.25” to the left in your cell, and takes less space than before.

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Step 31. You may do the same with all your lists and the screen capture below shows the final result.

Again, this is just an example of the type of content, evaluation, and formatting, you could do in your deliverable for the Week 2 Project. Remember that you need to have your original locations, facts and evaluation for your own graduation party. Also, you should experiment with various formatting features to create your own unique presentation.

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