MICROSOFT WORD TEST

This Word document IS your test—just follow the instructions for each item as you
go. Instructions will always be set in Verdana bold italic (this font); text that you
are meant to modify in some way will be set in Times Roman plain (like this). You’ll
find instructions for saving your test when you get to the end—if you have any other
questions as you go, please ask, but remember that I can’t help you “do” anything.

1–6. Change the lines of text below to the formats indicated:

Make this text bold.

Make this text italic.

Underline this text.

Change the font of this sentence to Arial Black.

Make this sentence bold and color the words green.

Make this type 20 points high.

7. Delete the word “stomach” from the sentence below:

Paris Hilton was taken to hospital Friday after a horse she was riding threw her off
and kicked her in the stomach during the taping of The Simple Life 2, a reality show
featuring the hotel heiress and a friend on a 30-day cross-country trip.

8. Insert the word “many” before the word “women” in the following
sentence:

A survey by store chain Woolworth’s has revealed that women burn up 193 calories
on a typical shopping trip.

9. Make the following paragraph double-spaced. (Do not put ‘returns’

between the lines!)

In an emergency session Tuesday, members of the Supreme Metal Council strongly

condemned the increasing use of the metal hand sign in lay society, claiming that its
meaning has become perverted by overuse. “The metal sign, or ‘sign of the goat,’ has
all but lost its impact as a token of respectful recognition for something truly
‘rocking’ or ‘metal,’ ” SMC president Terence “Geezer” Butler said. According to
Butler, members are upset that their sacred gesture is being used to acknowledge and
celebrate “favorable but clearly non-metal events.”
10. If you thought that was easy, triple-space this sentence:

“We have all heard the reports of people using it to greet their in-laws, or after
starting their lawn mowers with a single pull,” Butler said. “But recently it was
brought to our attention that someone used the gesture in a Texas convenience store
after snagging the last box of carrot cakes. This simply won't do.”

11. Change the left and right margins of this document to 0.75 inches.

12. Using the ruler and tabs, place the words below at the distance
indicated from the left margin: one (1.25 in.), two (3.5 in.), three (5.75 in.)

ONE TWO THREE

13. Indent the first line of the following sentence 1.25 inches:

The U.S. fast food firm Wendy’s asked diners “Where's the beef?,” and Nike
commanded sports nuts to “Just do it.” Now Donald Trump is seeking to trademark
another pithy phrase: “You’re fired!”

14. As long as we’re here, see if you can add a registered trademark symbol
(the circle with an “R” in it) after the first two trademarked phrases in the
sentence above. (We’ll leave Trump’s out, since it isn’t a trademark (yet!);
put the symbol after the ending quotes in both instances.)

15. Align the following text as specified:

Center this line of text on the page.

Right-align this text.

16. Using the thesaurus, replace the word ”flotsam” in this sentence with a
synonym beginning with the letter “w.”

17. Insert a page break before question #14, above, so that question #14
begins a new page.

18. Create a header on every page that contains these three lines:
DE Desktop Publishing
Microsoft Word Test
[Today’s Date]

Add a blank line under the date, to create a space between the header and
the body text. Set the text in 9-point Verdana italic. Right-justify the
information, and adjust the settings so the first page does not display this
header.

19. Create a footer on every page that contains an automatic page number
(first page included). Set the page number in 9-point Verdana italic. If you
did #18 correctly, your first page will not be numbered.

20. Insert a 4x3 table immediately after this question. Add labels in the first
row across the top that read “Flashlight,” “Tortoise,” and “Peppermint.”
Add labels in the first column that read “Dave” and “Brad.” (Leave the cell
in the upper left-hand corner of your table empty.)

21. Turn the following list of items into a bulleted list. Leave the bold
heading as it is:

Things To Remember If I Ever Become an Evil Overlord:

I will plan in advance what to do with each of my enemies if they are captured. That
way, I will never have to order someone to be tied up while I decide his fate.
The artifact which is the source of my power will not be kept on the Mountain of
Despair beyond the River of Fire guarded by the Dragons of Eternity. It will be in my
safe-deposit box. The same applies to the object which is my one weakness.
When I’ve captured my adversary and he says, “Look, before you kill me, will you at
least tell me what this is all about?” I’ll say, “No,” and shoot him. No, on second
thought I’ll shoot him then say “No.”
I will be secure in my superiority. Therefore, I will feel no need to prove it by leaving
clues in the form of riddles or leaving my weaker enemies alive to show they pose no
threat.
No matter how well it would perform, I will never construct any sort of machinery
which is completely indestructible except for one small and virtually inaccessible
vulnerable spot.

22. Make the following a numbered list. Again, leave the bold heading
alone:

More Things To Remember If I Ever Become an Evil Overlord:

I will not fly into a rage and kill a messenger who brings me bad news just to
illustrate how evil I really am. Good messengers are hard to come by.
I will be neither chivalrous nor sporting. If I have an unstoppable superweapon, I will
 use it as early and as often as possible instead of keeping it in reserve.
When my guards split up to search for intruders, they will always travel in groups of
at least two. They will be trained so that if one of them disappears mysteriously while
on patrol, the other will immediately initiate an alert and call for backup, instead of
quizzically peering around a corner.
If I am fighting with the hero atop a moving platform, have disarmed him, and am
about to finish him off and he glances behind me and drops flat, I too will drop flat
instead of quizzically turning around to find out what he saw.
My vats of hazardous chemicals will be covered when not in use. Also, I will not
construct walkways above them.

23. Make the middle paragraph (a quotation) of these three into a block
quote, with edges indented 1 inch from the left margin and 1 inch from the
right margin.

Authorities in Abu Dhabi are working with SmartSquare to fit the intelligent box in cars
to improve driver safety and reduce the number of accidents. The 10-week pilot project
will cover 10 types of cars, driven by various nationalities. The vehicles will be fitted
with black boxes so their progress can be monitored. Tarek Niazi, executive director of
SmartSquare, explained:

The black box can be described as intelligence inside the car which warns the driver if
they go over the speed limit. The device would also alert police in the event of an
accident and forward the precise location of the crash. The device can detect if a car
crosses a red light and can issue fines if the driver persists on breaking the law. It has the
ability to directly and timely communicate with police and traffic departments and can
also alert drivers that are driving on the hard shoulder.

The proposed black box would be customised to the Abu Dhabi environment and,
employing latest telecom, GPS and man-machine interface technologies, it will monitor
driving patterns, record car speeds and usage of brakes.

24. Format the following bibliography entries with a 0.5 inch hanging
indent:

Adams, Paul. “Furious Arafat Is Freed.” Globe and Mail [Toronto] 2 May 2002: A1+.

“Beginner Tip: Presenting Your Page with Style.” Webmaster Tips Newsletter. July
2000. NetMechanic. 13 Oct. 2002
<http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol3/beginner_no7.htm>.

Collins, Ronald K.L., and David M. Skover. The Trials of Lenny Bruce: The Fall and
Rise of an American Icon. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2002.
Marshall, Leon. “Mandela in Retirement: Peacemaker without Rest.” National
Geographic.com. 9 Feb. 2001. 13 Mar. 2003
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/02/0209_mandela.html>.

“Mug.” Def. 2. The New Lexicon Webster’s Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English
Language. Canadian ed. 1988.

The Nutcracker. By Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Chor. and Libretto James Kudelka. Cond.
Ormsby Wilkins and Uri Mayer. National Ballet of Canada. Hummingbird Centre,
Toronto. 30 Dec. 1999.

25. Using Find & Replace, change all the instances of the word “the” in this
document to the word “grapefruit.” Your find-and-replace operation should
only replace the word “the,” and not the letters t-h-e. In other words, the
word “weather” should not become “weagrapefruitr”!

26. That’s it—you’re at the end. Insert a piece of clip art beneath this
question that reflects your emotional state at this point! Center it on the
page, and make it 2.5” tall.

The final part of the test is this: Save this revised document to
MyDocuments folder with the filename MS Word Test-[YourName].doc—for
example, mine would be: MS Word Test-Jeff Ferrell.doc.

Then, copy it to the MS Word Test folder on the server to “turn it it.”

Hooray! You’re

FINISHED!

(Geez. Who puts junk like this in a word processing program, anyway?!?)