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Editing Short Stories: 4.1 Project 1 C 2012jkc

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Page 1: Editing Short Stories: 4.1 Project 1 C 2012jkc. Open a Word document by clicking on Start, All Programs, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Word 2003.

Editing Short Stories:4.1 Project 1

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Click Format on the menu bar and select Paragraph on the drop-down menu to display the Paragraph dialogue box. Select the Indents and Spacing tab and set the alignment for the title to centered.

You can also just click on the center-align toolbar button above to center the story title

Select this tab

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Type the title in all capital letters (uppercase), Font size=12 pt,

formatted bold and center-aligned.

To format the paragraph for double-spacing, click Format, then Paragraph on the drop-down menu to get the Paragraph dialogue box. Select the Indents and Spacing tab and select Double for the “Line spacing” as shown on the left.

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Press Enter, then select the left-align button (to left-align the body of the story), deselect the bold button, then press tab (on the keyboard) to indent the first line of the short story’s paragraphs. Type the rest of the short story. (see next slide for the editing required)

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All caps, bold and center-aligned

“this summer” inserted

between flip and comma (,)

“really bad” (between the words ‘a’ and ‘car’) deleted

The words “would never” is transposed to “never would”

This line is indented to

create a new paragraph

Period (.) inserted hereComma (,) inserted here

Letter “C” here changed from upper case to

lower case

“space” added between “ice” and “cream”

Refer to the textboxes for the editing required on this project.

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