Hands-On Exercises

Vernier Luxury Suites: Inserting a Clip Art Image

Barb Pietro, the accounting manager for Vernier Luxury Suites, has begun a program for selling discounted meal tickets to employees for use in the employee cafeteria. She has created a sign to hang in the cafeteria and wishes to spice it up with some clip art. Assume the role of Barb and perform the steps she identifies.

1. Open the WD06XTRA01 data file and then save it as "meal tickets sign" to your personal storage location.
2. Let’s insert a clip art image in this document. With the insertion point at the bottom of the document, do the following:

3. CHOOSE: Insert, Picture, Clip Art

4. Barb wants a positive image for the bottom of the sign:

5. SELECT: the text in the Search text text box

   TYPE: success

   CLICK: Search command button

6. In the Insert Clip Art task pane, locate the image pictured in Figure 6.1 and then click the image. The image should be displaying in the document.
7. By referring to Figure 6.1, resize the clip art image.
8. Close the Insert Clip Art task pane and then deselect the clip image by clicking in the first paragraph. Your screen should now appear similar to Figure 6.1.

Figure 6.1 "meal tickets sign" document

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9. Save and then close the document.

Get File: WD06XTRA01 (24.0K)

Temporary Solutions: Creating a Business Diagram

Kim Megan, Marketing Director for Temporary Solutions, is creating materials for an upcoming department meeting. Assume the role of Kim as she prepares a Target diagram.

1. Create a new blank document.
2. Create a target diagram in the document.

3. CHOOSE: Insert, Diagram

   SELECT: Target Diagram type

   CLICK: OK command button

4. Add an additional circle to the diagram.

5. CLICK: Insert Shape button on the Diagram toolbar

6. Using Figure 6.2 as a guide, add text to the diagram. Format the text as Arial bold.

Figure 6.2 Target diagram with text

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7. Apply new colors to the rings.

8. CLICK: on the center circle in the diagram

   CLICK: down arrow attached to the Fill Color button (<a onClick="window.open('/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=gif:: ::/sites/dl/free/0072471026/26780/WCh06_acq_Image3.gif','popWin', 'width=NaN,height=NaN,resizable,scrollbars');" href="#"><img valign="absmiddle" height="16" width="16" border="0" src="/olcweb/styles/shared/linkicons/image.gif"> (1.0K)</a> )
   SELECT: Bright Green from the color palette

   Repeat these steps with the three rings, following the example shown in Figure 6.3.

   Figure 6.3 Target diagram with color formatting

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9. Add a 3-D effect to the diagram.

10. CLICK: on the center circle of the diagram

    PRESS: the Shift key and hold it down

    CLICK: the three rings of the diagram

    RELEASE: the Shift key

    CLICK: 3-D Style button (<a onClick="window.open('/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=gif:: ::/sites/dl/free/0072471026/26780/WCh06_acq_Image6.gif','popWin', 'width=NaN,height=NaN,resizable,scrollbars');" href="#"><img valign="absmiddle" height="16" width="16" border="0" src="/olcweb/styles/shared/linkicons/image.gif"> (0.0K)</a> ) on the Drawing toolbar

    SELECT: 3-D Style 5

    Your diagram should now appear similar to Figure 6.4.

    Figure 6.4 "Sales Diagram" document

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11. Save the document as "Sales Diagram" to your personal storage location and close the document.

Jan Dice: Creating and Manipulating Draw Objects

Jan Dice has volunteered to create signs pointing to her neighborhood’s annual yard sale. She decides that it would be a good idea to use a prominent arrow to point the way. Assume the role of Jan as she creates the sign using Draw Objects.

1. Create a new blank document.
2. Change the orientation of the document to landscape and set the zoom to view the whole page.
3. Add a Block Arrow AutoShape pointing to the right. Resize to match the example in Figure 6.5.

Figure 6.5 Block Arrow AutoShape

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4. Format the arrow with a red fill.
5. Add the text "NEIGHBORHOOD YARD SALE" to the arrow. Format the text as 72 point Arial colored white.
6. Use the yellow Adjustment Handle to tweak the shape of the arrow so that it matches the example shown in Figure 6.6.
7. Save the document as "Yard Sale Sign" and close it.

Figure 6.6 "Yard Sale Sign" document

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