This activity has been designed to give students experience formatting a Formal Business Report. For this activity, students will open a Microsoft Word text document that is already keyed but is unformatted. Students will use Microsoft Word to correctly format the text into a Formal Business Report according to the guidelines given below. The Practice Business Report assignment is worth 50 points.
INSTRUCTIONS:
In Module 11 under “Assignments To Do” locate the link “Module 11 Practice Report”. When you click the link, a Microsoft Word file will open with the unformatted text of your report. Download the report. When it opens, click “save as” to save this file onto your jump drive or hard drive of your computer. Use the filename Student Last Name – Practice Report (Ex: Doe – Practice Report). Five points will be deducted for using a different file name.
Next, locate the link “Key to Practice Report”. An image file of the report will open with the report correctly formatted with handwritten tips to help you format your document. Your document should look like this when you are finished. You should print these pages to use while working on your document. Below are some additional instructions that you must also follow. It might be helpful to print these instructions you are reading as well. Points will be deduced for NOT following the instructions below.
FORMATTING:
- After you have opened the Word file, turn on Vertical Page Position. To turn on the Vertical Page Position in MS Word, do the following:
- Point your mouse on the very bottom, the gray bar at the bottom of the Word screen, and right-click your mouse.
- When the menu appears, find Vertical Page Positions and put a checkmark by Vertical Page Position. Vertical Page Position will give you a measurement in inches letting you know how far from the top of the page your indicator is. You will need this to properly position your titles.
- Title Page:
- Press the enter key to place the title of your report at 2″ (1.9″ or 2.1″ is fine). You can tell when you are at 2″ by looking at the bottom of your screen where you turned on Vertical Page Position. The measurement (in inches) will change as you press enter to let you know how far from the top of the page you are.
- Format your title and other title page text as indicated on the printout (center text); however, change the year to 2022. Yours should look exactly like mine with exception to the year (2022).
- After the date at the bottom of the title page, insert a page break. You can do this by holding down the Control (ctrl) key and pressing Enter.
- Save again
- Table of Contents:
