Microsoft Word Challenge

Today, I would like you to practice using an assortment of key functions of Microsoft Word.  You will find the document below saved into you network folder.  I would like you to open the document, carefully read the instructions, and complete each and every task. 

Once you finish the document, print it and turn it in to me, you may spend the rest of the class working on Mathletics.  The link can be found here:  http://www.mathletics.com/

Microsoft Challenge for 5^th Grade – With Many Thanks to Lemony Snicket

Name:

Insert Date

Change the font to Papyrus, the font size to 14, and the font color to brown.

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

~The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket

Change the font to Cambria, the font size to 9, and the font color to purple.

“Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.”

― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

Change the font to Juice, put the quote in bold, and center it.

“For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.”

― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

Change the font to Agency FB, put the quote in italics, and double-space it.

“Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for hundreds of years, but that doesn't mean we should all attack ships and steal their gold.”

― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

Change the font to Gigi, the font size to 14, and the font color to blue.

“I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”

― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

Change the font to Kristin ITC, the font size to 12, and highlight the quote in yellow.

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”

― Lemony Snicket

For the next three quotes:

Change the font to Berlin Sans, put the quotes in bold, change the color to red, and spell-check them:

“A new experience can be extremely pleasurable or extremely irritable, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

~The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket

“A pasport, as I'm sure you knuw, is a dociment that one shows to goverment officals whenever one reaches a border between two coutries, so that the official can lern who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photigraphed unflateringly.”

― Lemony Snicket

“If you are a studint you should alwuys get a good nights sleep unles you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all nite and let your schoolwurk fall by the wayside, a phrase which meens 'flunk'.”

― Lemony Snicket

Change the font color to orange, and put the following list in bullets:

The Bad Beginning

The Reptile Room

The Wide Window

The Miserable Mill

The Austere Academy

The Ersatz Elevator

Change the font color to green, and number the following list:

The Vile Village

The Hostile Hospital

The Carnivorous Carnival

The Slippery Slope

The Grim Grotto

The Penultimate Peril

The End

Insert a clip art picture of an apple here:

Insert the shape of a circle here:

Insert a call-out from the shapes menu here.  Insert the word Sunny:

Use Word Art to insert your name here:

Insert a text box here: 

Insert five letters of the alphabet with accents on them:

Put a page number at the bottom of the page.

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Delete All the Instructions.

Move your favorite quote to the top of the page

Save your work and ask Mrs. Morell to print it.