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Lab Assignment ‘n Activity Subject Enrichment
Complete the following activities and tick on the circle.
ª Begin ‘Writer’ on your computer and create a new document.
ª Type the name of the seven wonders of the world.
ª Type the details under each of the seven wonders. The document should be of 7 pages.
ª Save the document with the name, as ‘wonders’ and then close the document.
EDITING TEXT
Making changes in the existing text is known as ‘Editing’. After entering text in a document, the user
may wish to modify the contents. Editing of a document involves modifying, inserting, deleting the
selected text of a document. Edit menu provides various editing options like Undo, Redo, Cut, Select,
Copy, Paste, etc., which help in modifying the contents of a document.
Selecting Text
‘Selecting Text’ means selection of a particular area of a document. There are different ways of selecting
contents:
Items to Select Using a Mouse Using a Keyboard
Character Drag the mouse over a character. Press ‘Shift+Left/Right’ arrow button
from the beginning of a character.
Word Double click anywhere on the word or Press ‘Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right’ arrow
drag the mouse over the word. button from the beginning of the
character.
Lines Click on the beginning of the line and Press ‘Shift+Down/Up’ arrow over the
drag up to the required area of line or line from the beginning of character.
click three times anywhere in the line.
Paragraph Click four times anywhere in a Press ‘Ctrl+Shift+Down/Up’ arrow
paragraph. button from the beginning of the
character.
Entire Document Click on the beginning of the Press ‘Ctrl+A’.
document and drag till the end.
Rectangular Areas Alt+drag over the area. Press ‘Ctrl+Shift+F8’ and Arrow button
from the beginning of the character.
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