In Practice Word 365: Application Capstone
Project 1

Windows Mac

For this project, you use Microsoft Word to create a report for Sierra Pacific Community College District. You use many of the formatting, report, and table features used in Chapters 1-4.
[Student Learning Outcomes: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.5]

Files Needed: FinancialAid-Word-ACP-1.docx and SPPCD-logo.png

Completed Project File Names: [your name]-FinancialAid-Word-ACP-1.docx

Skills Covered in this Project

• Change font size, style, alignment, and color.
• Change line and paragraph spacing.
• Customize margins.
• Apply a theme and theme color.
• Apply and update a style.
• Use and customize bullets.
• Use the Format Painter.
• Customize indents.
• Set a custom tab stop.
• Use the Smart Lookup feature.
• Review and delete comments.
• Convert text to a table.
• Apply a table style, change row height, and customize text alignment in a table cell.
• Insert and customize a footnote.
• Select a bibliography style.
• Insert a citation placeholder and edit source information.
• Insert and customize a references page.
• Insert and customize a table of contents.
• Insert a picture and change size and placement.
• Add document properties.
• Insert a custom footer with document properties, page number, and different first page.
• Apply a border.
• Insert and customize a hyperlink.

1. Open the FinancialAid-Word-ACP-1 Word document start file. If the document opens in Protected View, click the Enable Editing button so you can modify it.
2. The file will be renamed automatically to include your name. Change the project file name if directed to do so by your instructor.
3. Format the report and apply and customize styles.
   1. Select the entire document and change the font size to 11 pt., the line spacing to 1.15, and the After paragraph spacing to 10 pt.
   2. Change the top, bottom, left, and right margins to 1”.
   3. Apply the Retrospect theme to the document.
   4. Change the theme colors to Blue Warm.
   5. Apply the Title style to the first line of the document.
   6. Select the title on the first page, center it horizontally, and apply bold text formatting.
   7. Apply the Heading 1 style to each of the bolded headings in the document (5).
   8. Select the first section heading on the first page (“Financial Resources”), apply bold and small caps formatting, and change the font color to the fifth color in the last row of Theme Colors (Blue-Gray, Accent 1, Darker 50%).
   9. Change the After paragraph spacing on the first section heading to 3 pt.
   10. Select the first section heading (if necessary) and Update Heading 1 to Match Selection. All other headings with this style applied update automatically.
4. Apply and customize bullets.
   1. Select “Federal grants” through “Scholarships” on the first page in the “Types of Financial Aid” section.
   2. Apply a solid black square bullet (Wingdings font, character code 110, ) to the selected text.
   3. Select the bulleted list and change the Left indent to 0.5”.
   4. Use the Format Painter to copy the format of the bulleted list to body paragraphs 2-7 in the “Financial Aid Information” section (all paragraphs except the heading and first paragraph in the section).
   5. Use the Format Painter to copy the bullet formatting to the two enrollment status criteria lists in the “Enrollment Status” section on the last page (Figure 1).
      

   6. Select all four lines of the first bulleted list in the “Enrollment Status” section.
   7. Set a left tab stop at 2.25”.
   8. Use the Format Painter to apply this formatting to the second bulleted list in the “Enrollment Status” section.
   9. Select both bulleted lists and the paragraph between them in the “Enrollment Status” section and change the After paragraph spacing to 4 pt. (see Figure 1).
5. Convert text to a table.
   1. Turn on Show/Hide if it is not already on.
   2. Select the tabbed lines of text in the “College Expenses” section (“Expenses” through “$17,682”).
   3. Convert the selected text to a table with 3 columns, AutoFit to contents, and separate text at Tabs.
6. Customize a table.
   1. Select the entire table (if necessary) and change the After paragraph spacing to 0 pt.
   2. Insert a row above the first row in the table.
   3. Merge the cells in the new first row and type Estimated Annual College Expenses.
   4. Apply the Grid Table 4, Accent 4 table style to the table.
   5. Apply Table Style Options to the Header Row, Total Row, and Banded Rows and deselect all other table style options.
   6. Change the row height of the entire table to 0.2”.
   7. Change the alignment of the first row to Align Top Center.
      

   8. Change the alignment of the second and third columns to Align Top Right.
   9. Bold the text in the second row.
   10. Select the entire table and change the horizontal alignment to center (Figure 2).
   11. Adjust column widths to keep text from wrapping, if necessary.
7. Use Smart Lookup and Review Comments.
   1. Review the comment in the “Financial Aid Information” section.
   2. Use Smart Lookup to find information about FAFSA.
   3. Review the search results in the Smart Lookup pane.
   4. Close the Smart Lookup pane and delete the comment.
8. Insert a footnote.
   1. Place your insertion point after “Fees ($46/unit)” in the first column of the table.
   2. Insert a footnote and type: The estimated fees are based on the average units for a full-time student (12 units x $46 per unit).
   3. Change the footnote number format to a, b, c ….
   4. Use AutoFit Contents if any lines of text wrap in the table.
9. Add placeholders and citations to the document and edit the citations.
   1. Select APA as the bibliography style from the Bibliography Style drop-down list on the References tab.
   2. Place your insertion point at the end of the body paragraph but before the period in the “Financial Resources” section on the first page. Add New Placeholder named SPCCD. Place your insertion point at the end of the third bulleted item but before the period in the “Financial Aid Information” section on the second page. Add a new placeholder named FAFSA.
   3. Use the Source Manager dialog box [References tab, Citations & Bibliography group] and edit the SPCCD placeholder to add the following information (check the box Show All Bibliography Fields if necessary):
      Type of Source: Web site
      Corporate Author: Sierra Pacific Community College District
      Name of Web Page: Financial Aid
      Year: 2018
      Year Accessed: 2020
      Month Accessed: January
      Day Accessed: 12
      URL: www.spccd.edu/financialaid.html
   4. Edit the FAFSA placeholder to add the following information (check the box Show All Bibliography Fields):
      Type of Source: Web site
      Corporate Author: U.S. Department of Education
      Name of Web Page: Federal Student Aid
      Year: 2019
      Year Accessed: 2019
      Month Accessed: December
      Day Accessed: 8
      URL: https://fafsa.ed.gov
   5. Close the Source Manager dialog box. Place your insertion point at the end of the first body paragraph but before the colon on the second page in the “Enrollment Status” section.
   6. Insert the Sierra Pacific Community College District citation.
   7. Save the document.
10. Insert a reference page and a table of contents page.
    1. Place your insertion point at the end of the document and press Enter twice. This turns off the bullet feature.
    2. Insert a Page Break.
    3. Insert a References page on the last page.
    4. Center the “References” title on the references page.
    5. Use the field handle on the references page to select all of the reference page text.
    6. Change the After paragraph spacing to 10 pt.
    7. Move your insertion point to the beginning of the document.
    8. Insert a Next Page section break.
    9. Place your insertion point on the new first blank page and apply the Normal text style.
    10. Insert the Automatic Table 2 table of contents. If a blank line displays above the table of contents, delete it.
    11. Select and center “Table of Contents”, apply bold, and change the font color to the fifth color in the last row of Theme Colors (Blue-Gray, Accent 1, Darker 50%)
11. Insert and customize the SPCCD logo picture.
    1. Place your insertion point to the left of the Section Break (Next Page) indicator below the table of contents. The table of contents should not be selected and your insertion point should not be inside the table of contents field.
    2. Insert the SPCCD-logo picture [Insert tab, Illustrations group].
    3. Use the Position drop-down list [Picture Format tab, Arrange group] and select Position in Bottom Left with Square Text Wrapping.
    4. Change the Height to 1”. The width automatically adjusts.
12. Insert the following document properties:
    Title: Financing Your College Education
    Company: Sierra Pacific Community College District
13. Insert a footer with document properties and a page number.
    1. Place your insertion point on the first page (table of contents page) and edit the footer.
    2. Insert the Title document property field at the left margin of the footer.
    3. Use the right arrow key to deselect the document property field and press Tab.
    4. Type Page and space once.
    5. Insert a Page Number in the Current Position, select the Plain Number option, and press Tab.
    6. Insert the Company document property field.
    7. Select all the text in the footer and change the font size to 10 pt.
    8. Apply a Top Border from the Borders drop-down list.
    9. Check the Different First Page check box and close the footer. The footer should not appear on the first page (table of contents page).
14. Insert and customize a hyperlink.
    1. Select “Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)” in the first sentence of the third bulleted item in the “Financial Aid Information” section on the third page.
    2. Insert a Link for the selected text to an Existing File or Web Page.
    3. Use https://fafsa.ed.gov as the Address.
    4. Type FAFSA web site as the ScreenTip text.
15. Save and close the document (Figure 3).
16. Upload and save your project file.
17. Submit project for grading.