Before To After

Some instructors in Word look at this as an offset of English, or any language. Your instructor tends to look at word as a way of changing opinion or such. First, he understands the psysiology of our eyes which tend (really forced) to look at darkness surrounded by light. Keeping this in mind, you can direct your reader's eyes to what you want them to see. The following tutorial was based on this - a real life incident. At one time, your instructor had possession of several real estate properties. By requirement, escrow deposits were held to offset damage sustained by tenants. In one such case, a woman decided to paint each wall a different color. She was not happy when I deducted from her escrow additonal work needed to rectify this when she left her tenancy. Normally this is not a problem but the tenant, who looked like a playboy centerfold, was married to a golf pro whose course was next to my County's administrative building. County seats are centers of real estate attorney offices and it was obvious that my letter to the tenant was going to be read by some of the leading real estate lawyers in my county - all of whom would have been happy at no charge to the complaining couple to sue me. The after letter was designed to be read by the attorneys. It laid out, and I knew that their eyes would be directed to this, what I planned to do if we went to court over this and provided the backup in documentation that I had. Could you call this a power letter? Sometimes you are required to show some teeth and in this letter I think you can see that. Note, also, that I took 2.5 pages of text that is before.doc and ended up with a terse 2 pages. Try this on your own:

To start this, bring down before.doc, after.doc and purple.jpg

While this was set for Word XP, you should be able to do this similarly in Word 2007. Now, do the following

Change margins. Cheat toward right and bottom (set to .9 on both right and left)
Bold “Normal wear and tear” sentence. Same for Let’s Do The Math.
Set two styles. One style pertaining to an added spacing of 6 pts for a paragraph. The other pertaining to 10 pts bold for selected text with a leading of 10% (90% in specs). Call the styles Tricia1 and Tricia2
Add header and Footer
Manipulate point sizes. Use you name and address. Use a new style if you can. We’ll make changes later to this.
Manipulate header top margin to .3 or .4. Notice how the header affects the where the body starts
In footer add date. Determine whether date should hold or be variable
for the bold Tricia at the beginning, Set Bolding
Manipulate leading by using Tricia2
Manipulate before and after spacing by using Tricia1 – Since it sits apart, it can be manipulated.
Set Drop Caps into margin. (Nice effect but not necessary for a business letter). Drop caps usually cannot be modified by format painter and is not a possible option in style selection.
set Bullets.
Use different type
Change tabs
Set leading by using Tricia2’s characteristics through the use of the format painter
Set spacing before and after using Tricia1 at check info (lets do the math)
Highlight and Emphasize a specific paragraph starting with Finally, let me make sure
Indent
Box, Shade and Shadow
Use Leading by invoking Tricia2. Note: Since the eyes are attracted to this paragraph and the other paragraphs ignored, it acts as if it is alone and can be subject to manipulation
Set in Picture using purple.jpg.
Bias against right – right justify either in line with new margins or breaking the right margin
Set to straddle 3 paragraphs for optical effect
Set spacing before and after on paragraphs using Tricia1
Create a bookmark – burnt orange – in the text around this picture.
Change paragraph to exclude “keep lines together” and even perhaps to exclude widow orphan protection.
The following are additions to this document to enhance our study of excel
On the paragraph to the right of the picture, set he background to purple (violet is the closest we can get). Set the foreground to yellow. Notice how the system reverse paints the colors
Display the document map. Why do you think these lines have been indicated.
Can you make any changes to The check for $34.50 has been enclosed with this letter to get this into the document map?
Run the spell checker. Indicate to the right all the incorrect spellings. And by the way, what is this diagram to the right
What can you say about the grammar?
Go back to the header. Replace your name in Word art . Notice how the header accepts this.
Let’s annotate (or callout) the colors in the purple.jpg inclusion. Use the bookmark burt orange to go back to the picture. Create a callout with the text burnt orange pointing to the burnt orange wall. Set textwrap to tight. Set on a 30% angle. Fill with a purple hue.
Autosummarize this document at 25%. What can you say about Microsoft’s selection of highlights? Will this coloration print?
Insert a comment. In previous editions of word, this did not print, but notice it does here – use print preview to look at this. Where would we use comments.
Check Print Preview. If we are using WYSIWYG, why have print preview?