Adjusting Capitalization in Word

 

    Welcome Back! This week we will be learning about capitalization in Word. If you have ever written a document in word, you may have noticed that the default setting is usually to automatically capitalize certain letters. We're going to learn to change those settings. 

The first step is to go into Word and either open a document or start a new one. For demonstration purposes, I will be using a document that I will edit.

Below you will see the Word document before editing:

Above are the capitalized characters we need to correct.

I will show you the steps through images of how to adjust capitalization in Word.

Your next step will be to go to the File menu in Word the below image is what you should see when you click on the file.

 Above you will see where the file menu is located, below is what your screen should look like on the file menu:

Next, we will locate the options menu towards the bottom of the file menu. This is where we will edit our capitalization settings.

Above is an image of where you will locate the Options menu, below will be our next step in finding the Proofing menu:

After finding the Options and Proofing menus we will begin to adjust the settings.

While in the Proofing menu, we will click on "Capitalize first letter" as shown below.

The above image shows the default settings, below shows our edited settings.

You will click ok once the settings have been adjusted. Now you will be able to type without auto-capitalization. Although this seems like a setting that you wouldn't need it is helpful when signing certain documents. The end result should look like this:

I hope this was helpful. I will see you next week for another tutorial. Have a great week!

Adding and Removing Borders to a table in Word

     

    Welcome Back! Today we will be learning how to add and remove borders from tables in Word. 

First, you will build a table, and hopefully, if you are here, you've already learned this step.

With your table selected, you will go to your "Home" tab, which should look similar to this:

    

    We Will then highlight our table with our mouse, which should look like this:

    Once you have your table selected your table, you will continue from your "Home" tab to add and remove your borders and gridlines. Gridlines are useful while working on your borderless or open table.

Below you will see an image with gridlines and one without.

Above With gridlines, Below without.

    Our next step will be to remove borders. We will see an image of our Word document drop-downs and highlighted selections.

    You will select "no borders" from the drop-down. To add borders back in you will select a border option from the same menu. as shown below, we will insert a bottom border.

    Hopefully, after this tutorial, you have no issues building an open table and editing the border. Until next week.

Setting tabs in Word

 

        Today we will be learning how to adjust tabs in Word. 

We will be using the Modified Block letter style to demonstrate this. Adjusting the tab makes completing documents, such as the Modified Block style, possible. We will begin with a document that has the traditional tab:

In the above image, we have a word document, with a modified block style with the paragraph markings. The tab is set at its default position. The red circles indicate the position of the tab.

Now that we know what the default tab looks like we will begin editing to adjust the tab. This is useful when you are writing any type of correspondence that needs information on the right side of the page. There are 2 ways to move the tab we will start with the "ruler" method. 

First, we have to find out where our ruler is, that option as shown in the above picture can be accessed from the top toolbar and from the view tab.

Now that we know how to locate our tools let's use them!

Click on the tab marker with your mouse. This can be found circled on the left now drag it to where you want to set your tab. In this ima,ge I am setting mine to 3.25 for a Modified Block letter. After you move your tab immediately go to the line you intend to tab and hit the tab key. If you don't do it immediately you will have to move your tab all over again.

For this second method, we'll use our toolbar. We will be going to the "Layout" menu as seen below.

From the Layout Menu, we will click on the "paragraph" drop-down menu. We will go to our tabs menu circled at the bottom. Next, I will show you the image of the "tab" menu.

When you get to this menu you will set the tab at 3.25, aligned left. You can also set your default tab from here. After you have set your tab, go back into your document and hit the tab key. Your completed document should look like this:

Hopefully, this blog was informative and you learned something new. Next week we'll be working with tables in word.