Practice Activities

Prepare to Share

Before You Begin: Start Microsoft Word 2010. You should see a new, blank document.

Try This: Do the following steps

1. Copy the following text into a blank document:

    Mary had a liddle lam its fleas was white as snough

    Every wear that Mary when, the lam was sure to go

2. Use the spell check tool and correct liddle and snough

3. Use the Thesaurus to look up a synonym for go

4. Use the Thesaurus to look up an antonym for white

5. Use the Reference tool to look up the meaning of the word lam 

6. Select the word wear and use the New Comment command to add the comment “Wrong wear, should be where.”

7. Select the word Mary and add the Comment “Mary Smith.”

8. Turn on Track Changes

9. Correct the text as follows:

    Replace the word lam with lamb both times 

    Replace the word fleas with fleece

    Add a period after snow

    Replace the word wear with where

    Replace the word when with went

    Replace the word lamb

    Replace the word sure with shore

    Delete the comment “Wrong wear, should be where.”

10. Reject the change shore so that it returns to sure. Accept ALL changes in the document.

11.  Inspect the document and remove all personal information and comments from the document. Mark the document as Final.

12. Save your work as Prepare to Share Practice Activities.