2.2 Select,
Edit
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Display, hide non-printing formatting marks like: spaces,
paragraph marks, manual line break marks, tab characters.
Select character, word, line, sentence, paragraph, entire
body text.
Edit content by entering, removing characters, words within
existing text, by over-typing to replace existing text.
Use a simple search command for a specific word, phrase.
Use a simple replace command for a specific word, phrase.
Copy, move text within a document, between open
documents.
Delete text.
Use the undo, redo command.
1. Open the document ‘Crime’ from Shared\K Craig\ECDL L2\Word
Processing software\Student Resources\ECDL Revision files\3 Word
Processing
2. Save it to Lesson 2 Folder and enter your name in the header
3. To display, hide nonprinting formatting marks
like: spaces, paragraph
marks, manual line break
marks, tab characters, Click
on this symbol in your Home
tab
3. Use the ‘find and replace’ function to find the
word ‘seet’ in the first paragraph and replace it
with ‘seat’
4. Insert a new paragraph after the first one and type the following text
‘The identity of the injured man is not yet known but, at the stage of the
investigation, he is not believed to be the owner of the Fiat’
5. Insert a space in the address 62Pinewood Close third paragraph, first
sentence
6. Fourth paragraph correct spelling of fond to found
7. Fifth paragraph, last sentence; delete the I in managled
8. Sixth paragraph, insert a space in nightof
9. Sixth paragraph, first sentence; add his between suspicious of and story
10. Save the new version of the document as ‘solved’ in lesson 2 folder
11. Delete ‘-OR DOES IT?’ from the title
12. Double click on the words ‘about himself’ in the first paragraph and
delete them
13. Text can be changed by overtyping. Select the very first sentence by
holding down <Ctrl> and clicking once inside the sentence. Type ‘An
unknown man has been found’
14. Text can also be changed by over typing using the ‘insert’ key. Go to File>
Options>Advanced, check Use the insert key to control the overtype
mode and ok. All key presses will then overtype the existing text until
the <insert> key is pressed again to turn it off
15. Put your cursor at the beginning of sentence one and over type using the
words A Woman
16. Use find and replace to change the gender of the person found
17. You can move text around the document. Select the sentence below (ctrl
and place cursor within sentence), then drag the sentence to the end of
the paragraph
18. You can use the undo and redo command to undo what you have just done,
or to redo it! Click on undo to move the sentence to its original place