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Rules for typing text in Word

Lessons 4 · 1 lessons · B. Boltayev, M. Mahkamov, A. Azamatov, S. Rahmonqulova. Informatics and Information Technology Grade 6. “O‘zbekiston” publishing house, 2017
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Rules for typing text in Word

Textbook: pp. 19–23
GoalKnow the document view modes, the typing rules (spaces, hyphen, dashes, Roman numerals) and the keys for moving around a document.
New words
view mode · ko‘rinish holatihyphen (-), written without spaces · defisdash (–), written with spaces on both sides · tirenon-breaking space · qat’iy probel
Explanation

Word can show a document in several views: Print Layout (looks like paper, the usual view), Read Mode (fitted to the screen, easier on the eyes), Web Layout (like a browser page), Outline (the structure of headings) and Draft (just the text). You choose them on the View tab or in the status bar. When a word reaches the end of a line it moves to the next line by itself, but for a new paragraph you press Enter. After a punctuation mark you put a space, before it you do not. A hyphen (qovun-tarvuz, “melon-watermelon”) has no spaces; a dash (Ctrl and the minus on the number keypad) has spaces on both sides, and so does the long dash (Ctrl+Alt and that minus). Words inside brackets or quotation marks are not separated from them by spaces. A non-breaking space (Ctrl+Shift+Space) keeps a phrase like “A. Fozilov” on one line, a non-breaking hyphen (Ctrl+Shift+-) stops “5-sinf” being split, and a soft hyphen (Ctrl+-) marks where a word may be broken. Roman numerals use the letters I, V, X, L, C, D, M.

Worked examples
1950 = MCML (M = 1000, CM = 900, L = 50); 1963 = MCMLXIII (1000 + 900 + 50 + 10 + 3).
To jump to the start of the text press Ctrl+Home, to the end Ctrl+End; line start Home, line end End; next word Ctrl+→; next paragraph Ctrl+↓; one page down Page Down.
Class activity

“Dash duel”: the teacher shows sentences on screen and pupils find where a hyphen, dash or long dash is needed and correct them in Word.

Practice
1
In which view does a document normally open when Word starts?
2
Which is typed correctly: “Salom , dost !” or “Salom, dost!”?
3
Write the year 2024 in Roman numerals.
4
Why can a non-breaking hyphen be useful in “5-sinf” instead of an ordinary hyphen?