Practice: editing and formatting

Making a good document is done in stages. First you make a plan, writing down what each paragraph will be about. Then you type the text and save the document at once under a meaningful name. The third stage is editing: mistakes are corrected, extra sentences deleted and words replaced. The fourth stage is formatting: the title is emphasised, font and paragraph settings are chosen, and page colour, border and numbers added. At the end you reread and check the document, save with Ctrl+S and, if needed, make a backup copy with Save as…. Order matters: content first, decoration second, otherwise you must fix the formatting again after every edit. Recall the rules: new paragraph – Enter; end of line – End, start – Home; select all – Ctrl+A; bold – Ctrl+B. In this lesson you turn the documents from earlier lessons into finished work.