Keyboard Progress Chart Instructions

 

For this exercise choose “Verdana “ text, 12 point bold for the regular text and 14 point bold for the title.

 

From the Menu bar select “View” and then click on “Header and Footer.”  Type in “Name – “ and then type your own name.  Hit the ‘Tab’ key and type “Date –“ and put today’s date in the following format (9/5/02).  Make sure that both your Name and Date are on the same line.  If they aren’t then adjust your lines.  To get out of the Header mode, just double-click on the empty document space.

 

With your cursor blinking at the top of the page under the Header and the title: “Mavis Beacon Keyboard Progress.”  Remember to select it, highlight it, and change it to 14 pt. and then center it on the page.  Once it is centered, click to the right of the title and choose 12 pt. to continue.  Hit the Enter key twice to double space.

 

Next you should type in the key for the chart. 

WPM – Words Per Minute

AWPM – Adjusted Words Per Minute

% Accuracy – Percentage of Correct Words

Then hit the Enter key twice to double space.

 

The next step is to insert a Table.  Go to the Menu bar and select “Table,” then “Insert,” and select “Table…” A new box should appear called “Insert Table.”  Under the category called “Table size” there are two entry areas.  One for “number of columns:” and the one for “number of rows:”.  You should enter “5” for columns and “24” for rows in the entry areas for each.  Then click on the OK button to insert the new table.

 

You should then type in the following for each column:

Date, Title, WPM, AWPM, and %ACC

Date

Title

WPM

AWPM

%ACC

 

Move your cursor just above the top line for until you see a downward arrow.  Once the arrow appears click once to highlight the entire column.  Another method is to click inside the top cell and select Table from the Menu bar, then click on Select, then chose Column.  This will highlight the entire column.  Then click the center alignment button.  Repeat this step for all the columns.

 

Go back to the first column and click your cursor in the top first cell.  Then clicking the mouse button drag straight across to the right, which should highlight all the rows and columns.  Go to the Menu bar and select Table and then Table Properties.  A new box should appear, select the tab called Row.  Underneath the heading Size / Rows 1 –24, you should click in the box next to the words Specify height.  The box to the right has two small up and down arrow tabs.  Click on the top arrow to set the height to 0.3 and then click OK. 

 

With the first column highlighted, click on the tab called Column.  You should see Size / Columns 1-5: and a box to be checked beside Preferred width.  You may have to click inside the Preferred width box to make this active.  The box to the right has two small up and down arrow tabs.  Click the arrows to set the column width to 1.1 for Date.  You should then select Next column>> to move the highlighted area to the next column.  For the Title column set the width to 3.3, then click on Next column>> to move to the WPM column and set the width to 0.8.  The last two columns AWPM and %ACC should also be set to a width of 0.8.  After setting the last column width, click OK.

 

Now take your mouse pointer and put it outside of the top row and click.  This should highlight the entire row.  Once highlighted, select Format from the Menu bar and click on the selection called Borders and Shading…  A new window will appear with three tabbed sections.  Select the section called Shading.  This will bring up a window with different colored fills.  Select a Fill from the bottom two rows of lighter colors.  Choosing a dark color may interfere with the appearance of your text.

 

The last step is to place your mouse pointer outside of the second row and click it to highlight that row.  (This row is just below the color filled row with our section titles).  Move your mouse to the right and scroll down to the last row.  Press the “Shift” key and put your mouse pointer outside of the last row and click.  This should highlight all the rows we selected.  When this occurs your Font and point size windows appear blank.  Select the smaller point size drop down tab arrow and click on 11-point text size.  This will allow you to be able to enter more text in the table.