Exercise
7: Editing and Replacing Text
Create
a new document and type in the passage of text below. Once that
is done, follow the instructions after the text.
Working
from Home
Research has shown that going to work causes stress and even illness.
A healthy business needs healthy staff but workers are actually
being ill by factors such as traffic chaos, accidents, transport
strikes and delays.
The
average worker spends two hours a day travelling to and from their
job - an additional 25% on top of their working hours. In bad
weather conditions, journeys can be long and very unpleasant and
the dramatically rising levels of pollution have lead to an enormous
rise in the incidence of asthma. The common cold, influenza and
other virus infections spread rapidly in a stuffy working environment
and poor ventilation can cause headaches and sinus troubles.
A
report by a management consultant for a group of bosses suggest
that the solution is to allow people to work from home - 'tele-working'
is the term used to describe it. It has been shown that tele-workers
take less time off sick and do an average of 45% more work.
The
country currently loses over 400 million working days through
sickness per year.
Approximately
seven in ten bosses will try tele-working before the end of the
century as developments in information technology make links between
home and the office more sophisticated.
Electronic
mail (e-mail) is the key to tele-working. Documents can be written
and transmitted without the use of paper, messages can be seen
at any time - locations and time zones do not need to be taken
into considerations as the communication is stored on the computer
until the 'mailbox' is opened by the individual concerned.
It
is estimated that almost two million people are now working from
home in Britain. They can go into their office after rush hour
and at a time which suits them. This results in a happy and productive
workforce.
Instructions
- Save
your work as 'Working from Home'.
- Underline
and centre the heading using Arial size 14, bold.
- Make
the rest of the text Arial size 12.
- Insert
the word 'made' in the first paragraph, second line - after
the word 'being' and before the word 'ill'.
- After
paragraph four, leave twelve clear lines so that a diagram could
be inserted.
- Indent
both your right and left margins by 0.5". Justify this
paragraph.
- Double
line space the first three paragraphs.
- Cut
paragraph four and paste it so that it joins the rest of paragraph
two.
- Search
for the word 'job' and replace with 'employment' as follows:
- Go
to the Edit menu and select Replace.
- Type
in the Find What box the word 'job'.
- Type
in the Replace With box the word 'employment'.
- Click
on Replace.
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