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Just 2 Easy Tutorials Setting Up a Screen
In this Tutor Sheet, we are setting out a screen in portrait just like a page of A4.
Skills Box
After this exercise, you should be able to:
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Select Portrait
Choose font and colour and size
Set blocks of text into different positions
Save your work in a new folder
2 Now we choose the font or the type of text we want.
After this exercise, you should be able to:
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Select Portrait
Choose font and colour and size
Set blocks of text into different positions
Save your work in a new folder
2 Now we choose the font or the type of text we want.
1 First, we will colour the background so that the page will be easier to read on the white screen.
Check that A4 is in the box. There are other sizes
available but this is the 'normal' one
Click and grey the portrait selection
Click on the colour bar down the size for the colour.
Once you click, you will see another bar below with
the colour graded from white to black.
Look at the little colour squares at the bottom. These
are the colours you chose. Click to use them again.
available but this is the 'normal' one
Click and grey the portrait selection
Click on the colour bar down the size for the colour.
Once you click, you will see another bar below with
the colour graded from white to black.
Look at the little colour squares at the bottom. These
are the colours you chose. Click to use them again.
Try the different options and then return to the original choices.
1 First, we
3 Click on the drop down arrow to select the text size.
You can also make these changes after the typing
by selecting the box and then clicking on the
appropriate options.
You can also make these changes after the typing
by selecting the box and then clicking on the
appropriate options.
4 Colour of text can be selected on the colour bars
down the side.
The top bar grades text from black to white and the
bottom grades the selected colour form the middle
bar from white to black.
Make a small rectangle on a J2E page and try to
match the exact colour we chose for this page.
down the side.
The top bar grades text from black to white and the
bottom grades the selected colour form the middle
bar from white to black.
Make a small rectangle on a J2E page and try to
match the exact colour we chose for this page.
5 We can write
text in columns too
as in a newspaper o
5 We can write text into columns like a newspaper.
Sometimes, this makes the text
Sometimes, this makes the text
easier to read. Type the text as you would normally and then select the blue box over it. Now try
the various options from columns 1 to 4.
This text has been set to go into four columns.
This text has been set to go into four columns.
You will find as you type that the columns grow and sort themselves out automatically.
6 Changing the width of the box to fit that space you is done with a right click on the selected box, left click on the 'details' tab and then change the figure in the 'width' box, followed by 'enter'.
7 Saving your work
Make the effort to do this regularly in case of any connection problems.
Click on the Save icon, and enter the correct name for your work in the box and make sure the HTML box at the bottom is ticked.
Note the 'Do not close your browser' notice
You now have two options to see your work in HTML
View - this shows the page as others will see it
Save and View - this is the same but saves first so make sure the name is correct
Right click and 'End Edit'. This is a quick pre-save option to view in HTML. Click on the Edit to go back.
Make the effort to do this regularly in case of any connection problems.
Click on the Save icon, and enter the correct name for your work in the box and make sure the HTML box at the bottom is ticked.
Note the 'Do not close your browser' notice
You now have two options to see your work in HTML
View - this shows the page as others will see it
Save and View - this is the same but saves first so make sure the name is correct
Right click and 'End Edit'. This is a quick pre-save option to view in HTML. Click on the Edit to go back.
Example Page
