SECTION 3
Lesson 3.4: Creating References to Other Documents

   

 

 

1.

Create a folder named Writing Skills Project on your desktop. Copy the Readability Index document from the Exercise Files folder into this folder.

 

 

2.

Open Microsoft Office Word 2003.

 

 

3.

Open the Advanced Writing Skills document.

 

 

4.

Ensure that the proper headings and levels are applied to each topic:

 

Topics

Heading

Advanced Writing Skills – Letters and E-mails

 Body text

Learning Objectives

 Heading 1

Workshop Outline and Methodology

 Heading 1

Pre-workshop assignment

 Heading 1

Bullets under Learning Objectives

 Heading 2

How to make your writing clear, concise, complete and correct

 Heading 2

Guidelines for Effective Business Writing

 Heading 2

Readability Index

 Heading 2

How to Write Business Letters and Memos

 Heading 2

Business letter format

 Heading 2

 

 

We’ve formatted the rest of the document for you, so we can move onto the next step.

 

 

5.

Save your document as Advanced Writing Skills into the Writing Skills Project folder on your desktop.

 

 

 

6.

Select the Learning Objectives section and click the Create Subdocument button () on the outlining toolbar.

 

 

 

7.

In the Pre-workshop Assignment section, place your cursor at the end of the Readability topic.

 

 

 

8.

Click the Insert Subdocument icon () on the Outlining toolbar.

Browse to your Writing Skills Project folder. Select the Readability Index document and click Open.

 

 

 

9.

Click the Collapse Subdocuments button () on the outlining toolbar.

Click OK if you are prompted to save your document.

 

 

10.

Drag and drop the first subdocument to below the second subdocument.

 

 

 

11.

Double-click the subdocument icon for the subdocument directly under the readability section. The document will open in a new window.

 

 

 

12.

Select the text that is numbered. Change it to bullets by clicking the appropriate icon on the formatting toolbar.

 

 

 

13.

Close out of the subdocument to return to the master document.

Save the document if you are prompted to do so.

 

 

14.

Click the Collapse Subdocuments button () again to expand our subdocuments.

Click the document icon in the first subdocument, and then hold down the Shift key to select the second one.

Click the Merge Subdocument button () on the outlining toolbar.

 

 

 

15.

Select the Learning Objectives heading and click Split Subdocument.

 

 

 

16.

Drag the Learning Objectives subdocument back up to the top of the document, under the first paragraph.

 

 

 

17.

Select the heading Style.

Click the Insert menu and click Hyperlink.

 

 

 

18.

In the Hyperlink dialog box, make sure Existing File or Web Page is selected.

Click the Browse button and browse to Style or Tone.doc.

Click OK.

 

 

 

17.

Lock the document so it can’t be edited by clicking the Lock Document icon () on the outlining toolbar.

Click Yes if you are prompted to save changes.

Switch to Print Layout view and note how all editing and formatting options are grayed out.

 

 

 

18.

Save your document as Writing Skills Project Complete and close Microsoft Office Word 2003.

 

 

19.

Open your Writing Skills Project folder on the desktop and note the files that are inside.