Documents 3: Real Documents
Tables, pictures, page layout, headers and footers; a formal letter, an event poster and a programme for a school event.
⌨️ Start with your 10-minute typing warm-upBy the end, you will be able to:
- Insert a table, add rows (Tab in the last cell), and format the header row and borders; insert a picture, resize it from a corner without squashing it, and wrap text around it.
- Set margins, orientation and A4 page size, add a header, a footer and automatic page numbers, and start a new page with a page break (Ctrl + Enter).
- Lay out a formal letter in the Ghanaian school format, an event poster and a programme (order of events), and save a document as a PDF.
What you need
No computer at home? Print the PDF and practise on paper.
Follow these steps in order
Tick each step when you finish it. Your ticks are saved on this device, so you can stop and come back later.
Learn the ideas ⏱️ 35 min
Read pages 1–4 of the workbook and try every small task. Type your answers straight into the boxes: they save by themselves.
Explore the 3D lab ⏱️ 15 min
Play with the 3D model below. The 🎯 missions tell you exactly what to do next. When you finish every mission, this step ticks itself.
Do the Lab Mission ⏱️ 25 min
Page 5 is the hands-on task. Do it on a real computer, step by step. You need: Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer or Google Docs.
Check yourself ⏱️ 10 min
Answer the questions on page 6 without looking back, then check your answers below.
Finished? Check your answers
Spot the 5 Mistakes (Page 4). Accept any five of these:
- The writer's address is in the wrong place: it should be at the top right, before the salutation.
- There is no date.
- There is no recipient's address (The Headteacher, the school's address).
- The salutation is wrong: "Dear Headmaster Kofi" should be "Dear Sir/Madam," (or "Dear Mr/Mrs [surname],").
- There is no subject line (for example USE OF THE COMPUTER LAB FOR A TYPING RACE).
- The language is too casual: "hey", "pls", "!!!", and missing capital letters (Saturday, the first word of a sentence).
- The closing is wrong: "Your friend, Esi" should be "Yours faithfully," with a signature, her full name and role.
What Should You Do? (Page 6)
- A: Press Ctrl + Z, then drag a corner handle instead.
- B: Press Ctrl + Enter to insert a page break.
- C: Change the orientation to Landscape.
- D: Yours faithfully,
Written Review Questions
- The computer counts the pages for you, and the numbers update by themselves if pages are added, removed or moved. Typed numbers end up wrong and must be fixed by hand.
- A PDF looks exactly the same on every phone and computer (fonts and layout don't move), it opens without Word, and it can't easily be changed by accident.
Lab check (Page 5): the letter is A4, portrait, 1 page, with all 8 parts; the poster is landscape, 1 page, with a picture resized from the corner and Square wrap; the programme is portrait, 2 pages (cover, page break, Order of Events table with a shaded bold header row and at least 6 events), with a header on both pages and page numbers 1 and 2. All three are saved as .docx and PDF in
BIH_Practice > Notes.Rate yourself and save your work ⏱️ 5 min
Tick how confident you feel on the last page, then press 🖨 Print / Save as PDF in the workbook to keep a copy. On a shared computer, press Clear my answers when you have saved it.
🎉 Session 18 complete!
Brilliant work. Next up: Session 19: Spreadsheets, Tables & Basic Formulas.
Go to Session 19 →📰 Page Layout Studio
Lay out a real document: add a table and a picture, set margins and orientation, and add a header and footer. Follow the 🎯 missions on the right: they tell you what to do next.
Stuck? Try this
Most problems are one missed word. Look for the Panic Button or Help box in the workbook.
Refresh the page. On a very old computer it may not show 3D. The workbook still has everything you need.
Answers save on the computer you typed them on. Open the workbook on that same computer and browser.
Ask your mentor, a teacher or a friend. Show them the step number you are on.