Assignment $2$

User Step$-$by$-$step Instructions

You will create a simple hands$-$on $$How to$$ instruction document providing the steps to

perform one of the tasks below, including your name as content in the instructions.

Tasks $($choose only $1)$

$$ Setting the $3$D text screen saver in Windows, to activate after more than $5$ minutes. Use

your name for the text.

$$ Insert WordArt in Word, using your name as the content, and rotate the text on an

angle.

$$ Insert a call$-$out shape in Word, changing the background colour to a colour other than

the default and using your name as the content.

This is a document that could be included in a Help file. Assume the user has a need to perform

this task and wants steps that will quickly walk him or her through the task, without explanation

of why this feature is useful. A sample is provided on myCanvas in the week $4$ material. This is a

formal assignment that requires a title page.

Audience: someone who is non$-$technical but comfortable using a mouse.

User Step$-$by$-$step Instructions Document

Create a User Step$-$by$-$step Instructions document meeting the following requirements:

$$ Use the Microsoft Style Guide requirements including correct terminology for all

elements, and the Microsoft Style of writing instructions $($see page $66$ of the Style Guide

posted in the Week $4$ materials$).$

$$ Provide the steps using a numbered list, to walk through a simple task from the task list

below

$$ Include screen captures and arrows or call$-$outs for each step or each time the dialog

box or window changes.

$$ Do not include an explanation of how the task works. This is a simple set of instructions.

$$ Instruct the user to select specific items or type specific text, as an example. Do not

instruct the user to $$choose anything you want$.$

$$ use the following page set$-$up:

o $1"$ margins $($top$,$ bottom, left, right$)$

o footer containing the page number

o $12$ point font

o label each figure using a numbering system "Figure $1"$ with the figure number

and caption either above or below each image.

$$ A Step$-$by$-$step Instructions document sample is posted on myCanvas in the week $4$

material.

User Instructions

Keep in the mind the following, per the Microsoft Style Guide:

$$ Bold the names of buttons and keys.

$$ Click an icon or button

o Click the Decrease Indent button.

$$ Click is assumed to be left$-$click. Identify right$-$click separately.

o Right$-$click on the document.

$$ List items in descending order of their $$categories$$

o On the Home tab, in the Font group, click the Font box down$-$arrow $.$

$$ Press a keyboard key

o Press the Enter key on the keyboard.

$$ To see the name of a button in an application, hover the mouse pointer over the item to

reveal the ToolTip, that contains the name of the item.