ADJUSTING DOCUMENT

MARGINS

• OPEN MICROSOFT WORD BY FIRST CLICKING ON THE START BUTTON USUALLY LOCATED AT THE BOTTOM LEFT OF YOU DESKTOP SCREEN.

• THEN FIND MS WORD BY EITHER SEARCHING YOUR COMPUTER USING THE SEARCH BAR AT THE BOTTOM OF THE START BUTTON SCREEN FOR MS WORD, OR BY CLICKING ON THE MS WORD BUTTON THAT IS ALREADY LOCKED ONTO THE START BUTTON SCREEN.

• ONCE THE MS WORD SCREEN COMES UP OPEN A BLANK DOCUMENT.

• CHOOSE PAGE LAYOUT FROM THE TOOLBAR LOCATED AT THE TOP OF THE MICROSOFT WORD DOCUMENT.

• GO TO MARGINS AND CHOOSE CUSTOM MARGINS.

• YOU ARE GOING TO WANT TO SET THESE MARGINS TO APA STYLE GUIDELINES WHICH IS 1” ALL THE WAY AROUND. • NOTE: DO NOT MESS WITH ANY OTHER SETTINGS.

CHOOSING PAGE ORIENTATION

FOLLOW THE FIRST 5 SLIDES OF “ADJUSTING MARGINS”

CLICK ON ORIENTATION AND CHOOSE THE LANDSCAPE ORIENTATION.

ADJUSTING FONT

FOLLOW THE FIRST 4 SLIDES OF “ADJUSTING MARGINS”

• GO TO THE HOME TAB.

• SELECT YOUR FONT SIZE.• SELECT 12 PT FONT TO ABIDE BY APA GUIDELINES.

• SELECT YOUR FONT STYLE.• SELECT EITHER TIMES OR COURIER TO COINCIDE WITH APA GUIDELINES.