A letter, a quotation, a CV and ten merged reminders that survive another computer

The situation

Build the documents an office actually asks for, the way an office expects them built: styles instead of manual formatting, tab stops instead of the spacebar, a table that prints cleanly, a real mail merge from a ten-row sheet, tracked changes reviewed, and a PDF that looks identical on a machine that has never seen your fonts. Every file is opened on a second computer before it counts.

What you'll be able to show

• Diagnose a badly built document with invisible characters
• Structure with styles so navigation, numbering and contents come free
• Lay out with tab stops, spacing and tables that survive edits
• Merge a letter from a spreadsheet and finish files properly

What you need

• Microsoft Word (or LibreOffice Writer with the same features)
• A spreadsheet with ten invented students for the merge
• A second computer or phone to open the finished files on

Tasks

1. 1The invisible-character audit
   Open a document you made before this course (or make a quick one-page letter). Turn on the ¶ view. Count double Enters, rows of spaces pretending to be tabs, and manually formatted headings. Fix all three kinds.
   A correct result: Three counts before, and a screenshot of the ¶ view after with none remaining.
2. 2Styles that do the work
   Take a multi-page document. Mark headings as Heading 1 and 2 properly. Show the navigation pane working, insert an automatic table of contents, change one heading's look through the style and watch every heading follow, and add automatic numbering.
   A correct result: The navigation pane, the contents, the one-change-updates-all, and the numbering shown.
3. 3The quotation that prints
   A one-page quotation for an imaginary shop: header with the business name, a customer and date line aligned with tab stops (no spacebar), an items table with only a header underline, a totals block right-aligned by tab, and a footer. Print preview it.
   A correct result: A quotation that fits one page in preview, with the ¶ view proving no spacebar alignment.
4. 4Two office documents
   Produce a formal letter you could genuinely send (to a university office, a bank, a supplier) with a subject line and correct closing, and your own CV rebuilt with styles and tab-aligned dates on a single page.
   A correct result: The letter and the one-page CV, both style-built.
5. 5Ten reminders from one sheet
   Make a sheet of ten invented students (Name, Course, Fee Due). Write a fee-reminder letter with merge fields for all three, generate the ten letters, then save the letter as a reusable template without data.
   A correct result: Ten generated letters and the saved template.
6. 6Finish and prove it
   Take the CV through the full finish: spell-check plus a read-aloud pass, two tracked changes and one comment reviewed and resolved, export to PDF, then open the PDF on a second device and confirm fonts and layout are identical.
   A correct result: The resolved review, the PDF, and a photo or screenshot of it on the second device.

What to hand in

The audited document before and after, the styled document with contents, the quotation, the letter and CV, the ten merged letters with the template, and the PDF proof from the second device.

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