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Integration Rearrange and Merge Shapes............................PPT 2-8
Changing the size and position of shapes
Module 2: Integrating Word, Excel, Edit and Duplicate Shapes..............................PPT 2-10
and Access.................................. INT 2-1 Editing points of a shape
Integrate Data Among Word, Excel, Align and Group Objects................................PPT 2-12
and Access.........................................................INT 2-2 Distributing objects
Import an Excel Worksheet into Access...........INT 2-4 Add Slide Footers............................................PPT 2-14
Copy a Word Table to Access...........................INT 2-6 Creating superscript and subscript text
Link an Access Table to Excel and Word..........INT 2-8 Set Slide Transitions and Timings..................PPT 2-16
Copy an Access Table to Word.......................INT 2-10 Inserting hyperlinks in a webpage
Opening linked files and enabling content Practice...........................................................PPT 2-18
Practice...........................................................INT 2-12
Module 3: Inserting Objects
into a Presentation..................... PPT 3-1
Powerpoint 2019 Insert a Text Box...............................................PPT 3-2
Module 1: Creating a Presentation Changing text box defaults
in PowerPoint............................. PPT 1-1 Crop and Style a Picture...................................PPT 3-4
Define Presentation Software...........................PPT 1-2 Inserting a screen recording
Using PowerPoint on a touch screen Insert a Chart....................................................PPT 3-6
Plan an Effective Presentation..........................PPT 1-4 Enter and Edit Chart Data................................PPT 3-8
Understanding copyright Adding a hyperlink to a chart
Examine the PowerPoint Window...................PPT 1-6 Insert Slides from Other Presentations..........PPT 3-10
Creating a presentation using a template Working with multiple windows
Enter Slide Text.................................................PPT 1-8 Insert a Table..................................................PPT 3-12
Inking a slide Setting permissions
Add a New Slide..............................................PPT 1-10 Insert and Format WordArt............................PPT 3-14
Viewing your presentation Animate Objects ............................................PPT 3-16
in grayscale or black and white Attaching a sound to an animation
Format Text.....................................................PPT 1-12 Insert and Edit Digital Video..........................PPT 3-18
Adding bullets to paragraphs Saving a presentation as a video
Apply a Design Theme...................................PPT 1-14 Practice...........................................................PPT 3-20
Changing theme colors
Compare Presentation Views.........................PPT 1-16 Integration
Insert and Resize a Picture..............................PPT 1-18
Check Spelling................................................PPT 1-20
Module 3: Integrating Word, Excel,
Access, and PowerPoint............. INT 3-1
Checking spelling as you type
Integrate Data among Word, Excel, Access,
Print a PowerPoint Presentation....................PPT 1-22 and PowerPoint................................................INT 3-2
Microsoft Office Online Apps Import a Word Outline into PowerPoint.........INT 3-4
Practice...........................................................PPT 1-24 Embed an Excel Worksheet
in PowerPoint...................................................INT 3-6
Module 2: Modifying a Presentation....... PPT 2-1
Link Access and Excel Objects
Convert Text to SmartArt.................................PPT 2-2
to PowerPoint ..................................................INT 3-8
Entering and printing notes
Manage Links.................................................INT 3-10
Insert and Style Shapes.....................................PPT 2-4
Practice...........................................................INT 3-12
Using the Eyedropper to match colors
Rotate and Modify Shapes................................PPT 2-6 Index........................................................ Index 1
Aligning paragraph text

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Getting to Know
Microsoft Office Versions
Cengage is proud to bring you the next edition of Microsoft Office. This
edition was designed to provide a robust learning experience that is not
dependent upon a specific version of Office.
Microsoft supports several versions of Office:
• Office 365: A cloud-based subscription service that delivers
Microsoft’s most up-to-date, feature-rich, modern productivity tools
direct to your device. There are variations of Office 365 for business,
educational, and personal use. Office 365 offers extra online storage
and cloud-connected features, as well as updates with the latest
features, fixes, and security updates.
• Office 2019: Microsoft’s “on-premises” version of the Office apps,
available for both PCs and Macs, offered as a static, one-time
purchase and outside of the subscription model.
• Office Online: A free, simplified version of Office web applications
(Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote) that facilitates creating and
editing files collaboratively.
Office 365 (the subscription model) and Office 2019 (the one-time pur-
chase model) had only slight differences between them at the time this
content was developed. Over time, Office 365’s cloud interface will con-
tinuously update, offering new application features and functions, while
Office 2019 will remain static. Therefore, your onscreen experience may
differ from what you see in this product. For example, the more advanced
features and functionalities covered in this product may not be available
in Office Online or may have updated from what you see in Office 2019.
For more information on the differences between Office 365, Office 2019,
and Office Online, please visit the Microsoft Support site.
Cengage is committed to providing high-quality learning solutions for
you to gain the knowledge and skills that will empower you throughout
your educational and professional careers.
Thank you for using our product, and we look forward to exploring the
future of Microsoft Office with you!
Getting to Know Microsoft Office Versions OFF-1

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Using SAM Projects
and Textbook Projects
SAM and MindTap are interactive online platforms designed to transform
students into Microsoft Office and Computer Concepts masters. Practice
with simulated SAM Trainings and MindTap activities and actively apply
the skills you learned live in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Access.
Become a more productive student and use these skills throughout
your career.
If your instructor assigns SAM Projects:
1. Launch your SAM Project assignment from SAM or MindTap.
2. Click the links to download your Instructions file, Start file, and
Support files (when available).
3. Open the Instructions file and follow the step-by-step instructions.
4. When you complete the project, upload your file to SAM or MindTap
for immediate feedback.
To use SAM Textbook Projects:
1. Launch your SAM Project assignment from SAM or MindTap.
2. Click the links to download your Start file and Support files
(when available).
3. Locate the module indicated in your book or eBook.
4. Read the module and complete the project.

Open the Start file you downloaded.


Save, close, and upload your completed project to receive
immediate feedback.

IMPORTANT: To receive full credit for your Textbook Project, you must
complete the activity using the Start file you downloaded from SAM
or MindTap.
Using SAM Projects and Textbook Projects SAM-1

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Word Module 1

Creating Documents
with Word
You have been hired to work at JCL Talent, Inc., a business support services
CASE
­company that provides employment and recruitment services for employers and
job seekers. Shortly after reporting to your new office, Dawn Lapointe, Director of JCL Talent –
Technical Careers division, asks you to use Word to create a memo to staff and a tip sheet for job
seekers.

Module Objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Understand word processing software • Cut and paste text
• Explore the Word window • Copy and paste text
• Start a document • Format with fonts
• Save a document • Set document margins
• Select text • Add bullets and numbering
• Format text using the Mini toolbar and • Insert a graphic
the Ribbon • Apply a theme
• View and navigate a document

Files You Will Need


IL_WD_1-1.docx Support_WD_1-4.docx
Support_WD_1-2.docx IL_WD_1-5.docx
IL_WD_1-3.docx Support_WD_1-6.docx

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Word
Module 1 Understand Word Processing
Software
Learning
Outcomes
• Identify the
­features of Word
• State the ­benefits A word processing program is a software program that includes tools for entering, editing, and for-
of using a word matting text and graphics. Microsoft Word is a powerful word processing program that allows you to
processing
program create and enhance a wide range of documents quickly and easily. FIGURE 1-1 shows the first page of
a report created using Word and illustrates some of the Word features you can use to enhance your
documents. The electronic files you create using Word are called documents. One of the benefits of
using Word is that document files can be stored on a hard disk, flash drive, or other physical storage
device, or to OneDrive or another Cloud storage place, making them easy to transport, share, and revise.
CASE Before beginning your memo, you explore the editing and formatting features available in Word.

DETAILS
You can use Word to accomplish the following tasks:
• Type and edit text
The Word editing tools make it simple to insert and delete text in a document. You can add text to the
middle of an existing paragraph; replace text with other text, undo an editing change, and correct typing;
spelling; and grammatical errors with ease.
• Copy and move text from one location to another
Using the more advanced editing features of Word, you can copy or move text from one location and insert
it in a different location in a document. You also can copy and move text between documents. This means
you don’t have to retype text that is already entered in a document.
• Format text and paragraphs with fonts, colors, and other elements
The sophisticated formatting tools in Word allow you to make the text in your documents come alive. You
can change the size, style, and color of text, add lines and shading to paragraphs, and enhance lists with
bullets and numbers. Creatively formatting text helps to highlight important ideas in your documents.
• Format and design pages
The page-formatting features in Word give you power to design attractive newsletters, create powerful
résumés, and produce documents such as research papers, business cards, brochures, and reports. You can
change paper size, organize text in columns, and control the layout of text and graphics on each page of a
document. For quick results, Word includes preformatted cover pages, pull quotes, and headers and footers,
as well as galleries of coordinated text, table, and graphic styles. If you are writing a research paper, Word
makes it easy to manage reference sources and create footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies.
• Enhance documents with tables, charts, graphics, screenshots, and videos
Using the powerful graphics tools in Word, you can spice up your documents with pictures, videos, photo-
graphs, screenshots, lines, preset quick shapes, and diagrams. You also can illustrate your documents with
tables and charts to help convey your message in a visually interesting way.
• Use Mail Merge to create form letters and mailing labels
The Word Mail Merge feature allows you to send personalized form letters to many different people. You
can also use Mail Merge to create mailing labels, directories, email messages, and other types of documents.
• Share documents securely
The security features in Word make it quick and easy to remove comments, tracked changes, and unwanted
personal information from your files before you share them with others. You can also add a password or a
digital signature to a document and convert a file to a format suitable for publishing on the web.

WD 1-2 Creating Documents with Word

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FIGURE 1-1: A report created using Word

Add
headers to Add lines
every page

Add bullets

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Insert
to lists
graphics

Format the
size and
appearance
of text

Create
charts

Create
columns
of text

Word
Create
tables
Align text in
paragraphs
evenly

Add page
numbers
in footers

Planning a document
Before you create a new document, it’s a good idea to spend and audience for your document determine the appropriate
time planning it. Identify the message you want to convey, the design. Planning the layout and design of a document involves
audience for your document, and the elements, such as tables deciding how to organize the text, selecting the fonts to use,
or charts, you want to include. You should also think about the identifying the graphics to include, and selecting the format-
tone and look of your document—are you writing a business ting elements that will enhance the message and appeal of the
letter, which should be written in a pleasant, but serious, tone document. For longer documents, such as newsletters, it can be
and have a formal appearance, or are you creating a flyer that useful to sketch the layout and design of each page before you
must be colorful, eye-catching, and fun to read? The purpose begin.

Creating Documents with Word WD 1-3

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Word
Module 1 Explore the Word Window
Learning When you start Word, the Word start screen opens. It includes a list of recently opened documents and a
Outcomes gallery of templates for creating a new document. CASE You open a blank document and examine the
• Create a blank
document elements of the Word program window.
• Open Word

STEPS
1. Start Word, then click Blank document
A blank document opens in the Word program window, as shown in FIGURE 1-2. The blinking vertical
TROUBLE line in the document window is the insertion point. It indicates where text appears as you type.
If the Ribbon is hid- 2. Move the mouse pointer around the Word program window
den, click the Ribbon
Display Options but- The mouse pointer changes shape depending on where it is in the Word program window. You use pointers
ton on the title bar, to move the insertion point or to select text to edit. TABLE 1-1 describes common pointers in Word.
then click Show Tabs
and Commands. 3. Place the mouse pointer over a button on the Ribbon
When you place the mouse pointer over a button or some other elements of the Word program window, a
ScreenTip appears. A ScreenTip is a label that identifies the name of the button or feature, briefly describes its
function, conveys any keyboard shortcut for the command, and includes a link to associated help topics, if any.
DETAILS
QUICK TIP Using FIGURE 1-2 as a guide, find the elements described below in your program window:
If your computer has
• The title bar displays the name of the document and the name of the program. Until you give a new
touchscreen capa-
bility, your Quick document a different name, its temporary name is Document1. The left side of the title bar contains the
Access toolbar will Quick Access toolbar, which includes buttons for saving a document and for undoing, redoing, and
also include a Touch/ repeating a change. The right side of the title bar contains the Ribbon Display Options button, which
Mouse Mode button.
you use to hide or show the Ribbon and tabs, the resizing buttons, and the program Close button.
QUICK TIP • The File tab provides access to Backstage view where you manage files and the information about
To display a different them. Backstage view includes commands related to working with documents, such as opening, printing,
tab, you simply click
and saving a document. The File tab also provides access to your account and to the Word Options dialog
its name on the
Ribbon. box, which is used to customize the way you use Word.
• The Ribbon contains the Word tabs. Each tab on the Ribbon includes buttons for commands related to
editing and formatting documents. The commands are organized in groups. For example, the Home tab
includes the Clipboard, Font, Paragraph, Styles, and Editing groups. The Ribbon also includes the Tell Me
what you want to do box, which you can use to find a command or access the Word Help system, the
Share button, which you can use to save a document to the Cloud, and the Comment button, which
you use to see comments.
• The document window displays the current document. You enter text and format your document in the
document window.
TROUBLE • The rulers appear in the document window in Print Layout view. The horizontal ruler displays left and
Click the View tab, right document margins as well as the tab settings and paragraph indents, if any, for the paragraph in which
then click the Ruler
the insertion point is located. The vertical ruler displays the top and bottom document margins.
check box in the
Show group to • The vertical and horizontal scroll bars are used to display different parts of the document in the docu-
display the rulers if ment window. The scroll bars include scroll boxes and scroll arrows, which you use to scroll.
they are not already • The status bar displays the page number of the current page, the total number of pages and words in the
displayed.
document, and the status of spelling and grammar checking. It also includes the view buttons, the Zoom
slider, and the Zoom level button. You can customize the status bar to display other information.
• The view buttons on the status bar allow you to display the document in Read Mode, Print Layout, or
Web Layout view. The Zoom slider and the Zoom level button provide quick ways to enlarge and
decrease the size of the document in the document window, making it easy to zoom in on a detail of a doc-
ument or to view the layout of the document as a whole.
WD 1-4 Creating Documents with Word

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FIGURE 1-2: Elements of the Word program window
Quick Access Touch/Mouse
toolbar Mode button Title bar Tell me box Share button
Comment
button
File tab

Active tab

Ribbon
Scroll box
Group
Horizontal
ruler
Vertical
Insertion scroll bar
point I-beam pointer

Document
window

Vertical
ruler Scroll
arrow
Status bar

View Zoom Zoom


buttons slider level

Word
TABLE 1-1: Common mouse pointers in Word

name pointer use to


I-beam pointer Move the insertion point in a document or to select text

Click and Type Move the insertion point to a blank area of a document in Print Layout or
pointers, including Web Layout view; double-clicking with a Click and Type pointer automatically applies the
left-align and Paragraph formatting (alignment and indentation) required to position text or a graphic
center-align at that location in the document
Selection pointer Click a button or other element of the Word program window; appears when you point to
elements of the Word program window
Right-pointing arrow Select a line or lines of text; appears when you point to the left edge of a line of text in the
pointer document window
Hand pointer Open a hyperlink; appears when you point to a hyperlink in a task pane or when you press
CTRL and point to a hyperlink in a document
Hide white space Hide the white space in the top and bottom margins of a document in Print Layout view
pointer
Show white space Show the white space in the top and bottom margins of a document in Print Layout view
pointer

Creating Documents with Word WD 1-5

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Word
Module 1 Start a Document
Learning You begin a new document by simply typing text in a blank document in the document window. Word
Outcomes uses word wrap, a feature that automatically moves the insertion point to the next line of the docu-
• Correct spelling
and grammar ment as you type. You only press ENTER when you want to start a new paragraph or insert a blank line.
• Undo actions CASE You type a quick memo to the staff.

STEPS
TROUBLE 1. Type JCL Talent, then press ENTER twice
If you press the Each time you press ENTER the insertion point moves to the start of the next line.
wrong key, press
BACKSPACE to erase 2. Type TO:, then press TAB twice
the mistake, then try Pressing TAB moves the insertion point several spaces to the right. You can use the TAB key to align the
again.
text in a memo header or to indent the first line of a paragraph.
3. Type JCL Managers, then press ENTER
The insertion point moves to the start of the next line.
QUICK TIP 4. Type: FROM: TAB TAB Dawn Lapointe ENTER
Wavy lines and other
automatic feature DATE: TAB TAB April 12, 2021 ENTER
markers appear on
screen but do not
RE: TAB TAB Creative Meeting ENTER ENTER
print. Red wavy or blue double lines may appear under the words you typed, indicating a possible spelling or
grammar error. Spelling and grammar checking is one of the many automatic features you will encounter as
you type. TABLE 1-2 describes several automatic features. You can correct any typing errors you make later.
TROUBLE 5. Type The next creative staff meeting will be held on the 18th of April at 3 p.m. in the
To reverse an Auto- conference room on the ground floor., then press SPACEBAR
Correct adjustment,
immediately click the As you type, notice that the insertion point moves automatically to the next line of the document. You
Undo button also might notice that Word automatically changed “18th” to “18th” in the memo. This feature is called
on the Quick Access AutoCorrect. AutoCorrect automatically makes typographical adjustments and detects and adjusts typ-
toolbar.
ing errors, certain misspelled words (such as “taht” for “that”), and incorrect capitalization as you type.

QUICK TIP
6. Type Heading the agenda will be the accessibility design of our new Recruitment Tips
If you want uniform webpage. The page is scheduled for September.
spacing between When you type the first few characters of “September,” the Word AutoComplete feature displays the complete
lines and para-
word in a ScreenTip. AutoComplete suggests text to insert quickly into your documents. You can ignore
graphs, apply the No
Spacing style to the AutoComplete for now. Your memo should resemble FIGURE 1-3.
document by click-
ing the No Spacing
7. Press ENTER, then type Anna Jocharz has been hired to draft content. A preliminary
button in the Styles content outline is attached. Prior to the meeting, please review the web content
group on the Home accessibility guidelines recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium.
tab before you begin
to type. Alternatively, When you press ENTER and type the new paragraph, notice that Word adds more space between the para-
select the text and graphs than it does between the lines in each paragraph. This is part of the default style for paragraphs in
then click the No Word, called the Normal style.
Spacing button.
8. Position the pointer after for (but before the space) in the last sentence of the first
paragraph, then click to move the insertion point after for
9. Press BACKSPACE three times, then type to launch in
Pressing BACKSPACE removes the character before the insertion point.
10. Move the insertion point before staff in the first sentence, then press DELETE six times
to remove the word “staff” and the space after it
Pressing DELETE removes the character after the insertion point. FIGURE 1-4 shows the revised memo.

WD 1-6 Creating Documents with Word

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FIGURE 1-3: Memo text in the document window

Memo title

Blank lines between


paragraphs

Text wraps to the next


Memo header line (yours might wrap
differently)

FIGURE 1-4: Edited memo text

Word
No Spacing style creates
­uniform space between lines
and paragraphs

Normal style leaves


more space between Text inserted in the memo
paragraphs than
between lines

Red, wavy underline


indicates a possible
spelling error

TABLE 1-2: Automatic features that appear as you type in Word

feature what appears to use


AutoComplete A ScreenTip suggesting text to insert appears as Press ENTER to insert the text suggested by the ScreenTip; con-
you type tinue typing to reject the suggestion
AutoCorrect A small blue box appears when you place the Word automatically corrects typos, minor spelling errors, and cap-
pointer over text corrected by AutoCorrect; an italization, and adds typographical symbols (such as © and ™) as
­AutoCorrect Options button appears when you you type; to reverse an AutoCorrect adjustment, click the AutoCor-
point to the blue box rect Options arrow, then click the option that will undo the action
Spelling and Grammar A red wavy line under a word indicates a possible Right-click red- or blue-underlined text to display a shortcut menu
misspelling or a repeated word; a blue double of correction options; click a correction option to accept it and
line under text indicates a possible grammar error remove the colored underline, or click Ignore to leave the text as is

Creating Documents with Word WD 1-7

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Word
Module 1 Save a Document
Learning To store a document permanently so you can open it and edit it at another time, you must save it as a
Outcome file. When you save a document you give it a name, called a filename, and indicate the location where
• Save a document
you want to store the file. Files created in Word 2019 are automatically assigned the .docx file extension
to distinguish them from files created in other software programs. You can save a document using the
Save button on the Quick Access toolbar or the Save command on the File tab. Once you have saved a
document for the first time, you should save it again every few minutes and always before printing so that
the saved file is updated to reflect your latest changes. CASE You save your memo using a descriptive
filename and the default file extension.

STEPS
1. Click the Save button on the Quick Access toolbar
The first time you save a document, the Save As screen opens. The screen displays all the places you can
save a file to, including OneDrive, your PC (identified as This PC), or a different location.
TROUBLE 2. Click Browse in the Save As screen
If you don’t see the The Save As dialog box opens, similar to FIGURE 1-5. The default filename, JCL Talent, appears in the File
extension .docx as
part of the ­filename,
name text box. The default filename is based on the first few words of the document. The default file type,
the setting in Word Document, appears in the Save as type list box. TABLE 1-3 describes the functions of some of the but-
­Windows to display tons in the Save As dialog box.
file extensions is not
active. 3. Type IL_WD_1_Memo in the File name text box
The new filename replaces the default filename. Giving your documents brief descriptive filenames makes
it easier to locate and organize them later. You do not need to type .docx when you type a new filename.
QUICK TIP 4. Navigate to the location where you store your Data Files
You can also You can navigate to a different drive or folder in several ways. For example, you can click a drive or folder
­double-click a drive
or folder in the folder in the Address bar or the navigation pane to go directly to that location. When you are finished navigating
window to change to the drive or folder where you store your Data Files, that location appears in the Address bar. Your Save As
the active location. dialog box should resemble FIGURE 1-6.
5. Click Save
The document is saved to the drive and folder you specified in the Save As dialog box, and the title bar
­displays the new filename, IL_WD_1_Memo.docx.
6. Place the insertion point before conference in the first sentence, type large, then press
SPACEBAR
You can continue to work on a document after you have saved it with a new filename.
QUICK TIP 7. Click
You also can press Your change to the memo is saved. After you save a document for the first time, you must continue to save
CTRL+S to save a
document. the changes you make to the document.

Using keyboard shortcuts


A shortcut key is a function key, such as F1, or a combination of a document instead of clicking the Save button on the Quick
keys, such as CTRL+S, that you press to perform a command. For Access toolbar or clicking Save on the File tab. Becoming skilled
example, instead of using the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands at using keyboard shortcuts can help you quickly accomplish
on the Ribbon or the Mini toolbar, you can use the keyboard many of the tasks you perform in Word. If a keyboard shortcut is
shortcuts CTRL+X to cut text, CTRL+C to copy text, and CTRL+V available for a command, then it is listed in the ScreenTip for that
to paste text. You can also press CTRL+S to save changes to command.

WD 1-8 Creating Documents with Word

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FIGURE 1-5: Save As dialog box

Active folder or drive


(yours might differ)

Default filename and file


Folders and files in extension are selected
the active folder or
drive (yours might
differ)

Click to change
the file type

FIGURE 1-6: File to be saved to the Mod 1 folder


Save location (yours
Click to create a new might differ)
folder in the active
folder or drive

Word
Your dialog box
might list the files
and folders in the
active drive or folder
here

New filename

TABLE 1-3: Save As dialog box buttons

button use to
Back Navigate back to the last location shown in the Address bar
Forward Navigate to the location that was previously shown in the Address bar
Up to Navigate to the location above the current location in the folder hierarchy
Organize Open a menu of commands related to organizing the selected file or folder, including Cut, Copy, Delete,
Rename, and Properties
New folder Create a new folder in the current folder or drive
Change your view Change the way folder and file information is shown in the folder window in the Save As dialog box; click the Change your
view button to toggle between views, or click the arrow to open a menu of view options

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Word
Module 1 Select Text
Learning Before deleting, editing, or formatting text, you must select the text. Selecting text involves clicking and
Outcomes dragging the I-beam pointer across the text to highlight it. You can also select words and paragraphs
• Select text
• Show and hide by double-clicking or triple-clicking text, or you can click or double-click in the margin to the left of text
formatting with the pointer to select whole lines or paragraphs. TABLE 1-4 describes the many ways to select text.
• Undo and redo
CASE You revise the memo by selecting text and replacing it with new text. You also remove a hyperlink
actions
• Manage hyperlinks from text.

STEPS
1. Click the Show/Hide ¶ button in the Paragraph group
Formatting marks appear in the document window. Formatting marks are special characters that
appear on your screen but do not print. Common formatting marks include the paragraph symbol (¶),
which shows the end of a paragraph—wherever you press ENTER; the dot symbol (.), which represents a
space—wherever you press SPACEBAR; and the arrow symbol ( ), which shows the location of a tab stop—­
wherever you press TAB. Working with formatting marks turned on can help you to select, edit, and format
text with precision.
QUICK TIP 2. Click before JCL Managers, then drag the pointer over the text to select it
You deselect text by The words are selected, as shown in FIGURE 1-7. For now, you can ignore the floating Mini toolbar that
clicking anywhere
in the document appears over text when you first select it.
window. 3. Type Creative Staff
The text you type replaces the selected text.
4. Double-click Dawn, type your first name, double-click Lapointe, then type your last
name
Double-clicking a word selects the entire word.
TROUBLE 5. Place the pointer in the margin to the left of the RE: line so that the pointer changes to
If you delete text , click to select the line, then type RE:, press TAB, press TAB, then type Recruitment
by mistake, imme-
diately click the Tips webpage
Undo button Clicking to the left of a line of text with the pointer selects the entire line.
on the Quick Access
toolbar to restore the 6. Select the sentence Anna Jocharz has been hired to draft content. in the second
deleted text to the paragraph, then press DELETE
document.
Selecting text and pressing DELETE removes the text from the document.
7. Click after the period at the end of the second paragraph, then type See www.w3.org
for more information.
When you press SPACEBAR after typing the web address, Word automatically formats the web address as
a hyperlink. A hyperlink is text that when clicked opens a webpage in a browser window. Text that is
­formatted as a hyperlink appears as colored, underlined text. You want to remove the hyperlink formatting.
8. Right-click www.w3.org, then click Remove Hyperlink
Removing a hyperlink removes the link, but the text remains.
QUICK TIP 9. Click , then click the Save button on the Quick Access toolbar
Always save before Formatting marks are turned off, and your changes to the memo are saved. The Show/Hide ¶ button is a
and after editing
text. toggle button, which means you can use it to turn formatting marks on and off. The edited memo is
shown in FIGURE 1-8.

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FIGURE 1-7: Text selected in the memo

Selected text

Left document
margin

FIGURE 1-8: Edited memo with replacement text

Word
Replacement text

Sentence added

Hyperlink removed

TABLE 1-4: Methods for selecting text

to select use the pointer to


Any amount of text Drag over the text
A word Double-click the word
A line of text Move the pointer to the left of the line, then click
A sentence Press and hold CTRL, then click the sentence
A paragraph Triple-click the paragraph or double-click with the pointer to the left of the paragraph
A large block of text Click at the beginning of the selection, press and hold SHIFT, then click at the end of the selection
Multiple nonconsecutive selections Select the first selection, then press and hold CTRL as you select each additional selection
An entire document Triple-click with the pointer to the left of any text; press CTRL+A; or click the Select button in the
Editing group on the Home tab, and then click Select All

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Word
Module 1 Format Text Using the Mini
Toolbar and the Ribbon
Learning
Outcomes
• Modify text
formatting
• Print a document Formatting text is a fast and fun way to improve the appearance of a document and highlight important
• Modify print information. You can easily change the font, color, size, style, and other attributes of text by selecting the
settings
• Close a document text and clicking a command on the Home tab. The Mini toolbar, which appears above text when you
first select it, also includes commonly used text and paragraph formatting commands. CASE You
enhance the appearance of the memo by formatting the text using the Mini toolbar. When you are finished, you
preview the memo for errors and then print it.
STEPS
TROUBLE 1. Select JCL Talent
If the Mini toolbar The Mini toolbar appears over the selected text, as shown in FIGURE 1-9. You click a formatting option on
disappears, right-
click the selection to the Mini toolbar to apply it to the selected text. TABLE 1-5 describes the function of the buttons on the Mini
display it again. toolbar. The buttons on the Mini toolbar are also available on the Ribbon.

QUICK TIP 2. Click the Increase Font Size button on the Mini toolbar six times, click the Bold
Click the Decrease button on the Mini toolbar, click the Italic button on the Mini toolbar, then click
Font Size button
to decrease the font
the Underline button on the Mini toolbar
size. Each time you click the Increase Font Size button the selected text is enlarged. Applying bold to the text
makes it thicker. Applying Italic to text makes it slanted. Apply an underline to text adds an underline.
3. Click the Center button in the Paragraph group on the Home tab
The selected text is centered between the left and right margins.
4. Click the Change Case button in the Font group, then click UPPERCASE
The lowercase characters in the selected text are changed to uppercase characters. You can also use the
Change Case button to change the case of selected characters from uppercase to lowercase, and vice versa.
5. Click the blank line between the RE: line and the body text, then click the Bottom Border
button in the Paragraph group
A single line border is added between the heading and the body text in the memo.
6. Save the document, click the File tab, then click Print
Information related to printing the document appears on the Print screen in Backstage view. Options for
printing the document appear on the left side of the Print screen and a preview of the document as it will
look when printed appears on the right side, as shown in FIGURE 1-10. Before you print a document, it’s a
good habit to examine it closely so you can identify and correct any problems.
7. Click the Zoom In button on the status bar five times, then proofread your
document carefully for errors
The document is enlarged in print preview. If you notice errors in your document, you need to correct them
before you print. To do this, press ESC or click the Back button in Backstage view, correct any mistakes, save
your changes, click the File tab, and then click the Print command again to be ready to print the document.
8. Click the Print button on the Print screen
A copy of the memo prints using the default print settings. To change the current printer, change the num-
ber of copies to print, select what pages of a document to print, or modify another print setting, you simply
change the appropriate setting on the Print screen before clicking the Print button.
9. Click the File tab, then click Close
The document closes, but the Word program window remains open.

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FIGURE 1-9: Mini toolbar

Center button Bottom Border


button
Bold button on
Ribbon and Mini
toolbar
Mini toolbar

Change number of FIGURE 1-10: Preview of the completed memo Preview of how
copies to print document will look
when printed
Your default Text is enlarged,
printer will differ bold, centered,
italic, and
Change the uppercase
Print command print selection

Word
Print specific Bottom border
pages added between
heading and body
Choose one- or text
Options for changing
two-sided printing
the default print Text is bold
settings
Change the collated
order of printed pages

TABLE 1-5: Buttons on the Mini toolbar

button use to button use to


Change the font of text Apply bold to text

Change the font size of text Apply italic to text

Make text larger Apply an underline to text

Make text smaller Apply colored highlighting to text

Copy the formats applied to selected text Change the color of text
to other text
Apply a style to text Apply bullets to paragraphs

Apply numbering to paragraphs

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would not stay here and moan myself to death if I were you. What do you say
to that, my friend?” said Warren, tapping his friend on the shoulder, one
summer evening as he saw how sad and lonely Paul was. Warren’s sympathetic
heart went out to his friend. It grieved him sadly to see his lonely friend, as
Paul was never seen to smile since his mother’s death.
It was nearly a year since the opening of our story. All nature was dressed in its
mantle of green when Paul decided to travel. The evening before he was to
start he sat in the library with his head in his hands thinking of the past. A
light rap sounded on the door, which brought him back to the present, and
bidding the knocker come in Pompey put his wooly head in the room and said,
“Massa berry busy? I’s like to talk wid you a little while before you goes away,
as you go so early in de morning, so I’s just come now to see you.”
“All right, Pompey, take a chair and tell me all the news.”
“I fear I has sad news for you, as you will get sad from what I’s got to tell you.
I’s lived here ever since you was a child. Well, I first lived with Missus’ fodder,
and when Missus got married I just came and lived wid her, so you see, Massa
Paul, I just knows nearly all de history of your fodder and modder. Well, I
suppose you would like to have me tell something about them?”
“Yes, Pompey, tell me all you know about them,” answered Paul, all animation
to hear something about his parents.
“Well, just before Missus died she told me there was a little tin box for you in
de garret, and I was to tell you all I knows about her.
“Your modder was a lady—a perfect lady—and your father a gentleman, and a
baronet’s son in England. Your fadder had a fust lub, and your mudder caught
him looking at a picture of a sweet face and head all curls—a pretty face it was,
too. It made Missus very angry and she wanted him to burn it up, but he
wouldn’t and they quarreled often about it. He told Missus it would not be any
harm to her if he did keep it—the original was dead. But he could not give up
the picture. Well, Missus was bound to have her way, so she stoled de picture
and burned it up, and when Massa found it out he just came to me and told
me what I told you under de tree. I told him to just stay, but he said, ‘No, no, I
never can be trampled on by a woman. We cannot lib peacefully together and I
will go and lebe her for a while.’
“I do not think he intended to stay away always. Massa Paul, you are just like
your fodder in every respect. You just look and act like him. Your fodder was a
British soldier and when he went to Boston with the regiment your mother
saw him and just fell in lub wid him ober head and ears. Well, he was a
baronet’s son and she a beautiful lady wid lots of money—as your fodder
supposed. Well, he was deceived, and Missus just let him think what he might.
I does not think your fodder lubber your mudder very much; and your mother
—beautiful and rich—he thought so—he just married her for she loved him
fondly; but she had such a temper and did not care what she said when mad.
Well, in their last quarrel she just up and told him she wished he would go
away, as she wished nebber to see his face any more, and he just up and went
away. But I always thought he would come back. Wid de money out de army
he bought dis big farm and bringed Missus to lib wid him here, and all Missus’
fodder had to gib her was me and my ole woman. Just before he left he went
and deeded de farm to Missus, free from all incumbrance, and told me to take
care of you. Dat is all I knows about your fodder.
“Your mudder neber was de same woman as before; she would not quarrel wid
anyone, and was just as docile as a lamb. If she had been so when Massa was
here he never would hab went away. I’s sure ob dat, as he cried like a great
baby when he bid me goodbye. Now, Massa Paul, let me get de ole tin box an
see what is in it. May be dar is something in it you would like to see. Come,
Massa, is you dreaming?” exclaimed Pompey, seeing Paul sitting like a statue,
gazing absent-mindedly before him into the deep shadows of the room.
“My dear man,” answered Paul, extending his hand to his servant, “I see
clearly why mother always avoided telling me anything about my father, as she
knew she had done wrong and was afraid to lose my respect, as she knew I
dearly loved her.
“Pompey,” said Paul solemnly, “she was a kind and loving mother to me.”
“Yes, Paul, I’s seed her sit and cry ober your little curly head many a time and
say, ‘I love my baby and I will never let him see my temper;’ and I guess she
never did. Shall we get de box tonight, or leave it until morning? Den you can
see to read better,” said Pompey, getting up and yawning.
“We had better get it tonight, as I do not wish to let everybody know what
there is in the box,” answered Paul, getting up and taking the candle and
opening the library door.
They went up stairs and out into a little hall leading to the garret, Pompey
leading the way.
“Gosh, Massa, I just guess there has been nobody up here in a long time, as de
cobwebs are so thick I can just cut them down. Golly, Massa, what a hole to
put treasures away in,” said Pompey, pulling the cobwebs out of his woolly
hair.
He set the light down and opened a closet on his right, and after searching a
long time he exclaimed, “Dar is noffin here in dis hole but cobwebs and dust
and mice nests”—jerking out a handful and throwing it on the floor. “I just
like to know where dat box is,” said he, taking up the light and viewing the
place critically.
Pompey exclaimed, “Paul, if your mudder has hidden anything she didn’t want
everybody to find we will find it in a little closet made purposely for it and well
covered up from prying eyes.”
He was looking carefully around and hitting a cleet which hung loose from the
wall he espied a little door in the side, which the cleet covered up entirely
unless it was struck or run against.
“I think I have found the place where it is hidden,” said Paul, opening the
door and viewing the interior.
The wall was covered with dust, and at first he did not discover anything that
looked like a box. Just as he was giving up the search he espied a little hole in
the wall, and thrusting in his hand he drew out a little box the size of a cigar
box.
“I have found it at last,” said Paul, handing it to his servant.
He knew there was something in it which would deeply affect him. He closed
up the place and they went down stairs without speaking. They went directly to
the library and Pompey set the box on the table as he said, “Golly, Massa, what
do you suppose dar is in this box that your mother took such pains to hide it?”
“I do not know,” answered Paul, “I dread to open it. Something seems to tell
me it will make me more deeply in trouble than I am now. But, Pompey, that
box must be opened,” said the young man, getting up and taking the box in his
trembling hands.
He viewed it over and saw it opened with a peculiar spring. He touched it and
the cover flew up and disclosed the contents. He drew the papers out one after
another until all lay on the table. He discovered a picture case, and opening it
the fair face of a young girl about eighteen met his view. He gazed at it a
moment and in a trembling voice said, “It is like her; the same dreamy eyes
and head. Who can it be?”
He took out the picture and in the case were the initials, M. H., and a small
tress of auburn hair. He put it back in its place of concealment as he said, “My
God, here is a mystery I cannot solve. It must be the picture Pompey
supposed burned.”
As he viewed the picture he exclaimed, “Just the same form and features. I will
keep this as my own, and if I can find her or any one it resembles I will show it
to her. I am bound to find out this mystery sooner or later, as ‘where there’s a
will there’s a way.’”
CHAPTER VII.

After placing the picture carefully in his pocket he picked up the papers one by
one and read each of them carefully. The first proved to be the marriage
certificate of his parents; the second and several others the receipts of the
interest paid on the mortgage before spoken of; the last was a letter in the
familiar handwriting of his mother. With the trembling hands he opened it. It
read thus:
“My dear son and only child: My career on earth is nearly run; I feel it
my duty to make an explanation. I sincerely hope I may find courage
to tell you all about your father and the secret mortgage, but if
anything should happen this note will be found and explain my
strange conduct. This mortgage was given when you were small. I
have tried to pay it but could not get enough money ahead, as it took
so much money to pay doctor bills and hired help. I gave the
mortgage to save my father from prison. He promised to pay it, but
never did, and I have only managed to pay the interest on it. The face
of the mortgage is three thousand dollars. I did not care to let
everyone know there was a shadow over your birthplace, so I have
kept it a profound secret. The mortgagee and our old servants are the
only beings who know of it. My dear son, I have taught you to be a
good farmer, and I pray to God you may be able to raise the
mortgage when it becomes due. It was given for twenty years at ten
per cent. interest. I would have told you before now, and perhaps we
could have paid it. But I could not; I have always told you it was free
from debt and I deeded it to you as the same. God forgive my
weakness! I was born a deceptive child and I have lived a deceitful life
the last twenty-five years. I loved your father, as noble and kind a
husband as ever lived. I deceived him cruelly, and after our marriage I
quarreled with him about a picture he had, and finally to torment him
I told him I had burned it. It made him very angry. One day he went
to the village and I never saw him any more. My child, I feel as if he is
alive and if you ever meet him give him the picture and ask him to
forgive me. Tell him I died loving him and our child, he who has
never seen me out of temper. My son you will never see these lines
until I am clasped in death’s repose. I have erred, but I must die. As
God forgives his erring creatures I pray of you to forgive me.”
Your affectionate mother.

As Paul folded up the letter tears were falling on the table, and he exclaimed
aloud. “My mother, Oh, my mother! if I had only known your trouble I could
have made it lighter for you to bear. I freely forgive you in all. Who would not
forgive a mother’s errors?—she who has borne many trials for us while
young.”
“Massa,” exclaimed Pompey, breaking in on Paul’s murmurings, “you is just
like your fadder; he would have forgiven her if she would have done what was
fair by him after they were married. You see she liked to torment him, and she
did, once too often. Well, Paul, is you going away tomorrow now?” asked the
negro, looking fondly at his young master.
“Yes, Pompey, I am going if nothing happens to prevent me, as I have a great
mystery to solve and I cannot do it if I stay here.”
“Why Massa, de ’riginal ob dat picture is dead; Massa told Missus so; I heard
him tell her.”
“My man, there is a mystery about it and I must find it out!” exclaimed the
young man in a decisive tone.
He placed the papers carefully back and handed the box to his servant, saying,
“Keep this carefully, Pompey, as by and by the papers will be of great
importance to me.”
“I will do as you tells me,” answered the servant, taking the box from his
young master’s hand.
Many injunctions were given for the future, then each one returned to his
respective chamber, but not to sleep, as Pompey was thinking of his young
master, who was going away early the next morning and would not tell him
where he was going or when he should hear from him.
“Poor soul, I’s afraid he will neber come back. Oh, how I lub dat boy. May de
good Lawd watch ober him and keep him from bad company!”
Thus the negro mused until daylight dawned.
Paul threw himself on the bed but could not sleep. He was deeply troubled as
he lay thinking of his mother’s troubles, the mortgage, and lastly of his journey
on the morrow, and as morning dawned he had made up his mind where he
should go.
“I do not care; I will take the stage for New York and trust to Providence for
the rest.”
Thus he pondered until the servant’s bell rang.
He hastily dressed and went down stairs. As he made his appearance earlier
than usual Pompey said, “Guess you did not rest bery well, Massa?”
“No,” answered Paul, “I did not. Please hurry breakfast, as I have a long ride
this morning, Pompey, and should be on the road.” Soon breakfast was ready,
and after eating Paul bade his servants goodbye and started for the village.
Soon the same stage that bore Nettie on her homeward journey bore the sad,
broken-hearted young man from his once happy home. One desire caused him
to travel. Perhaps he would be able to find a person who resembled the picture
he had closely hidden in his pocket, or, find his lost love.
It was a year since Nettie returned home. Time drearily passed by and brought
momentarily each day the same longing thought: “Where is Paul?” She had
read of Paul’s mother’s death in the village paper and it deeply grieved her to
hear that he was all alone with no relative to bear the sorrow with him—no
one to console him in this trial. Warren had written her a letter, stating Paul
had started to the city.
She murmured as she sat in the little arbor by her home, “Oh, God, why did I
leave him as I did; he is alone, all alone; no kindred friends to comfort him;
Oh, why did I leave him?”
She was weeping piteously when a hand was laid on her head, and the owner
said, “Found at last, my own. Were you weeping for me?” asked the manly
voice by her side.
Nettie looked up in the manly face as she answered, “Forgive me, love, for
doubting you.”
She was overcome with joy, and fell fainting at his feet. He picked her up and
bore her into the cottage.
As he laid her down on the lounge he called, and Nettie’s mother came to her
side. As she returned to consciousness Paul stood motionless, gazing at the
mother and daughter.
“Can it be!” he exclaimed aloud.
“Can it be what?” asked the mother, looking up at the young man for the first
time, as she had been busily applying restoratives to her child and had
forgotten everything else, whom she had never seen in this condition before.
She noticed how thin and pale Nettie had grown lately, and it grieved her
deeply.
When she looked at the stranger she turned as white as her daughter and sank
on the floor by the side of the lounge.
“Sir, why did you come here? What have I done to be persecuted in this way,”
she asked.
She was gazing wildly at him, and it troubled him very much.
“My dear madam, you are laboring under a great mistake, as there is a mystery
here we must try to solve,” said the young man, taking the picture out of his
pocket and handing it to her saying, “Madam, did you ever see this?”
She took it with trembling hands and opened it and exclaimed passionately,
“Sir, where did you get this?”
“It was left in a little tin box for me by my mother,” answered Paul.
“How came she to have it? It was my picture I gave to a young man many
years ago. It is the same one, as here is the lock of hair and the initials of my
maiden name,” said the lady as she sat gazing at it earnestly and deeply
thinking.
It brought back memories of the past.
“How happy I was when I gave the picture to him; no shadow obscured the
fair horizon of my life; but time will change all things; babes will grow to be
men and women, and soon will grow to old age if God spares them to this
world of sorrow. I for one have borne many trials. Whenever cast down, the
thought will ever arise, ‘God doeth all things well.’ How strange it is that a
stranger should have a picture given to a friend twenty-five years ago,” said the
lady in meditation.
“Madam, it is strange, very strange indeed. It is a mystery. My father supposed
you dead and in time married my mother. Yet one of my servants told me my
father loved the picture so much that when he was told it was burned up he
went away and never has been heard of since. He left home when I was a babe
on my mother’s breast. I am going to find him if he is alive,” said the young
man vehemently.
“I must find him if he is in the land of the living.”
He bent over the couch where Nettie lay listening to her mother’s and lover’s
passionate words and she said, “My little love, your mother thinks she had
been deceived by my poor father, and now his son is trying to deceive her only
child. I am going away, and when I find my father or hear something definite
about him then I will return. All I ask is to prove faithful to me until I return.”
He pressed a kiss on her fair brow as he said, “God bless and keep you both
until I return.”
In a moment the door closed on the manly form of Paul Burton.
He went directly to the hotel where he was stopping and packing his little
wardrobe prepared to travel.
He thought of going to England but decided he would first go to the pleasure
seekers’ sea-side resorts.
Days and weeks went slowly by to the ones left in the cottage. At last it was
nearly Christmas; the inmates were looking out of the window at the people
hurrying along the thoroughfare. Presently the mother said, “Nettie, I wonder
if anyone thinks enough of us to give us something. Our little money is nearly
gone and what we have we cannot spare for niceties as it is all we have to keep
the wolf from the door.”
“God will provide for us,” answered Nettie.
“I wonder where Paul is today. It is a long time since he went away. Oh, if he
would only come back to us it would be all the pleasure I would ask. I care not
for presents. Oh, why does he not come!” exclaimed Nettie, looking wistfully
at her mother while the tears were springing to her eyes.
“My child, God grant that he may come back and bring good news. We can
only wait, watch, and pray,” answered the mother sorrowfully.
A few days after the above conversation they were looking out on the busy
people along the way. Many happy faces were to be seen. It was the long-
looked-for, happy day among the little children. One little one was standing in
the street viewing the shop windows when a runaway horse came dashing
along, and before she could have gotten out of the way a middle aged man
came running out of a shop near and caught her up in his arms, not soon
enough, however, to clear the danger as they were thrown down violently on
the sidewalk.
Mrs. Spaulding was the first to lend a helping hand, as it was just before her
door. Soon she bore the little inanimate form of the child into her own cottage
and laid her on lounge, where Nettie once lay, and began applying restoratives.
Soon she had the pleasure of seeing her open her bright blue eyes and feebly
ask for ‘mama.’
CHAPTER VIII.

“My dear little one, your mama will soon be here, as I have sent Nettie out to
see if she can find any one claiming you.”
Soon Nettie came with the parents of the child. How thankful they were to
find her not seriously hurt. The doctor said there was no bone broken, only
bruises, and she would be well soon. Many were the presents lavished upon
Mrs. Spaulding and Nettie.
The gentleman was bruised very badly. The first question he asked the
bystanders was, “Who is that lady who took the little one in the cottage.”
“It is Mrs. Spaulding, a widowed lady,” answered several people.
“How is the child? I tried to save the little one from harm, but I fear I have
not.”
A young man came up to where the people were huddled together, and seeing
the stranger sitting on the sidewalk he said, “What is the matter here?”
“A little girl came near getting killed by a runaway horse, and this gentleman
was badly hurt trying to save her,” answered one.
The young man came to him and extending his hand said, “Sir, please let me
help you up. You can bear on my arm, and I will help you to a place where you
can rest.”
The stranger was gazing earnestly at the young man, as he said, “Kind sir, pray
what is your name? Do not think me impertinent; you resemble a person I
know.”
“Paul Burton, of Pine Island,” modestly answered the young man.
“Pray, sir, what is your age?”
“Twenty-four my last birthday.”
“My son, my son, my babe I cruelly deserted years ago!”
Paul looked at the stranger critically as he said, “Is this my father who left me
in my faithful old servant’s arms, and cruelly deserted my mother and left her
broken hearted?”
“My son, I have done wrong, I admit, but my wife told me to go; she did not
wish ever to see me again. She burned a picture I had, and we quarreled like
many other hot headed people have done, and she told me to go, and I did. I
was very angry then, as my English temper had risen; but, my son, I am going
home to ask forgiveness, and be reconciled to her,” said the father, while his
tears were falling silently.
“My mother is dead: she died last spring. She gave me this to give to you if I
should ever see you,” handing him the picture, before refused him.
With trembling hand he took it. As his son gave him the letter in which Paul’s
mother said, “Tell him I died loving him and our child—he who never saw me
out of temper,” the father buried his head in his hands and wept like an infant.
“Oh, why did I let my temper get the better of me? My son I have done
wrong. I have wronged her and you. God forgive! I intended to return before
now. I went back to England. My father was sick and wished for me to stay
with him until he died. My mother was a frail woman, and I stayed till she was
placed beside my father. Then I started to come back. The merchant ship I set
sail in was taken by a pirate vessel, and I was left on an island with several
other people whom they did not wish to murder in cold blood, and I only
returned to England about a year ago. I thought of you and your mother many
and many a night and prayed to God to spare your lives until I returned home.
My son, can you forgive your poor wretch of a father, for I am your father by
the laws of nature?”
Paul wept violently. As soon as he could command his voice he said, “My dear
father. I forgive you, and you shall go with me to our faithful old servants and
to our sad home; sad indeed has that home been to me since mother died.”
“Thanks, my son, for your kindness. May God deal gently with you.”
They were walking slowly along, as the father was weak and could not have
walked without the aid of something to lean on. It was beautiful indeed to see
the father leaning on and protected by the manly arm of his son, whom he
deserted in childhood. Forgiveness is a blessing we all can bestow on our
fellow beings. As God forgives us we should in return forgive our friends and
neighbors. Soon they reached the hotel where Paul was staying. He had
returned from his tour the day before and until now was ignorant of his
father’s whereabouts. Before he started to England he desired to visit his lady
love, and was on his way there when he found his father. After seeing his
father well cared for he prepared to go on the street again.
As he went to his father’s side he said, “Have you looked at the picture yet?”
“No, my son, I do not care to. The original of that picture has long been dead,
and why should I care to draw back sad memories of the past?”
“Father,” said Paul, solemnly, “the grave may give up its dead: or, in other
words, she may be living. Are you positive she is dead?”
“My son, the ship she sailed in was wrecked, and none of her crew ever was
heard from, and of course she went to the bottom of the deep blue sea with
them,” answered the father sadly.
“You may be mistaken in the ship she sailed in. How did you find out what
ship she went in?”
“By my father, when I returned from the war. No, my son, there is no
happiness for me on earth but to live near my child,” answered the father
piteously.
“Cheer up, father. I have good news. If you were able to walk back the place of
that accident we would be able to solve this great deliverance satisfactorily. I
was going to the cottage where the child was taken, when I found you,” said
Paul, buttoning up his overcoat.
“My son, if you will order a horse and cutter I will go with you, as I am deeply
interested in what you have been telling me,” answered the father, getting up
off the couch.
He could scarcely stand without the aid of something, but it being Christmas
day he wished to give something to the poor children he saw gazing in at the
shop windows, and thus it was that he came to be near enough to save one
little one from death.
Soon his son came with a horse and cutter, and helping his father in, they went
down the street where they first met, three hours before. Soon the cottage
door was reached. Paul kindly helped his father out of the cutter, and told the
driver to call for them in an hour.
They hurried up the steps to the cottage door, and tapping lightly, Nettie bid
them come in. Mrs. Spaulding was in the parlor where the child and her
parents were, and as soon as Nettie saw who the newcomers were she ran
lightly to her mother as she said:
“Mother, there is a gentleman in the sitting room anxious to see you.”
Mrs. Spaulding came in, and Paul said, “Mrs. Spaulding, this is my father. We
have called to see how the little girl is getting along.”
Mr. Burton, senior, came to the lady and said, “Minnie, is this you, who I
thought dead so many years? My son has given me a happy surprise this
Christmas day.”
Mrs. Spaulding stood as one in a trance. Finally she said, “Sir, how came you to
think I was dead?” She spoke sorrowfully.
“Dear lady, or my dear Minnie, (if I may call you so as of old) when I came
home from the army my father told me you had sailed in the vessel that sank
off the coast of S——, and as none of the crew lived to tell the sad tale, I
supposed you suffered the same fate, as I could not get any trace of you in
Liverpool.”
“No,” answered the lady, “your father was mistaken in the ship, as we landed
safe, and I am among the living, as you see.”
As she extended her hand he grasped it and pressed it to his lips and said,
“Mrs. Spaulding, my first and only love, forget the past and let us be friends as
of old. My son has doubtless told you of my past life—how I left his mother
when he was a babe and I have been a wanderer from my home ever since. I
am very sorry. My past conduct does not deserve any kindness from my noble
son. He tells me my wife died loving me, who does not deserve the love of any
one. I married her because she loved me and I supposed her rich; and thinking
you dead, desired to try to be happy with her; but it was not to be. She saw
your picture, and it made her angry to think I had loved one before her. She
wanted me to burn it. We had a few words about it, and she told me to go and
never let her see my face again. I went away. I was going home now to ask her
forgiveness when I met my son, he who I left in my old servant Pompey’s
arms. As God is my witness, what I tell you is the truth. Will you forgive me,
Minnie, and let the past be forgotten?” said Mr. Burton, taking the hand of the
lady and looking fondly in her face.
“Paul, can it be that after twenty-five years we are to meet in the presence of
our children?” said the lady, sinking on the breast of her old lover.
“Mother and father,” said both the young people, advancing towards them
from the parlor, “give us your blessing, and God grant we may all be happy
together this ever-to-be-remembered Christmas.”
“What say you, my love,” asked the senior Paul Burton. “God bless you, my
children! May the blessing of God ever fall on your pathway and strew it with
flowers,” said the father, placing Nettie’s hand in that of his son. “And if your
mother will be my wife we will begin our lives anew.”
“One week from today; what say you, Minnie?” said the gentleman.
A letter was written then and two days before New Year’s they started for that
place, and when it became known at the house of Paul that he was going to
bring a wife home, and had found his father, what a hustle-bustle there was
among the servants to make everything look its best. Pompey said, “Paul is
coming home wid his fadder and wife, and day shall see what a good ole man
and woman Paul left to see to things. Golly, I’s in hopes she’ll be a better wife
to him than his mudder was to his fadder.”
They did not know yet that the father was going to fetch a wife with him, as
that part was kept a secret, yet all the people about knew that Paul was coming
home with a wife and that he had found his father, who they all supposed
dead.
All was made ready at the farm house for the wedding. Just as the sun was
going down New Year’s evening the two couples came. Many kind greetings,
were exchanged between the parties, and Paul’s father was kindly received by
all.
Soon the minister came, and Paul and Nettie were made one, and the minister
was closing the book when Paul, senior, said, “One more couple is waiting to
be united.”
All eyes were turned to see who they could be, when he went to Mrs.
Spaulding and extending his arm they went before the minister and were
united. Only one person there had an idea who the second couple could be,
and that was John Hilton. He recognized Paul Burton, senior, but did not
mention it, as he did not wish his sister to know his thoughts. Happy were all
the friends on that New Year’s day.
The next morning the newly married couples went over to their home, where
Paul Burton, junior, called his servants together and told them they had a new
mistress, and he wished them to obey her and also his father’s wife. They all
seemed delighted.
Paul, senior, stayed until spring, then he took his wife over to England to live
there on the estate left him by his father.

Some ten years later we enter the home of Paul Burton, Jr. Two little curly-
headed boys are playing on the floor, and the mother, a frail, sickly little being,
was sitting in the arm chair where Paul’s mother used to sit. Traces of tears
were on her pale cheeks, when a familiar voice said, “Cousin Nettie, why have
you been weeping?”
“Oh, Warren, I suppose our house is to be sold if we can not raise the balance
of the mortgage. The mortgagee is a cold stern man, and will not give Paul
one day’s time on it, or part of it even. There is only five hundred back. I don’t
see how we can get it in five days. Oh, if I could only sell my manuscripts and
raise that amount, what a happy surprise I could give my noble husband,” said
Nettie, lowering her head on her hands and weeping violently.
“Nettie, let me see the manuscripts and perhaps I can dispose of them for
you,” said her cousin.
She went to a secret drawer and brought him the writings.
He read them through and told her he was going to the city and he would see
what he could get for them, promising her he would be back in four days’ time
to pay the mortgage. She made him promise not to let Paul know anything
about it.
“I have written them unknown to him, and when I could not do anything
else,” she explained.
Warren took the papers, and the same evening started for the city.
After Warren had gone Paul came home. He had been out to see if he could
raise the money. He was down hearted. He sat down by Nettie’s side as he
said. “In four days, we’re homeless if I cannot raise the money. If I only had
time to get it from over the water—but I cannot get it anywhere. Oh, Nettie,
what will we do? I have worked hard to pay this old debt, but it is impossible
for me to get that amount of any one, as I have sold everything we can spare
and the mortgagee will not release it so I can give another mortgage on it to
get the balance. Oh, dear, what shall we do?”
“Trust in God. He will not see us suffer,” answered his trusting little wife, as
she put her arms around his neck and kissed his fair brow. “God doeth all
things well.”
Time flew drearily away. Four days were gone; the fifth came bright and clear.
The mortgagee had come for his pay, and the five hundred remained unpaid.
With sad and sorrowful hearts the husband and wife sat, when a man drove up
to the door and handed the wife a package. She tore it open, and out rolled
eight hundred dollars. She handed it to her husband as she said, “A friend in
need is a friend indeed.”
“My dear, how did you come to get such an amount of money?” asked her
husband, while the tears stood in his eyes.
“My dear,” answered his wife, “I have earned it, when I was not able to do
anything else, with my pen, and by God’s help I have been able to help you a
little while you were doing all you could.”
“God bless you, my noble little wife.”
The mortgage was paid, and one little home was made happy; and a happy
surprise it was to this noble young farmer to think he had a lovely little
helpmate.

The End.
Transcriber’s Notes
The Table of Contents for this eBook was created by the transcriber for the reader's
convenience.

Except for the places noted below, spelling and grammar has been retained from the
original text

Pg. 5 - Corrected typo: Missing space inserted: “Warren,the eldest”

Pg. 5 - Corrected typo: ‘.’ > ‘,’: “pleasure it afforded. except”

Pg. 5 - Corrected typo: Missing ‘s’: “her cousin were”

Pg. 5 - Corrected typo: ‘boquet’ > ‘bouquet’

Pg. 5 - Corrected typo: “Her cousin. Nettie” > “Her cousin, Nettie”

Pg. 6 - Changed ‘surprized’ > ‘surprised’ to match rest of text

Pg. 7 - Corrected typo: ‘boquet’ > ‘bouquet’

Pg. 8 - Corrected typo: ‘your’ > ‘young’: “What a handsome your man”

Pg. 9 - Corrected typo: ‘for’ > ‘far’: “wandered for out”

Pg. 9 - Corrected typo: ‘.’ > ‘?’: “great act of kindness.”

Pg. 11 - Added missing close quote at chapter end

Pg. 12 - Removed extra comma: “Why, does mother not tell me”

Pg. 13 - Missing ‘.’ inserted at paragraph end: “this little lady”

Pg. 13 - Corrected typo: “resolved never to do” > “resolved ever to do”

Pg. 14 - Corrected typo: “The depth of love I owe” > “The debt of love I owe”

Pg. 15 - Corrected typo: ‘.’ > ‘,’: “in the street. springing”

Pg. 16 - Changed Tis > ’Tis to match rest of text

Pg. 17 - Corrected typo: ‘boquets’ > ‘bouquets’

Pg. 17 - Corrected typo: ‘boquet’ > ‘bouquet’

Pg. 19 - ‘?’ moved inside quote: “where is cousin”?


Pg. 20 - Corrected typo: ‘.’ > ‘,’: “No. no, I can not”

Pg. 20 - Corrected typo: single quote to double: “since Monday?’”

Pg. 21 - Removed extraneous single quote: “‘As he spoke he”

Pg. 22 - Removed extraneous opening quote: ““Warren saw he was”

Pg. 22 - Missing double quote inserted at paragraph end: “packing your trunk.”

Pg. 30 - Corrected typo: ‘then’ > ‘than’: “sooner then”

Pg. 31 - Changed double quotes to single: ““no” for an answer”

Pg. 32 - Removed extraneous opening quote: ““Nettie was speaking”

Pg. 33 - Corrected typo: ‘sustaine’ > ‘sustain’

Pg. 33 - Added missing ‘.’: “in this country”

Pg. 33 - Removed extraneous closing quote: “from the story.”

Pg. 34 - Corrected typo: ‘farwell’ > ‘farewell’

Pg. 35 - Corrected typo: ‘abscence’ > ‘absence’

Pg. 35 - Added missing opening quote: “The young man”

Pg. 35 - Corrected typo: “here in America” > “here to America”

Pg. 41 - Removed extraneous closing quote: “about her.””

Pg. 41 - Changed nested quote marks to single: ““No, no, I never ... for a while.””

Pg. 42 - Removed extraneous closing quote: “dearly loved her.””

Pg. 43 - Missing closing quote added at paragraph end: “from prying eyes.”

Pg. 45 - Corrected typo: ‘sincerly’ > ‘sincerely’

Pg. 46 - Added missing comma: “to his servant, saying “Keep”

Pg. 46 - Corrected typo: ‘bourne’ > ‘borne’

Pg. 47 - Corrected typo: ‘drearly’ > ‘drearily’

Pg. 49 - Corrected typo: ‘friends’ > ‘friend’: “to a friends”

Pg. 49 - Corrected typo: ‘passonate’ > ‘passionate’


Pg. 50 - Corrected typo: ‘hr’ > ‘her’

Pg. 51 - Changed single quote to double to match end: “‘Who is that lady”

Pg. 52 - Added missing ‘.’: “see me again She burned”

Pg. 53 - Missing closing quote added at paragraph end: “of the past?”

Pg. 55 - Added missing opening quote: “And if your mother”

Pg. 56 - Corrected typo: ‘ond’ > ‘and’

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