ALS 3203 - Lesson 4 Formatting Text Using A Full-Featured Word Processing Application Unlike some text editors (e.g. Notepad and Wordpad), full-featured word processing applications like WordPerfect and MS-Word have almost unlimited formatting capabilities, including Fonts, inserting graphics, linking to other applications, saving and exporting files in a wide variety of formats, importing a wide variety of file formats, and changing page orientation within the same document. You will explore more of these capabilities in later lessons. For the moment, here are the important bits of information for the remainder of this exercise. Native file format refers to the format of a file created and saved in that same program (in other words, a file created and saved in WordPerfect by default is a WordPerfect file unless you save it as another type of file). Likewise, a file created and saved in MS-Word is a Word document. BUT, be careful here. DO NOT RELY ON A FILE NAME TO INDICATE THE FILE FORMAT! Remember, you may name a file anything. A file's name does not change the format of its content. Programs may "look" at the file extension to see what application to use to open it, but you may fool any application by renaming the file. You are to use the same paragraph that you used for the other part of this exercise. Simply copy it into your choice of a word processing application, just as you did into Notepad and Wordpad. Then format it according to instructions: While in your word processing application, examine the File, Save As options. That is where you would go to save the paragraph in a variety of file types (text only, RTF, and Native. You will do that later, but start exploring the menus. Be sure you give the finished file a name and extension that lets you remember what program format it is. Macintosh users may find this unusual, but it won't hurt to learn about filename extensions, and to start using them. Save the file (with the proper name) to a location where you can find it (in this case,to your ALS3203 folder). (pay attention to the path when you go to save it). Continue. Today is: