Typing Practice_Word

Task 2 – Typing practice

If you are new to word processing, you will probably benefit from some typing practice and need to do this entire task. Otherwise you can move on to section 4 (Editing a document).

1.      Enter the following text in a new document:

Jeremy Bentham

The philosopher and jurist Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was born at Houndsditch, London, on 15th February 1748. He proved to be something of a child prodigy: while still a toddler he was discovered sitting at his father’s desk reading a multi-volume history of England, and he began to study Latin at the age of three. At twelve, he was sent to Queen’s College Oxford, his father, a prosperous attorney, having decided that Jeremy would follow him into the law, and feeling quite sure that his brilliant son would one day be Lord Chancellor of England.

Bentham, however, soon became disillusioned with the law, especially after hearing the lectures of the leading authority of the day, Sir William Blackstone (1723-80). Instead of practising the law, he decided to write about it, and he spent his life criticising the existing law and suggesting ways for its improvement. His father’s death in 1792 left him financially independent, and for nearly forty years he lived quietly in Westminster, producing between ten and twenty sheets of manuscript a day, even when he was in his eighties.

2.      Save the file with the name jeremy.doc on the R: drive in the training.dir\word\getting-started folder.

3.      Close the file.