Your school's president asks you to research information about tuition rates at other universities. He asks you to find out the tuition rates and cost of living expenses at Boston University and The University of Florida. You need to find the specified figures for these schools, and then prepare a memo to give to the president. You will use the Internet to find the rates. Then you will use Word to prepare a brief memo that explains your findings, using a table to organize the information you located.
Click the links to Boston University
and The University of Florida
, and then search for information about undergraduate tuition and living expenses, including books/supplies housing, and meal costs. Print the pages with this information, and then close your Web browser.
Start Word and then check your screen to make sure your settings match those in the tutorials.
Click File on the menu bar, and then click New. The New dialog box opens. Click the Memos tab, and then double-click the Contemporary Memo icon to open a new document based on the Contemporary Memo template.
Enter the appropriate information in the memo placeholders so that the memo is written to the president, from you, with a "CC" to your instructor. The subject of the memo is "Tuition Increase."
Type a short paragraph explaining that you have just started your research, and the table on the next page indicates undergraduate tuition and living expenses for Boston University and The University of Florida. Delete any extra placeholder text as needed.
Insert a page break after the paragraph.
On page two, create a table with three columns and five rows. The first cell in the first column should be blank; the second cell should contain "The University of Florida" and the third cell should contain "Boston University". The headings for rows two, three, and four are "Tuition," "Books/Supplies," "Housing," and "Meals," respectively. Bold all the column and row headings.
Enter the rates into the table using the data you found on the Web. Use the non-Florida costs for the University of Florida data. If no data is available for a specific cost at one of the universities, enter "N/A" in the cell.
Create a sixth row in the table. Enter "Totals" as the label and then use the AutoSum button on the Tables and Borders toolbar to insert a formula into the other two cells to total the tuition for each school. Edit the formulas so the totals show only whole dollars.
Format the heading row with san serif text and gray shading. Enlarge the heading row to a half inch and then center the column headings horizontally and vertically.
Adjust the column widths to eliminate any excess white space. Then adjust the height of rows 2 through 6 to .25 inch.
Align the dollar amounts center right, and align the row headings center left.
Draw a double line border above the Totals row to separate it from the rest of the table.
Save the document as Tuition Rates on your Word Internet Assignments disk.
Preview the document, and then print it.
Close the document.