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- After you develop a productive touch keyboarding skill
- you will likely engage in report work. Once you memorize a
- number of basic rules, you will discover that report keying
- is quite easy. Generally, the report margins--top, bottom,
- and side--are all one inch. However, the top margin of the
- first page is two inches. To maintain the needed margin at
- the bottom of each page, Simple Writer provides both visual
- and numeric line position data. Reports, historically, due
- to being a typewritten product, are double spaced. But, it
- is rapidly becoming acceptable to single space report work.
- All reports require the use of headings. These are an
- aid to the reader in perceiving its organization. Headings
- are of three orders--centered, side, and paragraph. A long
- report generally requires all three heading levels, while a
- short report will often need only two. The report title is
- centered in full caps, with no underscoring. Side headings
- are typed against the left margin and are underscored; only
- its important words are capitalized. The paragraph heading
- is indented, underscored, and caps given only its principal
- words. This heading is part of the initial paragraph line.
-