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Productivity App
Productivity Apps for School and Work ........................................ PA-1
Introduction to OneNote 2016 ............................ PA-2
Introduction to Sway ............................................ PA-6
Introduction to Office Mix ................................. PA-10
Introduction to Microsoft Edge PA-14
Word 2016
Module 5: Creating and Formatting
Tables ..................................... Word 105
Insert a Table ............................................... Word 106
Converting text to a table and a table to text
Insert and Delete Rows and Columns ......... Word 108
Copying and moving rows and columns
Modify Rows and Columns ......................... Word 110
Module 5: Integrating Word and Access ............................. Integration 65
Merge from Access to Word..................Integration 66
Export an Access Report to Word ................................................. Integration 68 Practice ................................................. Integration 70
Powerpoint 2016
Module 5: Working with Advanced Tools and Masters .......................... PowerPoint 97
Draw and Format Connectors ............. PowerPoint 98
Set Up a Slide Show .......................... PowerPoint 176
Installing and using Office Add-ins
Create a Custom Show PowerPoint 178
Linking to a custom slide show
Prepare a Presentation for Distribution PowerPoint 180
Recording a slide show
Create a Photo Album ....................... PowerPoint 182
Publishing slides to a Slide Library
Deliver a Presentation Online ........... PowerPoint 184
Mastering PowerPoint features and online presentations
Practice .............................................. PowerPoint 186
Module 6: Integrating Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint ..................... Integration 73
Insert an Access Table into PowerPoint Integration 74
Insert Word Objects into PowerPoint ........................................... Integration 76
Link an Excel File into PowerPoint ........................................... Integration 78
Create PowerPoint Handouts in Word ................................................ Integration 80
Embed a PowerPoint Slide in Word ................................................. Integration 82 Practice ................................................. Integration 84
Productivity Apps for School and Work
Lochlan keeps track of his class notes, football plays, and internship meetings with OneNote.
Nori is creating a Sway site to highlight this year ’s activities for the Student Government Association.
Hunter is adding interactive videos and screen recordings to his PowerPoint resume
Zoe is using the annotation features of Microsoft Edge to take and save web notes for her research paper
Being computer literate no longer means mastery of only Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access. To become technology power users, Hunter, Nori, Zoe, and Lochlan are exploring Microsoft OneNote, Sway, Mix, and Edge in Office 2016 and Windows 10.
Learn to use productivity apps! Links to companion Sways, featuring videos with hands-on instructions, are located on www.cengagebrain.com.
Corinne Hoisington
Bottom Line
• OneNote is a note-taking app for your academic and professional life.
• Use OneNote to get organized by gathering your ideas, sketches, webpages, photos, videos, and notes in one place.
Introduction to OneNote 2016
notebook | section tab | To Do tag | screen clipping | note | template | Microsoft OneNote Mobile app | sync | drawing canvas | inked handwriting | Ink to Text
As you glance around any classroom, you invariably see paper notebooks and notepads on each desk. Because deciphering and sharing handwritten notes can be a challenge, Microso OneNote 2016 replaces physical notebooks, binders, and paper notes with a searchable, digital notebook. OneNote captures your ideas and schoolwork on any device so you can stay organized, share notes, and work with others on projects. Whether you are a student taking class notes as shown in Figure 1 or an employee taking notes in company meetings, OneNote is the one place to keep notes for all of your projects.
Figure 1: OneNote 2016 notebook
Each notebook is divided into sections, also called section tabs, by subject or topic.
Use To Do tags, icons that help you keep track of your assignments and other tasks.
Type on a page to add a note, a small window that contains text or other types of information.
Personalize a page with a template, or stationery
Pages can include pictures such as screen clippings, images from any part of a computer screen.
Creating a OneNote Notebook
Write or draw directly on the page using drawing tools.
Attach files and enter equations so you have everything you need in one place.
Learn to use OneNote!
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OneNote is divided into sections similar to those in a spiral-bound notebook. Each OneNote notebook contains sections, pages, and other notebooks. You can use OneNote for school, business, and personal projects. Store information for each type of project in di erent notebooks to keep your tasks separate, or use any other organization that suits you. OneNote is exible enough to adapt to the way you want to work. When you create a notebook, it contains a blank page with a plain white background by default, though you can use templates, or stationery, to apply designs in categories such as Academic, Business, Decorative, and Planners. Start typing or use the buttons on the Insert tab to insert notes, which are small resizable windows that can contain text, equations, tables, on-screen writing, images, audio and video recordings, to-do lists, le attachments, and le printouts. Add as many notes as you need to each page.
Syncing a Notebook to the Cloud
OneNote saves your notes every time you make a change in a notebook. To make sure you can access your notebooks with a laptop, tablet, or smartphone wherever you are, OneNote uses cloud-based storage, such as OneDrive or SharePoint. Microsoft OneNote Mobile app, a lightweight version of OneNote 2016 shown in Figure 2, is available for free in the Windows Store, Google Play for Android devices, and the AppStore for iOS devices.
If you have a Microso account, OneNote saves your notes on OneDrive automatically for all your mobile devices and computers, which is called syncing. For example, you can use OneNote to take notes on your laptop during class, and then
open OneNote on your phone to study later. To use a notebook stored on your computer with your OneNote Mobile app, move the notebook to OneDrive. You can quickly share notebook content with other people using OneDrive.
Taking Notes
Use OneNote pages to organize your notes by class and topic or lecture. Beyond simple typed notes, OneNote stores drawings, converts handwriting to searchable text and mathematical sketches to equations, and records audio and video. OneNote includes drawing tools that let you sketch freehand drawings such as biological cell diagrams and nancial supply-and-demand charts. As shown in Figure 3, the Draw tab on the ribbon provides these drawing tools along with shapes so you can insert diagrams and other illustrations to represent your ideas. When you draw on a page, OneNote creates a drawing canvas, which is a container for shapes and lines.
On the Job Now
OneNote is ideal for taking notes during meetings, whether you are recording minutes, documenting a discussion, sketching product diagrams, or listing follow-up items. Use a meeting template to add pages with content appropriate for meetings.
Converting Handwriting to Text
When you use a pen tool to write on a notebook page, the text you enter is called inked handwriting . OneNote can convert inked handwriting to typed text when you use the Ink to Text button in the Convert group on the Draw tab, as shown in Figure 4 . A er OneNote converts the handwriting to text, you can use the Search box to nd terms in the converted text or any other note in your notebooks.
Figure 2: Microsoft OneNote Mobile app
Notes synced to OneDrive and displayed on a smartphone
Draw tab
Pens and highlighters are in the Tools group.
Insert text using the Type button in the Tools group.
Insert rectangles and lines from the Shapes group.
Lines and shapes are in the Shapes group
Make drawings using pens in the Tools group
Figure 3: Tools on the Draw tab
Figure 4: Converting handwriting to text
On the Job Now
Use OneNote as a place to brainstorm ongoing work projects. If a notebook contains sensitive material, you can password-protect some or all of the notebook so that only certain people can open it.
Writing inserted with a fingertip
Ink to Text button
Handwriting converted to searchable text
Recording a Lecture
If your computer or mobile device has a microphone or camera, OneNote can record the audio or video from a lecture or business meeting as shown in Figure 5. When you record a lecture (with your instructor’s permission), you can follow along, take regular notes at your own pace, and review the video recording later. You can control the start, pause, and stop motions of the recording when you play back the recording of your notes.
Figure 5: Video inserted in a notebook
Math Lecture video file
Video recording
Reco rd Video button
Audio & Video Recording tab
Try This Now
1: Taking Notes for a Week
As a student, you can get organized by using OneNote to take detailed notes in your classes. Perform the following tasks:
a. Create a new OneNote notebook on your Microso OneDrive account (the default location for new notebooks). Name the notebook with your rst name followed by “Notes,” as in Caleb Notes
b. Create four section tabs, each with a di erent class name.
Learn to use OneNote!
Links to companion Sways, featuring videos with hands-on instructions, are located on www.cengagebrain.com.
c. Take detailed notes in those classes for one week. Be sure to include notes, drawings, and other types of content.
d. Sync your notes with your OneDrive. Submit your assignment in the format speci ed by your instructor.
2: Using OneNote to Organize a Research Paper
You have a research paper due on the topic of three habits of successful students. Use OneNote to organize your research. Perform the following tasks:
a. Create a new OneNote notebook on your Microso OneDrive account. Name the notebook Success Research
b. Create three section tabs with the following names:
• Take Detailed Notes
• Be Respectful in Class
• Come to Class Prepared
c. On the web, research the topics and nd three sources for each section. Copy a sentence from each source and paste the sentence into the appropriate section. When you paste the sentence, OneNote inserts it in a note with a link to the source.
d. Sync your notes with your OneDrive. Submit your assignment in the format speci ed by your instructor.
3: Planning Your Career
Note: is activity requires a webcam or built-in video camera on any type of device. Consider an occupation that interests you. Using OneNote, examine the responsibilities, education requirements, potential salary, and employment outlook of a speci c career. Perform the following tasks:
a. Create a new OneNote notebook on your Microso OneDrive account. Name the notebook with your rst name followed by a career title, such as Kara - App Developer
b. Create four section tabs with the names Responsibilities, Education Requirements, Median Salary, and Employment Outlook
c. Research the responsibilities of your career path. Using OneNote, record a short video (approximately 30 seconds) of yourself explaining the responsibilities of your career path. Place the video in the Responsibilities section.
d. On the web, research the educational requirements for your career path and nd two appropriate sources. Copy a paragraph from each source and paste them into the appropriate section. When you paste a paragraph, OneNote inserts it in a note with a link to the source.
e. R esearch the median salary for a single year for this career. Create a mathematical equation in the Median Salary section that multiplies the amount of the median salary times 20 years to calculate how much you will possibly earn.
f. For the Employment Outlook section, research the outlook for your career path. Take at least four notes about what you nd when researching the topic.
g. Sync your notes with your OneDrive. Submit your assignment in the format speci ed by your instructor.
Bottom Line
• Drag photos, videos, and files from your computer and content from Facebook and Twitter directly to your Sway presentation.
• Run Sway in a web browser or as an app on your smartphone, and save presentations as webpages.
Introduction to Sway
Sway site | responsive design | Storyline | card | Creative Commons license | animation emphasis e ects | Docs.com
Expressing your ideas in a presentation typically means creating PowerPoint slides or a Word document. Microsoft Sway gives you another way to engage an audience. Sway is a free Microsoft tool available at Sway.com or as an app in Office 365. Using Sway, you can combine text, images, videos, and social media in a website called a Sway site that you can share and display on any device. To get started, you create a digital story on a web-based canvas without borders, slides, cells, or page breaks. A Sway site organizes the text, images, and video into a responsive design , which means your content adapts perfectly to any screen size as shown in Figure 6 . You store a Sway site in the cloud on OneDrive using a free Microsoft account.
You can display a Sway presentation in a web browser
Sway uses responsive design to make sure pages fit perfectly on any device.
Learn to use Sway!
Links to companion Sways, featuring videos with hands-on instructions, are located on www.cengagebrain.com.
Creating a Sway Presentation
You can use Sway to build a digital yer, a club newsletter, a vacation blog, an informational site, a digital art portfolio, or a new product rollout. A er you select your topic and sign into Sway with your Microso account, a Storyline opens, providing tools and a work area for composing your digital story. See Figure 7. Each story can include text, images, and videos. You create a Sway by adding text and media content into a Storyline section, or card. To add pictures, videos, or documents, select a card in the le pane and then select the Insert Content button. e rst card in a Sway presentation contains a title and background image.
Figure 6: Sway site with responsive design
7: Creating a Sway site
Design and create Sway presentations.
Share and play published Sway sites.
To add content, select a card, which is designed to hold a particular type of information.
Arrange content in a Storyline, which contains all the text, pictures, videos, and other media in a Sway presentation.
After selecting a card, click the Insert Content button to add the content to the Sway presentation
Adding Content to Build a Story
As you work, Sway searches the Internet to help you nd relevant images, videos, tweets, and other content from online sources such as Bing, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. You can drag content from the search results right into the Storyline. In addition, you can upload your own images and videos directly in the presentation. For example, if you are creating a Sway presentation about the market for commercial drones, Sway suggests content to incorporate into the presentation by displaying it in the le pane as search results. e search results include drone images tagged with a Creative Commons license at online sources as shown in Figure 8. A Creative Commons license is a public copyright license that allows the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work. In addition, you can specify the source of the media. For example, you can add your own Facebook or OneNote pictures and videos in Sway without leaving the app.
If you have a Microsoft Word document containing an outline of your business content, drag the outline into Sway to create a card for each topic. On the Job Now
Figure
Figure 8: Images in Sway search results
Storyline title
Drag an image to the picture placeholder box
Suggested images in the search results
Information about Creative Commons licenses Select the source of media objects
If your project team wants to collaborate on a Sway presentation, click the Authors button on the navigation bar to invite others to edit the presentation. On the Job Now
Designing a Sway
Sway professionally designs your Storyline content by resizing background images and fonts to t your display, and by oating text, animating media, embedding video, and removing images as a page scrolls out of view. Sway also evaluates the images in your Storyline and suggests a color palette based on colors that appear in your photos. Use the Design button to display tools including color palettes, font choices, animation emphasis e ects, and style templates to provide a personality for a Sway presentation. Instead of creating your own design, you can click the Remix button, which randomly selects unique designs for your Sway site.
Publishing a Sway
Use the Play button to display your nished Sway presentation as a website. e Address bar includes a unique web address where others can view your Sway site. As the author, you can edit a published Sway site by clicking the Edit button (pencil icon) on the Sway toolbar.
Sharing a Sway
When you are ready to share your Sway website, you have several options as shown in Figure 9. Use the Share slider button to share the Sway site publically or keep it private. If you add the Sway site to the Microso Docs.com public gallery, anyone worldwide can use Bing, Google, or other search engines to nd, view, and share your Sway site. You can also share your Sway site using Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Yammer, and other social media sites. Link your presentation to any webpage or email the link to your audience. Sway can also generate a code for embedding the link within another webpage.
Figure 9: Sharing a Sway site
Share button
Drag the slider button to Just me to keep the Sway site private
Try This Now
1: Creating a Sway Resume
Sway is a digital storytelling app. Create a Sway resume to share the skills, job experiences, and achievements you have that match the requirements of a future job interest. Perform the following tasks:
a. Create a new presentation in Sway to use as a digital resume. Title the Sway Storyline with your full name and then select a background image.
Learn to use Sway!
Links to companion Sways, featuring videos with hands-on instructions, are located on www.cengagebrain.com.
b. Create three separate sections titled Academic Background, Work Experience, and Skills, and insert text, a picture, and a paragraph or bulleted points in each section. Be sure to include your own picture.
c. Add a fourth section that includes a video about your school that you nd online.
d. Customize the design of your presentation.
e. Submit your assignment link in the format speci ed by your instructor.
2: Creating an Online Sway Newsletter
Newsletters are designed to capture the attention of their target audience. Using Sway, create a newsletter for a club, organization, or your favorite music group. Perform the following tasks:
a. Create a new presentation in Sway to use as a digital newsletter for a club, organization, or your favorite music group. Provide a title for the Sway Storyline and select an appropriate background image.
b. Select three separate sections with appropriate titles, such as Upcoming Events. In each section, insert text, a picture, and a paragraph or bulleted points.
c. Add a fourth section that includes a video about your selected topic.
d. Customize the design of your presentation.
e. Submit your assignment link in the format speci ed by your instructor.
3: Creating and Sharing a Technology Presentation
To place a Sway presentation in the hands of your entire audience, you can share a link to the Sway presentation. Create a Sway presentation on a new technology and share it with your class. Perform the following tasks:
a. Create a new presentation in Sway about a cutting-edge technology topic. Provide a title for the Sway Storyline and select a background image.
b. Create four separate sections about your topic, and include text, a picture, and a paragraph in each section.
c. Add a h section that includes a video about your topic.
d. Customize the design of your presentation.
e. Share the link to your Sway with your classmates and submit your assignment link in the format speci ed by your instructor.
Bottom Line
• O ce Mix is a free PowerPoint add-in from Microsoft that adds features to PowerPoint.
• The Mix tab on the PowerPoint ribbon provides tools for creating screen recordings, videos, interactive quizzes, and live webpages.
To enliven business meetings and lectures, Microso adds a new dimension to presentations with a powerful toolset called O ce Mix, a free add-in for PowerPoint. (An add-in is so ware that works with an installed app to extend its features.) Using O ce Mix, you can record yourself on video, capture still and moving images on your desktop, and insert interactive elements such as quizzes and live webpages directly into PowerPoint slides. When you post the nished presentation to OneDrive, O ce Mix provides a link you can share with friends and colleagues. Anyone with an Internet connection and a web browser can watch a published O ce Mix presentation, such as the one in Figure 10, on a computer or mobile device.
You can view a published Office Mix presentation in a browser on any device, even if PowerPoint is not installed.
Learn to use O ce Mix!
Links to companion Sways, featuring videos with hands-on instructions, are located on www.cengagebrain.com.
Click to continue to the next
Display a list of slides with titles.
Adding Office Mix to PowerPoint
To get started, you create an O ce Mix account at the website mix.o ce.com using an email address or a Facebook or Google account. Next, you download and install the O ce Mix add-in (see Figure 11). O ce Mix appears as a new tab named Mix on the PowerPoint ribbon in versions of O ce 2013 and O ce 2016 running on personal computers (PCs).
Download the Office Mix free add-in from mix.office.com.
Click the Get Office Mix button to download Office Mix and install it as a tab on the PowerPoint ribbon.
Figure 10: O ce Mix presentation
slide
Figure 11: Getting started with O ce Mix
Capturing Video Clips
A clip is a short segment of audio, such as music, or video. A er nishing the content on a PowerPoint slide, you can use O ce Mix to add a video clip to animate or illustrate the content. O ce Mix creates video clips in two ways: by recording live action on a webcam and by capturing screen images and movements. If your computer has a webcam, you can record yourself and annotate the slide to create a slide recording as shown in Figure 12.
Reco rd
Use the Slide Notes button to display notes for your narration.
On the Job Now
Companies are using Office Mix to train employees about new products, to explain benefit packages to new workers, and to educate interns about office procedures.
When you are making a slide recording, you can record your spoken narration at the same time. e Slide Notes feature works like a teleprompter to help you focus on your presentation content instead of memorizing your narration. Use the Inking tools to make annotations or add highlighting using di erent pen types and colors. A er nishing a recording, edit the video in PowerPoint to trim the length or set playback options.
e second way to create a video is to capture on-screen images and actions with or without a voiceover. is method is ideal if you want to show how to use your favorite website or demonstrate an app such as OneNote. To share your screen with an audience, select the part of the screen you want to show in the video. O ce Mix captures everything that happens in that area to create a screen recording, as shown in Figure 13 O ce Mix inserts the screen recording as a video in the slide.
Reco rd the action on the screen within the red dashed outline
Select Area button
For best results, look directly at your webcam while recording video.
Choose a video and audio device to record images and sound.
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To make your video recordings accessible to people with hearing impairments, use the Office Mix closed-captioning tools. You can also use closed captions to supplement audio that is difficult to understand and to provide an aid for those learning to read.
Figure 13: Making a screen recording
Reco rd audio while capturing your on-screen actions.
Figure 12: Making a slide recording
your voice; also record video if your computer has a camera
Use inking tools to write and draw on the slide as you record
Quizzes Videos Apps button
Inserting Quizzes, Live Webpages, and Apps
To enhance and assess audience understanding, make your slides interactive by adding quizzes, live webpages, and apps. Quizzes give immediate feedback to the user as shown in Figure 14 . O ce Mix supports several quiz formats, including a free-response quiz similar to a short answer quiz, and true/false, multiple-choice, and multiple-response formats.
Sharing an Office Mix Presentation
When you complete your work with O ce Mix, upload the presentation to your personal O ce Mix dashboard as shown in Figure 15. Users of PCs, Macs, iOS devices, and Android devices can access and play O ce Mix presentations. e O ce Mix dashboard displays built-in analytics that include the quiz results and how much time viewers spent on each slide. You can play completed O ce Mix presentations online or download them as movies.
Figure 14: Creating an interactive quiz
Randomly shuffle quiz responses
Mix tab on the PowerPoint ribbon
Green checkmark identifies the correct answer
Figure 15: Sharing an O ce Mix presentation
Office Mix dashboard displays the quiz analytics.
Try This Now
1: Creating an Office Mix Tutorial for OneNote
Note: is activity requires a microphone on your computer.
O ce Mix makes it easy to record screens and their contents. Create PowerPoint slides with an O ce Mix screen recording to show OneNote 2016 features. Perform the following tasks:
Learn to use O ce Mix!
Links to companion Sways, featuring videos with hands-on instructions, are located on www.cengagebrain.com.
a. Create a PowerPoint presentation with the Ion Boardroom template. Create an opening slide with the title My Favorite OneNote Features and enter your name in the subtitle.
b. Create three additional slides, each titled with a new feature of OneNote. Open OneNote and use the Mix tab in PowerPoint to capture three separate screen recordings that teach your favorite features.
c. Add a h slide that quizzes the user with a multiple-choice question about OneNote and includes four responses. Be sure to insert a checkmark indicating the correct response.
d. Upload the completed presentation to your O ce Mix dashboard and share the link with your instructor.
e. Submit your assignment link in the format speci ed by your instructor.
2: Teaching Augmented Reality with Office Mix
Note: is activity requires a webcam or built-in video camera on your computer.
A local elementary school has asked you to teach augmented reality to its students using O ce Mix. Perform the following tasks:
a. Research augmented reality using your favorite online search tools.
b. Create a PowerPoint presentation with the Frame template. Create an opening slide with the title Augmented Reality and enter your name in the subtitle.
c. Create a slide with four bullets summarizing your research of augmented reality. Create a 20-second slide recording of yourself providing a quick overview of augmented reality.
d. Create another slide with a 30-second screen recording of a video about augmented reality from a site such as YouTube or another video-sharing site.
e. Add a nal slide that quizzes the user with a true/false question about augmented reality. Be sure to insert a checkmark indicating the correct response.
f. Upload the completed presentation to your O ce Mix dashboard and share the link with your instructor.
g. Submit your assignment link in the format speci ed by your instructor.
3: Marketing a Travel Destination with Office Mix
Note: is activity requires a webcam or built-in video camera on your computer.
To convince your audience to travel to a particular city, create a slide presentation marketing any city in the world using a slide recording, screen recording, and a quiz. Perform the following tasks:
a. Create a PowerPoint presentation with any template. Create an opening slide with the title of the city you are marketing as a travel destination and your name in the subtitle.
b. Create a slide with four bullets about the featured city. Create a 30-second slide recording of yourself explaining why this city is the perfect vacation destination.
c. Create another slide with a 20-second screen recording of a travel video about the city from a site such as YouTube or another video-sharing site.
d. Add a nal slide that quizzes the user with a multiple-choice question about the featured city with ve responses. Be sure to include a checkmark indicating the correct response.
e. Upload the completed presentation to your O ce Mix dashboard and share your link with your instructor.
f. Submit your assignment link in the format speci ed by your instructor.
Bottom Line
• Microsoft Edge is the name of the new web browser built into Windows 10.
• Microsoft Edge allows you to search the web faster, take web notes, read webpages without distractions, and get instant assistance from Cortana.
Microso Edge is the default web browser developed for the Windows 10 operating system as a replacement for Internet Explorer. Unlike its predecessor, Edge lets you write on webpages, read webpages without advertisements and other distractions, and search for information using a virtual personal assistant. e Edge interface is clean and basic, as shown in Figure 16, meaning you can pay more attention to the webpage content.
Browsing the Web with Microsoft Edge
Learn to use Edge!
Links to companion Sways, featuring videos with hands-on instructions, are located on www.cengagebrain.com.
On the Job Now
Businesses started adopting Internet Explorer more than 20 years ago simply to view webpages. Today, Microsoft Edge has a different purpose: to promote interaction with the web and share its contents with colleagues.
One of the fastest browsers available, Edge allows you to type search text directly in the Address bar. As you view the resulting webpage, you can switch to Reading view, which is available for most news and research sites, to eliminate distracting advertisements. For example, if you are catching up on technology news online, the webpage might be di cult to read due to a busy layout cluttered with ads. Switch to Reading view to refresh the page and remove the original page formatting, ads, and menu sidebars to read the article distraction-free.
Consider the Hub in Microso Edge as providing one-stop access to all the things you collect on the web, such as your favorite websites, reading list, sur ng history, and downloaded les.
Locating Information with Cortana
Cortana, the Windows 10 virtual assistant, plays an important role in Microso Edge. A er you turn on Cortana, it appears as an animated circle in the Address bar when you might need assistance, as shown in the restaurant website in Figure 17. When you click the Cortana icon, a pane slides in from the right of the browser window to display detailed information about the restaurant, including maps and reviews. Cortana can also assist you in de ning words, nding the weather, suggesting coupons for shopping, updating stock market information, and calculating math.
Figure 16: Microsoft Edge tools
Annotating Webpages
One of the most impressive Microso Edge features are the Web Note tools, which you use to write on a webpage or to highlight text. When you click the Make a Web Note button, an Inking toolbar appears, as shown in Figure 18, that provides writing and drawing tools. ese tools include an eraser, a pen, and a highlighter with di erent colors. You can also insert a typed note and copy a screen image (called a screen clipping). You can draw with a pointing device, ngertip, or stylus using di erent pen colors. Whether you add notes to a recipe, annotate sources for a research paper, or select a product while shopping online, the Web Note tools can enhance your productivity. A er you complete your notes, click the Save button to save the annotations to OneNote, your Favorites list, or your Reading list. You can share the inked page with others using the Share Web Note button.
On the Job Now
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Figure 17: Cortana
Cortana circle icon in the Address bar
Cortana provides a map, address, location details, phone number, type of food, rating, and menu
Figure 18: Web Note tools in Microsoft Edge
Highlighted text
Typed note
Save a copy of the webpage with annotations
Inking toolbar with Web Note tools for making annotations
Writing and drawing created with the Pen tool
Try This Now
1: Using Cortana in Microsoft Edge
Note: is activity requires using Microso Edge on a Windows 10 computer. Cortana can assist you in nding information on a webpage in Microso Edge. Perform the following tasks:
a. Create a Word document using the Word Screen Clipping tool to capture the following screenshots.
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• Screenshot A—Using Microso Edge, open a webpage with a technology news article. Right-click a term in the article and ask Cortana to de ne it.
• Screenshot B—Using Microso Edge, open the website of a fancy restaurant in a city near you. Make sure the Cortana circle icon is displayed in the Address bar. (If it’s not displayed, nd a di erent restaurant website.) Click the Cortana circle icon to display a pane with information about the restaurant.
• Screenshot C—Using Microso Edge, type 10 USD to Euros in the Address bar without pressing the Enter key. Cortana converts the U.S. dollars to Euros.
• Screenshot D—Using Microso Edge, type Apple stock in the Address bar without pressing the Enter key. Cortana displays the current stock quote.
b. Submit your assignment in the format speci ed by your instructor.
2: Viewing Online News with Reading View
Note: is activity requires using Microso Edge on a Windows 10 computer. Reading view in Microso Edge can make a webpage less cluttered with ads and other distractions. Perform the following tasks:
a. Create a Word document using the Word Screen Clipping tool to capture the following screenshots.
• Screenshot A—Using Microso Edge, open the website mashable.com. Open a technology article. Click the Reading view button to display an ad-free page that uses only basic text formatting.
• Screenshot B—Using Microso Edge, open the website bbc.com. Open any news article. Click the Reading view button to display an ad-free page that uses only basic text formatting.
• Screenshot C—Make three types of annotations (Pen, Highlighter, and Add a typed note) on the BBC article page displayed in Reading view.
b. Submit your assignment in the format speci ed by your instructor.
3:
Inking with Microsoft Edge
Note: is activity requires using Microso Edge on a Windows 10 computer. Microso Edge provides many annotation options to record your ideas. Perform the following tasks:
a. O pen the website wolframalpha.com in the Microsoft Edge browser. Wolfram Alpha is a well-respected ac ademic search engine. Type US$100 1965 dollars in 2015 in the Wolfram Alpha search text box and press the Enter key.
b. C lick the Make a Web Note button to display the Web Note tools. Using the Pen tool, draw a circle around the result on the webpage. Save the page to OneNote.
c. In the Wolfram Alpha search text box, type the name of the city closest to where you live and press the Enter key. Using the Highlighter tool, highlight at least three interesting results. Add a note and then type a sentence about what you learned about this city. Save the page to OneNote. Share your OneNote notebook with your instructor.
d. Submit your assignment link in the format specified by your instructor.
Word 2016 Module 5
Creating and Formatting Tables
CASE
You are preparing a summary budget for an advertising campaign aimed at the Boston market. The goal of the ad campaign is to promote winter projects in tropical destinations. You decide to format the budget information as a table so that it is easy to read and analyze.
Module Objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Insert a table
• Insert and delete rows and columns
• Modify rows and columns
• Sort table data
• Split and merge cells
• Perform calculations in tables
• Apply a table style
• Customize a table format
Files You Will Need
Learning Outcomes
• Insert a table
• Type text in a table
• Add rows
STEPS
If the rulers are not displayed, click the Ruler check box in the Show group on the View tab. QUICK TIP
Insert a Table
A table is a grid made up of rows and columns of cells that you can fill with text and graphics. A cell is the box formed by the intersection of a column and a row The lines that divide the columns and rows and help you see the grid-like structure of a table are called borders You can create a table in a document by using the Table command in the Tables group on the Insert tab. Once you have created a table, you can add text and graphics to it. CASE You begin by inserting a blank table and adding text to it.
1. Start Word, click Blank document, click the View tab, then click the Page Width button in the Zoom group
2. Click the Insert tab, then click the Table button in the Tables group
The Table menu opens. It includes a grid for selecting the number of columns and rows you want the table to contain, as well as several commands for inserting a table. TA BL E 5-1 describes these commands. As you move the pointer across the grid, a preview of the table with the specified number of columns and rows appears in the document at the location of the insertion point.
3. Point to the second box in the fourth row to select 2x4 Table, then click
A table with two columns and four rows is inserted in the document, as shown in F I GUR E 5-1 . Black borders surround the table cells. The insertion point is in the first cell in the first row.
4. Type Location, then press [Tab]
Pressing [Tab] moves the insertion point to the next cell in the row.
5. Type Cost, press [Tab], then type The Boston Globe
Pressing [Tab] at the end of a row moves the insertion point to the first cell in the next row.
6. Press [Tab], type 28,900, press [Tab], then type the following text in the table, pressing [Tab] to move from cell to cell
Boston.com 26,000 Taxi tops 16,000
7. Press [Tab]
Pressing [Tab] at the end of the last cell of a table creates a new row at the bottom of the table, as shown in F I GUR E 5-2 . The insertion point is located in the first cell in the new row.
If you pressed [Tab] after the last row, click the Undo button on the Quick Access toolbar to remove the new blank row. TROUBLE
8. Type the following, pressing [Tab] to move from cell to cell and to create new rows
Cambridge Chronicle17,460
Wickedlocal.com 5,750
MBTA stops 12,000 Boston Magazine11,400
9. Click the Save button on the Quick Access toolbar, then save the document as WD 5-Boston Ad Budget to the location where you store your Data Files
The table is shown in F I GUR E 5-3
TA BL E 5-1: Table menu commands
command use to
Insert Table
Draw Table
Convert Text to Table
Excel Spreadsheet
Quick Tables
Create a table with any number of columns and rows and select an AutoFit behavior
Create a complex table by drawing the table columns and rows
Convert text that is separated by tabs, commas, or another separator character into a table
Insert a blank Excel worksheet into the document as an embedded object
Insert a preformatted table template and replace the placeholder data with your own data
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before (date I cannot recollect), also one from Genl. Ferguson, whom I shall be most happy to see, though I rejoice that he has escaped this winter campaign. I never wish to serve another, particularly for such a morose uncivil set, who will only talk. Adieu, may God bless you all, and may I soon have the happiness of embracing you. Remember me most kindly to the Adamsons, and believe me, ever most affectionately yours in the greatest haste,
W. W.
P.S.—Everything should be moved from Porto, I think. I will write by first opportunity
Our cavalry have distinguished themselves. This letter in perfect confidence from Yrs.
W. W.
We have had tremendous weather, particularly during our march over the mountains. As long as I have health, however, I do not care for myself, though I am not yet really hardened enough to misery and wretchedness, not to be unhappy at contemplating the miseries of war in our men and the wretched inhabitants of the country. May our beloved country never be a scene of warfare. Better ½ of its men should die on the beach.
Barfleur, S , Jany 18, 1809
M D F ,
I have just time to say I am quite well, and happy in the prospect of soon seeing all my beloved friends, after our disastrous and most harassing retreat from Lugo. We arrived at Coruña and found no transports, they arrived a few days after, but before we could embark the French attacked us on the 16th, with all their force, in our most disadvantageous position. They were repulsed by a valour which only English troops can possess, though exposed to a tremendous commanding fire of cannon. Poor Sir John Moore was killed. Sir
David Baird lost his arm. Our loss in killed and wounded is very great, though not so much as that of the enemy.
Our Brigade, which was in the Town to cover the embarkation, moved to cover a road to the right of the position, but were not attacked, or engaged at all, as was expected. We were therefore contemplators only of the gallant and astonishing firmness of our comrades. The 50th and the 42nd suffered most.
During the night most of our army embarked. Genl. Beresford’s Brigade covered the embarkation, having retired into the works of the town. The French approached in the morning close to us. We gave them a warm reception with our 24 prs. assisted by the Spaniards, who on this occasion behaved very well. The enemy fired on our transports most, and several went on shore and were lost in the confusion. Our situation was most critical all the next day and night, till (we) embarked the whole, about one in the morning.
Fortunately the enemy did not fire on the town, and suffered us to embark, (or were totally ignorant of it), without annoying us. We were very weak, just enough to man the works, and dreaded an assault, the boats being able to take only 500 at a time, and weather very bad. However we not only got ourselves but most of the wounded in safety, though all most overcome with fatigue.
Adieu, in hopes of soon seeing you, My dearest Parents. Kindest love to all my friends, from your most affectionate Son, W . W .
(Note, in Henry Warre’s writing, “Received 24th Jany. at night.”)
P , Jany 23, 1809
At last, my Dearest Mother, I have the happiness to tell you of our safe arrival at this place. I wrote a few lines in a great hurry from off Coruña, which I hope you received. I long to reach town, and shall set off as soon as possible in a chaise, with Col. Douglas of Wycombe. We go by Bath, where we shall shake the Hardies by the
hand, and in 4 days shall, I hope, embrace all my beloved family I am very far from well, and most in need of rest. A constant bowel complaint, occasioned by fatigue and being constantly wet, has pulled me down very much. I am a mere skeleton, but rest and the happiness of seeing all that is dearest to me will soon, I think, recover me.
To describe our anxiety, and what we went through at Coruña the last day and night, is not easy. Suffice it to say, we had (but for Mr Samuel How) been left behind, and now instead of being in our dear native country, should have been marching prisoners to France. The thought even now makes me shudder. Nearly exhausted and harassed to death, we were in a bad state to undertake such a journey. We, however, were more fortunate and brought off all our sick and wounded except very few.
Don’t forget our last conversation. I have indulged in it in my most distressing moments. What a spur it has been to exertion I leave you to guess.
Adieu; kindest love to my dear Father, Emily, Uncle Wm., etc., etc., etc., from, Dearest Mother, Your most truly Affectionate W . W .
P.S.—Pray buy me some worsted socks very long in the feet, I am almost naked as to foot, having worn my present pair at least ten days.
L , March 3, 1809
M D F ,
We arrived here yesterday, safe and well, after a very pleasant voyage of 8 days. The Portuguese are in high spirits, and promise well. They have had some skirmishing on the Minho, and repulsed the French, whose numbers we know nothing certain of. Of course these accounts are much exaggerated, but if they can be made to think they can resist, and stand fire, it is a great point.
As to our own destination I as yet know nothing. The Portuguese army is on the frontier towards Monte Rey. I suppose we shall join them. Romana is near there, and, I hear, has collected a considerable force, and is in spirits as is the Marquez de Valliadacen, who is with them. It is, it seems, the general opinion that the French under Thomier, about 10,000 men, will endeavour to penetrate by the Minho, and that the Portuguese are determined to give them fight. By the last accounts from the frontier not a Frenchman had passed it. Something may yet be done.
The Spaniards under Cuesta and the Duke of Infantado have advanced towards the border of the Sierra Morena nearest Madrid, and at least our official accounts tell us that they speak with confidence, and are in high spirits. Romana wants nothing but ammunition, which has been sent, and we spoke at sea and brought into this with us a Spanish schooner with 105,000 dollars for the Asturians, who has proceeded.
Every thing that I hear confirms my opinion that our retreat from Spain, etc., etc., etc., was inconsiderate, and I fear will place us in rather a disgraceful light. This entre nous The French after they entered Coruña acknowledged having lost 1000 men killed on the 16th, and of course more than as many wounded. They spoke highly of the bravery of our men. This we have from the General’s Italian servants, whom we left there, and who were in Gurèa’s house when Laborde took up his Quarters there. This I believe certain, that Buonaparte has returned to Paris, and taken his Imperial Guards with him.
The Brest fleet 16 S. L. and 3 frigates is out. We were becalmed off Cape Finisterre only a few hours before they came up bringing the breeze. It was a narrow escape. Yesterday Sir John Duckworth was off here with 11 S. L. and 2 frigates, and was joined from here by 2 S. L., the Norge and Conqueror, and is in pursuit of them. God send he may come up with them. The issue is not doubtful.
So much for Public News. I send on mere reports, though I do not entirely vouch for the whole being true. The Portuguese are very anxious for Sir Arthur Wellesley. They think he would do everything
that is possible. Nothing can exceed the high idea they have of him, and they are right.
I am very sorry to tell you that I hear Alvez had not shipped any of your wines, and had near 340 pipes on hand. They complain of want of instructions from you, but could, I believe, if he had exerted himself, have got freight for most. Ignorant as I am of business, and particularly of the instructions you may have given him, I feel great delicacy in writing and giving any orders. He never, I think, can have received my letter from Coruña. Croft certainly did not. I shall write to him by to-morrow post, desiring him to give me an account of how your affairs are, at the same time taking upon myself to desire him, if not contrary to any instructions he may have received from you, to charter at all events a vessel to ship off all your wines (if he can get one), but to wait for convoy unless the business presses very much. Though things look brighter than I expected, the fate of war is so uncertain, and the odds are against us, so that I think no time should be lost. I should have chartered a vessel here, but on consulting with our worthy friend James Butler, he seems not to think it worth while till I hear from Alvez, and there is no English ship at present in this port. I have felt much distressed at this apparent want of foresight, but suppose the last packet must have brought him your instructions. Nothing can be kinder than the interest that Wm. Naylor and Butler take in your concerns, but with great delicacy. It was said on Change at Porto that several Packets only brought 2 letters from my Uncle to John Benito, which caused a smile. I write this to you, my dearest Friend, because these sort of smiles, I fear, do much harm in business. This I heard from other quarters. Croft is here, but I have not yet met him. My heavy baggage, which was left here, I will send by the Amazon to England. I write this by the Peacock sloop of war, though in great haste. I am quite well. I have so many things to do and think of that I hope I shall not have time to be sick. I will write again by the first opportunity. In meantime may God bless and preserve you all. Give my kindest and warmest love to my dearest Mother, etc., etc., and from Yr. ever most affectionate Son, W . W .
The weather is most delightful though very warm. The change from England is very striking. Adieu.
I hope the wines I ordered from Spain, have or will be sent.
M D F ,
L , April 1, 1809.
In addition to what I wrote to my mother by this Conveyance, the Diligent Gun Brig, which has been delayed by the Bar, I have merely time to communicate the very disastrous news of the taking of Porto by the French. We have as yet received no particulars, and only know that the Bishop, and one British officer, Captn. Arenschild of Artillery, the G. Legion, were arrived at Coimbra.
From the complete state of insubordination of the populace of that city, this event we have for some time foreseen, and in the state of indiscipline and insubordination of the Portuguese army, any assistance we could have sent would have, I much fear, only added to our loss, as they would have been also hurried away by, and as intractable as, the mob, who, cruel and sanguinary to an excess against themselves or prisoners, are always timid and cowardly. They have assassinated many people there, amongst others Oliveira the former Governor, who was in gaol. They also murdered nine or ten French prisoners, and let all the felons loose. Such was their wretched state that they would obey no one, and rendered it highly dangerous to attempt any plan to secure a retreat, in case of accidents, as you would risk being murdered. I therefore fear our loss in men and arms very great, but we have no details.
The Mob, some days before, broke into a magazine of arms, which they plundered, and then seized the Fort of St Johns, allowing no ship to go out. I have therefore every reason to fear your ship with wine, which was loaded, was unable to get out. The Captain had moved over to the other side of the water, which is however within shot. The wines in the Lodges, if they have, as I hope, destroyed the
Bridge, are still safe, for bad as this news is, I have still hopes that Soult and his division are in a bad scrape, and weaker in numbers than generally supposed. The Provinces behind him are in a state of insurrection, and I trust Silveira will get into their rear, as he is now disembarrassed by the taking (by him) of the Fort of St Francisco at Chaves, with 870, added to 200 in Chaves, when he before entered, who were sick, upwards of a thousand, and 300 killed. He has also taken more mules, horses, artillery, etc., etc., than were in the place when taken by the French, and his own loss trifling.
Galicia is certainly in a state of complete insurrection and full of enthusiasm and spirit. They have summoned Vigo, and given the French garrison only 24 hours to decide in. Tuy is also surrounded and expected to fall. Thus the retreat or communications of Soult’s Corps (of whose numbers we are ignorant, but cannot believe exceed 15,000 men) are pretty well cut off, and, unless supported by the Corps, which threatens us by the banks of the Tagus, and at present besieges Ciudad Rodrigo, will, I hope, be destroyed.
We have also a report here to-day that the Duke of Albuquerque and Cuesta have joined and given Victor a beating, which we give little credit to, as we knew of Victor’s precipitate retreat from pursuing Cuesta towards the South, and being followed by that General, whose retreat was a very masterly movement, and I suspect had really drawn the French into a cul de sac, which they discovered before it was intended they should, but late enough to enable their rear to be turned. Urbina, it is said, is advancing towards Madrid. If Austria would but declare, everything might yet go well.
Our friend Whittingham has distinguished himself very much, and been thanked in orders by the Spanish General, I am not sure which. He was quite well with the Carolina army. The people here are quiet at present, though not much pleased with the inactivity of the English force. They are great fools, and know nothing about the matter, though I myself wish our people would make a movement. Adieu, in great haste, with kindest love to all at home, ever yr. most affectionate Son,
W . W .
Major P.F., Aide-de-Camp.
M D F ,
April 7, 1809.
I take the opportunity of Fred Crofts going in the Amazon to send you receipts for my Staff pay. I also yesterday drew on you, dated 5th inst., to Dr Deane or order £56, 10s, amount of a Spanish horse bought of him, and which by providing me with two horses renders it unnecessary you should be at any trouble about buying me any, as the General having given me one, I have now 3, which is enough.
Croft will tell you all the news and all about me, which it is out of my power to do now myself, as Croft will tell you. We leave this tomorrow for the army at Thomar, which the Marshal is going to take Command of.
By the Amazon I have sent all my heavy baggage, five cases, etc., and some sweetmeats, which pray send to Ferguson to present to Mrs Ferguson with my best respects. I have also sent some chains directed to my Mother, which she will be so good as to distribute as directed. I am most anxious to hear from you and will write myself on the first opportunity.
As I have only time now to beg my kindest love, and assure you I am ever most Affectionately Yours,
W . W .
H ., T , April 27, 1809.
M D F ,
Many thanks for your very affectionate letters of the 10th, 7th, 5th April, which I received all together, and which were most pleasing to
me, whose happiness so much depends upon your approval of my conduct.
You will long before this arrives have heard of the melancholy fate of Oporto. It did not in the least surprise me. I was sure it would be taken the moment it was attacked in earnest; the inevitable consequence of insubordination and anarchy. I hope you had ensured your property.
I was of course delighted to use every exertion in my power, and am very much indebted to Mr Villiers for his friendly assistance. Long before the crisis he offered me a transport or more to go round and bring away the property, which I refused in consequence of letters from Pedro Alvez stating that one ship was arrived, and another daily expected, and fearing that the expense of chartering them would be lost. At the same time I was unaware of how little resistance would be made at Braga, and the Passes of Salamonde, etc. Since that Mr Villiers wrote, as did also Noble, very strong letters to Capt. Loring of the Niobe to render every assistance, but these were too late and have since been returned to me, as also one you wrote to Chiappe with some accounts, which I opened, and have ready to deliver when an opportunity, I trust not very remote, shall enable me, as also those you send me now.
We expect to march immediately to drive that miscreant Soult out of Porto. The General went two days ago to Lisbon to meet Sir A. Wellesley, and as soon as he returns this evening or to-morrow, we shall all advance. I was left here to continue to form the Algarve Brigade, the finest in the service, and who march to-morrow morning.
I have every hope that Soult has committed himself by his rapid advance, and since detached Corps, one of which 7 to 8000 have attacked Silveira at Amarante two days successively. He has defended himself bravely as did the Regt. No. 9 (Peña Macor) commanded by Major Patrick, who came over with us, and who is, poor fellow, I fear, badly wounded, after distinguishing himself very much. Silveira expected to be attacked next morning, and will, I fear,
not be able to resist, as the Militias and Ordenança had abandoned him.
Victor has called everything to him near Merida, from Salamanca, and even Zamora, which looks as if he was close pressed, and leaves our Eastern frontier unmenaced for the present.
Cuesta has certainly reassembled 20,000 Infantry and 5500 horse and has pushed forward his advanced guards. If the Spaniards can reassemble their armies in so short a time after being dispersed they must in the end destroy the French, unless they receive great succours, which I believe impossible.
My friend Col. D’Urban, who was in the battle of Medellin, assures me he never saw any troops behave better than the Infantry, or worse than the Cavalry, of Cuesta’s army. And I think this was, as well as the loss of the army, in a great measure owing to Cuesta’s bad order of battle, in the extended line without any reserve whatever, his Cavalry in the first line advancing with the Infantry at their pace, and his having allowed the enemy to pass the Bridge of Medellin and deploy before he attacked them. He committed the same fault at Rio Seco, and suffered for it. It appears an infatuation, and as unaccountable as Victor’s not attempting to pursue the Spaniards, who fled in confusion, even with his Cavalry, which leads me to suppose he must have suffered more than we are aware of.
The enemy have occupied Valença de Tuy without resistance, Vianna, Ponte de Lima, Penafiel, and desolated these unhappy countries. On this side their posts are at Ovar and on the Vouga, and our advance on this side of that river, under Col. Trant. They have constant skirmishes which signify nothing except wasting ammunition. In Porto itself there are not above 800 or 1000 men, and they are organising a Portuguese Legion, for which they have got some men.
I was in a state of the greatest anxiety about poor dear Clara, to whom I had written several letters without receiving an answer, till yesterday, when, by a letter from my worthy friend Bettrão, I heard she with the rest of the ladies had quitted the convent on the news of the approach of the French, and their entering Porto, and had
travelled on foot over the mountains to Mesão Frio, and then to Ancede, where she now is with another nun, a friend of hers, with some of Frè Bernardo’s relations who have afforded her every protection, and he has written to them to give her every assistance. She was quite well, he tells me. I immediately despatched John Benito by the extra post, with a letter to her and 15 Pieces, besides an order for 15 more, in case of necessity, desiring him to stay with her as servant, and to remove her as a guard, in case of absolute necessity towards Lisbon, where I intend to place her with Sʳ Lucas de Siabra’s family, if she is forced to fly, till I can make some proper arrangement. If danger should not press, she is to stay where she is, till I can get away to see her myself and make other arrangements. At present the chances of war are so uncertain that I think she is better out of the convent, the marked objects of vengeance to these unprincipled invaders. Frè Bernardo, to whom I have sent John Benito, (in whom I have every confidence from his attachment to our family and honesty), will give him the orders he thinks necessary, and he will stay with her as her servant, and in case of removal guard, till I can make any other arrangement.
I have got three pretty good horses and therefore, unless you have already sent them, do not think it worth while being at the expense of sending out any more.
The Portuguese troops immediately under the instruction of British officers are coming on very well. I could have wished we had been allowed more time, but even now have great hopes of some corps. The men may be made anything we please of, with proper management, and, wherever I have had authority, I have soon settled the little mean jealousies and tricks of the officers, and without, I hope, gaining much ill will. I endeavour to combine inflexible firmness with politeness of manner. I know it is the only way to make these fellows respect you, and the mass of officers is miserable indeed. This, however, will in time be altered. Merit is the great recommendation with the General, not grey hairs and number of years service, however much to be respected, for these Subalterns, some of whom should be anything but soldiers.
I am very happy to hear the 23rd are coming out to this country, and should like much to join them, if I could with propriety. It is a fine dashing service, but this I fear is impossible, and I begin to learn the necessity of commanding my wishes and feelings. At all events I completely agree with you that it would be folly to quit the Dragoons, when I have two years longer to serve as Captn., and God knows what changes may occur in that period.
Every officer I have heard speak on the subject is much dissatisfied with the new C. in C., particularly those who most know him; and, setting H. R. Highness’s morality aside, he did incalculable good to the army, and I am sure we cannot have a better, at least that I know of, and this is the opinion of, I believe, the majority of the army.
By the new regulations of service we shall have Brigadiers at 60 years of age, and Generals in night cap and slippers, prudent and inactive as they formerly were, and as the Portuguese are. It is surprising that people can suppose a man unfit to command, till he has attained an age at which enterprise and activity generally cease. I should not be surprised to see some years hence advertised in the papers of the day restorative cordials for Generals taking commands, or patent easy-chairs for foreign service, addressed to the Generals of the British army.
I am much obliged to you for your kind attention to Custine’s letter, [12] and the advance of 10£. I would not wish you to commit yourself in cashing his bills to any considerable amount. He was once in Germany very civil to me, and I am happy to be able to repay him. I should have been better satisfied with the parole d’honneur of a gentleman, than that of a French officer, which goes very little way in my opinion. He is a prisoner, and in distress, poor fellow. I therefore in moderation will be very happy to afford him some assistance, and I hope he will not deceive the idea I have formed of him.
I have just heard that the 3rd and 4th heavy Dragoons are arrived and landed at Lisbon.
My Boots, etc., will be a valuable acquisition to me, and which, as well as the plans you are so good as to send, are arrived.
Pray give my kindest love to all at Home, from, my Dearest Father, your ever Affectionate and Dutiful Son,
W . W
I wrote two days ago to my mother, and suppose the letter will go by the same conveyance as this. Adieu.
[12] See Memoir, and p. 101.
M D F ,
L , 13th July, 1809.
Though I wrote to you a very long letter by last Packet, and am now somewhat prest for time, I will not delay thanking you for your affectionate letters of 20th of May and 1st of June, which did not reach me till yesterday, having travelled to Porto and back again after me, and in it my uncle Wm’s. very kind letter of 20th May, for which pray thank him with my kindest love, and tell him I will answer very shortly, as also Hardy’s, whose entire recovery gives me the sincerest pleasure, and I hope soon to hear that he has got a ship. At a time when so much is doing in all parts of the world, I know it must be irksome to him to be unemployed.
We were to have left this place yesterday to join the army assembled about Guarda, etc., and to advance into Spain as an army of observation, but business has prevented the General, and we only set off to-morrow morning, and proceed direct to Guarda, where we shall remain but a few days, I suppose.
Most of the English officers who came over to join the Portuguese army have accepted the Pay. I have however refused it, as I cannot see any credit in serving them for the pittance of Pay, particularly when I know they are so poor they cannot pay their own Officers. Besides, I consider that receiving Pay invalidates in some measure my claims on future promotion in my own service, and in some
degree deprives me, I consider, of the right of quitting this when I choose. I am ready, as I told the Marshal, to exert myself for the service of this Country without being any weight or charge to them. They have certainly some claims to my service from the kindness my family has for a long series of years experienced, and if H.R.H. hereafter chooses to reward me in the end, he can do so, without my being an expense to his Government, and, if he does not, I am pretty tolerably indifferent, and shall be satisfied with having done my duty. I certainly very much dislike this service and their mean intrigue and absurd presumption, which shades their good qualities, and would therefore avoid any possible reason for my being kept with it longer than suits my convenience and I consider my duty requires. I hope you therefore will approve of my having declined any emolument for my services.
The conduct of the English Government in refusing the step of rank to those Officers who have come out, or, being here appointed, have joined the Army, is very extraordinary. They now have only an additional step in the Portuguese, and the pay of both. I am astonished any British officer will come out on these terms.
I will write to you whenever an opportunity occurs. In the meantime, my Dearest Father, give my kindest love to all at Home, and believe me Affectionately Your Dutiful Son, W . W .
I do not send the certificate of horses lost at Coruña, as we have written home for the printed form, when I shall know how it is to be filled up. Adieu.
L , 10th August, 1809
M D F ,
An unfortunate accident of having dislocated the knuckles of my right hand, and having broke one of the small bones, obliges me to apply to my friend Captn. Souza to serve as an amanuensis. It being
now nearly a month since the accident happened, I am afraid you will be very anxious to hear from me. I am in other respects perfectly well, and so far recovered from this, that I but yesterday returned from travelling night and day to the English Hd. Quarters post and back again. I have not yet, however, quite the use of my hand.
You will long before this have heard of the battle of Talavera perhaps the most glorious ever gained, if we consider the disproportion of numbers. Not having had the good fortune to be present I can give no further particulars than you will have seen by Sir Arthur’s despatch. The attacks were most vigorous and repeated by upwards of 40,000 men in heavy columns, first against the left, then the right, and afterwards along the whole British line which was occupied by about 19,000 men. Nothing however could overcome the steadiness and gallantry of our troops. After having been engaged the 26th and 27th, the greatest part of the night between the 27th and 28th, and from daybreak till night that day, the enemy was completely repulsed, leaving 11,000 killed and wounded on the field, and the next morning retired 4 leagues to Sebola. Our loss was also very considerable, about 4500 killed and wounded. You will be sorry to hear that the 23rd lost half their men in a charge, and among a great many officers wounded are Capt. Howard badly, Drake ditto. He was taken and afterwards released by the enemy, Allen wounded and taken, D. W. Russell slightly, Frankland slightly, Lieut. Anderson badly, and 226 men killed and wounded. I saw Col. Seymour and Dance, who are quite well. The Regt. was ordered to charge two columns of the enemy, who were deploying, but who unfortunately had time to form square without there being time for the order being revoked, and they unfortunately persevered in attempting an attack which it was impossible should succeed.
The British army as usual has been deprived of the fruits of their glorious victory; for Soult, Ney, and Mortier, having penetrated from Castille to Placencia with 34,000 men, added to the impossibility of placing any dependance upon the Spaniards, who during and after the battle of Talavera had remained, except their Artillery, entirely spectators, with 20,000 men, exposing the British army to finding itself between two fires, besides entirely cutting off its retreat and
communications with Portugal, obliged Sir Arthur to retire by the bridge of Arçobispo to the other side of the Tagus; that of Almaraz was already occupied by the enemy. Cuesta, who was left at Talavera to keep the army of Victor in check, I suppose not feeling very confident in his troops, set off after Sir Arthur, thus abandoning all such of our wounded, who could not crawl along the road, to the enemy, who however, it must be confessed, on all occasions have treated the English prisoners with great humanity.
We have moved forward with the Portuguese army to occupy the strong passes near this place, and assist, as far as we may be able with our small force of 12,000 men, the British and Spanish armies, the former of which occupies a position on the South Bank of the Tagus at Almaraz, the latter at Arçobispo. The names of these passes are Perales and Gata and are at four leagues distance from Coria. The French have advanced towards Talavera from Placencia. Our army are in very good spirits, and will, I have no doubt, maintain their character better than their neighbours, in whom, you know, I never had much confidence.
I am happy to tell you that Jack Prince is well, also Genl. Fane. Poor Milman is badly wounded, as is Sir W. Sheridan.
I am much obliged to you for the boots and my glass, which I have received, and which I was in great want of.
I will write to you again the moment I am able, and in the meantime I have only to add that I remain, my dear Father, with love to all at home, Your very affectionate Son,
W . W , A.D.C.
I beg you will believe my hand is really of no consequence and nearly well, nor do I find it a bit the worse for a ride of fifty hours de suite to the British Head Quarters and 36 back, and I am otherwise in as good health as I ever was.
L H , August 13
I have been unable to forward this letter before to-day and have merely to add that my hand is much better. We continue near these passes, though we made the other day a movement to Salteros, but
retired again to the same position, and established our Head Quarters at this place. I believe Soult’s, Ney’s, etc., army are moving again into Castille by Baños without deigning to take notice of us. The cowardly Spaniards have suffered the enemy to pass the bridge at Arçobispo with very little resistance, and now occupy the passes in which I left the British army, on its right flank.
Every day convinces me more strongly that the fate of these countries depends entirely upon Austria, of which, you may well imagine, we are most anxious for positive accounts. We have had a French bulletin with accounts of an armistice, and other rumours of a peace. But as they have all come from the French, I trust unfounded. I hope you will let all your arrangements, with regard to Portugal, depend upon the successes in Germany.
Yrs. most affectionately, W . W .
M D M ,
S , August 18, 1809
I take the opportunity of being able to write to give you some account of myself and our proceedings. My hand, as you will see by my being able to write, is nearly well, though still weak. I suffered a good deal from it, from not applying the proper remedies, and supposing I had merely dislocated two of my knuckles, for my hand and arm had swelled so much, from travelling day after day in the excessive heat, that it was not till I arrived at the English Head Quarters express a month after, and consulted an English surgeon, that I discovered that one of the small bones in the back of the hand was broken. Nature, however, has joined it, and I trust in a few weeks I shall be entirely as strong as ever. It has been a serious inconvenience, particularly when near the enemy, and expecting to be engaged. Except in writing, however, it never has prevented my
duty, though I confess sometimes, after a sleepless night, I could almost have cried from pain and vexation.
I dictated a letter to my father from Acebo and Los Hoyos, fearing you would be very anxious at not hearing from me, which I hope has been received. We have now made a forward movement to Moralega in order to straiten the enemy in his foraging. They constantly dislodged a post we had at Coria, where they came for provisions, nor was it in our power to prevent them, and the inhabitants, who had not fled, either from fear or treason, seemed more ready to supply them than us, so much so in every direction, added to the ignorance and want of arrangement in our Commissaries, that our troops have suffered greatly from want of provisions, particularly bread. The selfish unfriendly conduct of the Spaniards high and low, not giving us any hopes of a supply, Marshal Beresford has been forced to retreat towards this place, on his way to Castello Branco, in order to feed his troops, who are in great distress, without even seeing the enemy, or his making the least forward movement towards us, except in small foraging parties, to Coria, near where they have caught a valuable convoy of English hospital stores, I cannot help thinking, in a great measure from the excessive ignorance and want of energy in the Purveyor, who was seven days considering whether the French would come there or not.
As to the conduct of the Spaniards, both to the English and this army, it has been most shameful. I shall not enlarge on this disagreeable subject. It is enough to say both armies are very much irritated. They have every wish that we should fight for them, but do not deign to treat us with common civility, or our men, when sick or wounded, with common humanity. They conceal their provisions, drive away their cattle, and when possible escape themselves, leaving either friends or foes to subsist as well as they can, complaining however most loudly and bitterly if a single cabbage is taken without leave. When our men have been starving they have refused to sell even a loaf, and if they did, at a most exorbitant price. They will rob your very stores almost in your sight, and, though every town and village expects you are to stay for its defence, they will not,
except forced, contribute in any way to assist. This is the complaint, and universal in both English and Portuguese armies, and as for their soldiers fighting, I never thought they would. They never have. The French treat them with the utmost contempt. 5300 and odd brave soldiers of the British were killed or wounded at Talavera without 45,000 Spaniards, who were present, moving in any way to their support; and since, 3000 wounded of these were abandoned by that old brute Cuesta in Talavera, contrary to Sir A. Wellesley’s orders or intention, and without any attack on the part of the enemy.
This obstinate surly old ignorant fellow is, thank God, removed. He was, to say the best of him, quite superannuated, and so violent and obstinate that everybody feared him but his enemies.
There never was such folly as sending an army into Spain again. The character of the Spaniards is so selfish, jealous, and proud, with all the surliness of Englishmen, and not a spark of their good qualities, that a foreign army in their country must always risk being abandoned. They, besides, will not fight for themselves, and it is impossible England alone can defend them. This picture is perhaps strong, and I really feel much irritated against them, but I am sure it is the opinion of almost every individual. The inhabitants fly in all directions at the approach of the enemy, and whenever your army comes, they fancy the enemy are coming also. You are therefore unable to procure subsistence, and of course equally so to defend them. The magistrates fly, to avoid the trouble of providing you, as everything is concealed. All the towns we have been in are nearly abandoned, and we have been forced to break into empty houses for a lodging. In short, war in any shape is a horrid scourge to the inhabitants.
We are in very low spirits at the bad accounts from Austria. A peace in that country will decide the fate of these most undoubtedly We may prolong the war and sacrifice many lives, but I am convinced that it will be to no purpose, and even should Sir A.W., who, it is reported, is to be made Commander in Chief in Spain, and a most clever fine fellow as ever existed, be able to avert their ultimate destruction, another brilliant victory, or even more, if the Tyrant overruns Germany, and Austria falls, cannot alter my opinion,
and I shall doubly regret every British life that is lost after that country makes peace.
Poor Whittingham, who is a Brigadier in the Spanish Service, was shot through the cheek and hurt severely, while endeavouring most gallantly to rally a Spanish regiment of cavalry. He is however doing well. I am much annoyed at not being able to get any account of Harvey. Milman is badly wounded. These are the only officers I have heard of that you know. Fremantle is well.
C B , August 20th.
We arrived here yesterday, and will, I hope, remain some days to refresh our poor patient half-starved soldiers, and observe the enemy’s motions. A strong corps of theirs forced the Pass of Baños defended by Sir R. Wilson and about 3000 men, Portuguese and Spaniards. They resisted the whole day, but had no guns, and were forced to retreat to avoid being surrounded.
It is impossible to judge yet of what the plans of the French can be, particularly this Corps, which has re-entered Castile and marched towards Salamanca, leaving 10 or 12,000 men at Placencia; nor have I the least idea of what Sir A. Wellesley’s intentions are. I over and over again wish I was with his brave army. It is wretched unsatisfactory work being with this; nothing but constant vexation and disgust, particularly of their Officers. The men, poor devils, are patient and obedient, voilà tout, I think, yet the British Officers with the regiments think they would fight. I am convinced this would depend entirely on circumstances, and if they do unfortunately get beaten, I fear they will at any rate not hazard it again. What a different army I was with a year ago! How gloriously employed where with such soldiers! If Austria makes peace, I shall soon have the happiness again of embracing my beloved family, for the game will be soon settled in these countries.
I think the French will move towards Zamora, and threaten Portugal immediately, to draw away our army from this quarter, and Sir A. W., if possible, out of Spain, to protect it.
Adieu, my dearest Mother, kindest love to my Father, etc., etc., etc., from Your Ever Affectionate Son,
