Top Songs – Miss Koppejan

Instructions:

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Getting Started

Start by typing out the page heading “Top Songs: 1980” and [Enter] to the next line.

Go to the Insert tab and add a Table … 3×6.

In the first row add “Artists” and “Songs” for the row headings, and in the first column add numbers 1-5 as shown below…

Add Songs

Choose Year

Option #1: follow my example, 1980 songs

Air Supply – “All Out of Love”
Barbra Streisand – “Woman in Love”
Billy Joel – “It’s Still Rock and Roll To Me”
Blondie – “Call Me”
Christopher Cross – “Sailing”
Diana Ross – “Upside Down”
KC & The Sunshine Band – “Please Don’t Go”
Kenny Rogers – “Lady”
Lipps Inc – “Funkytown”
Neil Diamond – “Love on the Rocks”
Olivia Newton John – “Magic”
Pink Floyd – “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2”
Queen – “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
Queen – “Another One Bites the Dust”
Rupert Holmes – “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)”

Option #2: choose a different year

Click on any year below. This will open an info page with the top songs from that year at the top. Scroll down to see the list of songs…

1980

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

If you want to do another year, use the navigation bar at the top to go to that page…

At the top of your starting document, change “1980” to the year you are focusing on.

Copy Song Text

Choose any 5 songs in any order you like from the year info page. Select the singer and copy into the “Artists” column; select the song and copy into the “Songs” column.

Select everything on the page (CTRL+A) and Clear Formatting.

Format Text

Default Font

Select the entire page (CTRL+A) and set the default font to Courier New, size 20.

If any of the songs are more than 4 lines, reduce the font size for that song name down to 14.

Page Heading

Select the page heading and set the font type to Agent Orange and size 36.

Table Headings

Select the first row and set the font type to Agent Orange, size 24.
Select the first column and set to Agent Orange, size 36.

You should now have something like this…

Column Widths

Click in the 1^st column.
Go to the Table Layout tab and set the width to 1.3″

Click in the 2^nd column; set width to 2.6″

Click in the 3rd column; set width to 2.6″

Your table should now look like this…

Row Heights

Select just the song rows from #1 to #5… then set the row height to 1.4″

Spacing

Now make sure you are seeing the Ruler. If not, go to VIEW>… and check the box for Ruler.

Bottom Margin

Hover over the Ruler where the margin stars (white/grey), when you get a 2-pointed arrow and it says Bottom Margin, pull down to the 1/2″ mark.