Microsoft Word and Enhancing Your Teacher Webpages
Wyo In-Service June 22, 2006
www.minich.com/education/presentations/advancedwordandwebpage.php
Take your knowledge of Microsoft Word to the next step. Learn more features at an intermediate/advanced level. Also, learn ways to make your Teacher Webpage even more visually appealing and functional.
8-10 session
10-10:15 break
10:15-12:15 session
12:15-12:45 lunch
12:45-2:45 session
MS Word -
- inserting text boxes with text and dragging around the document
- removing border from a textbox and changing background color and fill
- adding library clip art to textboxes
- resizing clip art
- cropping clip art using the cropping tool on the picture toolbar
- saving graphics from images.google.com and inserting them into a textbox (or copying and pasting into the textbox)
- creating a table
- resizing rows and columns
- sorting text found in a column of a table
- downloading templates from Office Online
- saving a Word file as a pdf
Resources
- Intermediate MS Word - clip art, WordArt, customized tabs & margins, headers & footers, tables, columns, using online templates
- Advanced MS Word - printing envelopes & labels, form letters (i.e. mail merge), macros, custom styles, reviewing pane, sorting data, creating web pages, protect a document, create forms, creating templates
- Creating Newsletters - using newsletter wizard, using templates, creating newsletter from scratch, clip art
Enhancing Teacher Webpage
- View teacher webpages made by fellow teachers - share examples of features that you like
- Log in at www.wyoarea.org/private
- Adding common pages
- adding checkbox to desired common page listing, be sure to click "Save Changes" & then clicking "Update Your Pages"
- creating & deleting your own additional page by including a custom page title
- updating content in the WYSIWYG View
(If you use a Macintosh, you won't see the toolbar or the WYSIWYG & Code View tab)
- difference between Paragraph, Heading, Subheading, Monospaced text formats
- alignment buttons
- block indent & outdent
- bulleting
- bold/italics/underline
- cut/copy/paste
- undo/redo
- create hyperlink (must type "http://")
- updating content in the HTML Code View
- limitations of HTML including placement of text and images on the page
- basic tags including <p>, centering, blockquote, <ul>, <li>, <strong>, <em>, <u>,
- Adding Images
to your photo album
- obtaining pictures from the Web or a digital camera
- creating pictures using Paint or any other available graphics program
- cropping & editing pictures beforehand with Paint
- uploading pictures to your photo album page & adding captions
- Using Save As Web Page (.htm) menu command in MS Word, opening the file in Notepad, and then pasting all of the HTML found between the <body> tags into the Code View (if you have a Mac, just paste into the only view that you have)
- creating a simple page with Notepad
- creating a simple page with Word
- open the .htm file in Notepad and identify & copy the necessary HTML into the teacher webpage
- preview the result
- using tables in Word to space things across the page
- Saving as a pdf from within MS Word or another free website
- building a link to the pdf