Functional Word February 15, 2007
Posted by admin in : February 2007 Professional Development, Word , trackbackScenario: You need to create a document with images for a presentation for your students.
Open the word document in U:\2007-Feb-PD-Day\FunctionalWord.doc
Save it as ‘Your Name’ in your My Documents directory
Change the Page Margins to be 1” top, bottom, left and right
File ->Page Setup
Bold the title and make it larger than 24 points
Format -> Font or using the Toolbar
Change the font of the document to a font of your choice.
Select All (Ctrl+A or Edit -> Select All) and change font using Format -> Font or using the Toolbar
Insert a clip art picture into your document. Move it to the place where you want it, have the text wrap around it.
Picture > Clip Art, Search for image of your choice, Double click to insert
Click on your picture and hold the left mouse button down while you move the image
Right Click on image -> Format Picture -> Click on Layout Tab and Select Square as the Wrapping Style
6. Insert a digital photo into your document from U:\2007-Feb-PD-Day\insert_image.jpg (or an image of your choice). Resize it and move it to the place in the document where you want it, lastly wrap the text around it.
Select Insert -> Picture -> From File, Look in directory above -> Select insert_image.jpg and click on Insert
Click on the image, select one of the corners and make the image smaller
c. Right Click on image -> Format Picture -> Click on Layout Tab and Select Square as the Wrapping Style
7. Set up document for Tracking Changes
a. Go to Tools (you may have to wait 10 seconds for the whole menu to appear) -> Track Changes
8. Save your document in U:\2007-Feb-PD-Day\YOUR NAME.doc and close.
9. Find a partner, ask them to open your document, edit some of the text by deleting and copying and pasting, insert a Comment, and save and close it.
a. Insert comments by going to Insert -> Comment and edit document by deleting and adding text
10. Open the document, and view their changes.
11. Accept or Reject their changes
a. Insert comments by going to Insert -> Comment and edit document by deleting and adding text
12. Now, accept or reject the changes by viewing the Accept or Reject toolbar.
a. Toolbars -> Reviewing
c. Accept or Reject the Comment using the
(Accept) or
(Reject) icon
13. Now Save your document one last time.
14. Advanced: Insert a Table in your document and move some text and an image into the table
a. Click on Table -> Insert -> Table
b. Select 2 columns and 1 row
c. Select and drag text and an image into the table
At this point, you should go to Atomic Learning Word Tutorials:
Intro: http://www.atomiclearning.com/word_2003_intro
Intermediate: http://www.atomiclearning.com/word_2003_interm
Advanced: http://www.atomiclearning.com/word_2003_adv
Browse the topics and see which tutorials interest you and review one. If you have questions, please check with one of the technology department members or students as they circulate the room.



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The word workshop was very helpful. I will need to practice the methods of changing the word document. However, the skills learned will be important to reviewing student papers. Teaching art history, I especially value the method of adding images and editing the paper for the student to review.