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Special Feature Presented by Christine Girtain (Toms River)
Summer Institute Science Web Labs (Word
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Continuing
the Monster Project:
Skills:
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Create new files.
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Open existing files.
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Working with images:
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Resizing
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Using palettes
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Saving vs. Save As…
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Renaming
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Toggling between two Windows (Word and Paint)
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Inserting Images in Word
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Working with Fonts, Colors, Formatting
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Inserting Tables – using tables to create
professional layouts (learn to configure borders, cell
format, etc.)
Since
we cannot save to disks, we will just practice other skills
using images that are ready.
- Go to Start/ Programs/ Microsoft Word and Open a New
Document.
- Write a Title (Example: The Rock Monster!)
- Select the Title by highlighting it. You will do the
following with it: Center, Change Font, Change Font
Size, Make it Bold, Change the Color of the Font.
- After you are happy with the Title, just click outside
of it to unselect. Hit Enter to go to the next line.
- Insert a Table (Table/ Insert Table/ Choose 2 Columns
and 1 Row). You will change it's properties to help you
work with advanced formatting (useful both for Word and
Web Publishing!).
- Right-click on the Table and choose from the Menu that
appears Table Properties...
- You will do the following: Center, make it 80%,
increase Cell Padding and Cell Spacing, make the Cell
Borders zero. Click OK in the dialogue box you were
working with. What happened to the Table?
- This is the best way to format a text with words and
pictures in a way that they can be put side by side and
all viewers see your final product in the same way you
want them to.
Now you are ready to insert an image into your document:
- Go
to
http://www.monsterexchange.org/minds-eye/
, and browse through the gallery of monsters from
previous years.
- When
you find a monster you like, click on the image to see
it larger.
- Right-click
on top of the image and choose from the menu that
appears: Save Picture As...
- Choose
to save the image to the Desktop.
- Go
back to your Word document.
- Click
inside the left cell. Go to Insert / Picture / From
File... / Go to the Desktop / Find your image and click
on it / Click on Insert.
- If
you want to centralize the image in the cell,
right-click inside the cell, choose Cell Alignment, and
choose the alignment you wish (for images, the best one
is the centralized alignment).
- Now
click inside the right cell and write up how to draw
that monster you chose. You can also align the text
within the cell by following the same procedure.
Linking
images and text to the web:
- To
create a link, click once on your image to select it.
- Click
on the hyperlink icon:
- Type in the URL you want to link it to. You can type
in
http://www.monsterexchange.org
if you like.
- Click OK.
- Your image is now linked to a website!
- To create a text link, if you write the URL and press
space bar or enter, Word will automatically create the
link for you.
- If you want to link a word, select the word by
highlighting it with your mouse, click on the hyperlink
icon, and type in the URL you want that word to send the
reader to, click OK.
- It's as simple as that!
- Save your document.
- If you want to transform it into a web page, just
choose File/ Save as Web Page...
- To view your new web page, open a browser, click on
File/ Open/ and find your new page.
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