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TECH TIPS - MICROSOFT WORD Viewing Microsoft Word Documents Typing a document on MS Word sometimes means staring at the text for long periods of time. MS Word provides several different ways to view your documents so you don’t strain your eyes. Normal Layout: Great when you want to write in a clean screen without worrying about headers, footers, or page numbers getting in your way. Web Layout: Shows you what your document looks like if displayed as a Web page. Print Layout: Shows you exactly how your document will look when printed, including headers and footers. Outline: Comes in handy when you don’t have an idea of what to write and you want to create an outline to help organize your thoughts. Hold Word's AutoCorrect feature in check. Do you get annoyed when you hit Enter/Return while typing in Microsoft Word and the next letter is automatically capitalized -- even if you don't want it to be? Have you ever misspelled a word and had MS Word try to spell it correctly for you -- but given you a different word altogether? Go to Tools>AutoCorrect and uncheck any boxes of categories you'd rather have Word leave up to you to correct! Place Clip Art Wherever You Want It. Are you having trouble placing clip art in the right place in a Microsoft Office document? Double-click the image in the document, select the Layout tab in the Format Picture window, click Tight, and then click OK. CHANGING THE DEFAULT FONT Tired of either creating all your Word documents in Times New Roman or having to change the font every time you begin a new document? Here's an easy way to change the default font to have all new documents automatically created in the font of your choice.
Using Word Wisely Sometimes helpful, sometimes just plain annoying…Microsoft Word's AutoSummarize and AutoCorrect tools can play an effective role in the K-12 classroom -- if you remember they're not perfect and that you tell them what to do and what NOT to do. Learn how to make the tools work for you! What's the Point? Microsoft Word's Auto summarize feature can help students who are struggling to find the main topic in their reading selections or to organize their writing. Open a Word document (or copy and paste text from the Internet into a Word document), then go to Tools>Auto summarize and choose Highlight Key Points. Word will highlight what it thinks are the main points of the text. Because Word is not perfect, however, and its choices might not reflect your choices, teach students to use this feature only as a guide. What's the Trick? Instead of typing the same word, phrase, or title over and over again, let Word type it for you. Click Tools>Auto correct, and select the Auto correct tab. In the Replace blank, type an abbreviation for the oft-typed phrase (for example, "8g"). In the with blank, type the complete phrase (for example, "8th Period Geometry Class"). Click Add and OK. Now, whenever you type "8g," Word will replace it with "8th Period Geometry Class." What's the Problem? Do you get annoyed when you hit Enter/Return while typing in Microsoft Word and the next letter is automatically capitalized -- even if you don't want it to be? Have you ever misspelled a word and had MS Word try to spell it correctly for you -- but given you a different word altogether? Go to Tools>AutoCorrect and uncheck any boxes of categories you'd rather have Word leave up to you to correct!
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