Skills in Microsoft Word	Lesson Plans/ Ideas for Lesson Plans that Incorporate those Skills	Tutorials for those Skills (these tutorials cover a variety of versions of Word and you may have to adapt the instructions to fit your version...and sometimes they just don't work because of the difference in versions)
Basic Document Handling open, save, save as, print, print preview, new (project gallery), page setup view standard toolbar		Bay City Public Schools in Michigan has a nice tutorial with screen shots http://www.bcschools.net/staff/WordHelp.htm From Shauna Kelly http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/concepts/starttyping/ Though designed for MS Word 97, much of this 16 page introduction to Word still applies http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=Word97Tutorial
Formatting Text font, font size, bold, italic, underline, highlight, font color strikethrough double strike through, superscript, subscript; shadow, outline, emboss, engrave; small caps, all caps, hidden; underline style, underline color text effects/animate text (marching ants, blinking, Las Vegas lights, sparkle text, shimmer, and more)	Hyperbole, Idiom, Noun, Oh My! Answer Key for "Hyperbole, Idiom, Noun, Oh My!" Mean, Median, Mode Make Words Standout Using the Drop Cap	This company is trying to sell a subscription to their more advanced  tutorials, but weed through the ads and you'll find the needed information http://tutorials.freeskills.com/read/query/Word%202000/id/243 Dynamic Zone has simple tutorials for introductory skills including some of the text formatting skills listed http://www.dzfx.com/workshops/list/2/Microsoft_Word-Office-XP/ The University at Albany (New York) offers this introduction to Word http://www.albany.edu/cetl/resources/howtos/word.html internet4classrooms offers this information on formatting text http://www.internet4classrooms.com/msword_toolbar_format.htm At the bottom of this helpful page from Florida Gulf Coast University is a nice description of using the format painter http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/word/text.html How-to from Microsoft on "text effects" or "animation" http://www.microsoft.com/Education/TipSpecialEffect.aspx How to apply the "drop cap" (dropped initial capital letter) http://ict.cas.psu.edu/training/howto/msword/DropCapWD.htm
Moving Text cut, copy, paste Drag and Drop (double click, triple click, highlight first) Keyboard Shortcuts	Drag & Drop Drag & Drop Ideas from the U.K.	From About.com http://wordprocessing.about.com/od/wordquicktips/qt/dragdrop.htm A list of keyboard shortcuts and tutorial on customizing them in Word; many keyboard shortcuts are consistent throughout all Windows software http://atto.buffalo.edu/registered/Tutorials/msword/keyboard%20shortcuts.doc
Page Setup portrait / landscape Columns column break WordArt Clip Art & other Graphics layout, size	Make a Bookmark Make a Popup Greeting Card Resource for lots of text to fill columns	How to create columns on a page (not in a table) http://www.ehow.com/how_10080_add-columns-microsoft.html
Tables insert rows table properties row height column width Graphics inserting graphics formatting graphics (size, text around the graphic, border,...)	Vocabulary Cards "Descriptive Cards" (cards with photo/graphic and descriptive information and statistics)
Find and Replace	Never Say Said MadLibs Other Find and Replace lesson ideas
More Tables custom borders, shading cell margins & page margins merge cells resize columns set row height insert/delete row or column	I Have/Who Has cards Pair 'Em Up cards
Track Changes track changes, comments Forms filling in forms making/editing forms Lists bulleted & numbered lists; outline	Reflect
Drawing Tools AutoShapes	Make a Snowflake
Letter Wizard	Write a Letter to an Author
Thesaurus	Using the Thesaurus
Word as a Baby Database also a Baby Spreadsheet convert text to table convert table to text sort summation bringing in a chart from Excel--as a graphic, as an embedded spreadsheet