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Skills in Microsoft Word
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Lesson Plans/ Ideas for Lesson Plans that
Incorporate those Skills
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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, but the concepts are good)
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Formatting Text
formatting toolbar, 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
Format Paint Brush!
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Hyperbole,
Idiom,
Noun, Oh My!
Answer Key for "Hyperbole,
Idiom, Noun, Oh My!"
Mean, Median, Mode
Make Words Standout
Using
the Drop Cap
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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 apply the "drop cap" (dropped initial capital letter)
http://ict.cas.psu.edu/training/howto/msword/DropCapWD.htm
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2
(.5 hr.) |
Moving Text
cut, copy, paste
Drag and Drop (double click, triple click, highlight first)
Keyboard Shortcuts
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Drag & Drop
Drag
& Drop Ideas from the U.K.
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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 (retrieved 5/2005 from
http://atto.buffalo.edu/registered/Tutorials/msword/keyboard%20shortcuts.doc)
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3
(1 hr.) |
Columns
column break
Page Setup
portrait / landscape, margins, apply to page/ document
WordArt
Clip Art & other Graphics
inserting graphics,
formatting graphics (size, text around the graphic, border,...)
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Make
a
Bookmark
Make a Popup
Greeting Card
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How to add columns
http://www.ehow.com/how_10080_add-columns-microsoft.html
Florida Gulf Coast University has this tutorial for Word 2000 on inserting clip art:
http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/word/graphics.html
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4
(1 hr.) |
Tables
insert table, insert rows or columns,
table properties,
row height,
column width
borders and shading
Graphics inside Tables
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Presidential Bookmarks
Make your own checkerboard
Make your own Bingo vocabulary card
Greek Mythology
The following are all teacher support materials that use tables:
Vocabulary
Cards
Descriptive Cards
Pair 'em Up States & Capitals
I Have/ Who Has Cards
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Florida Gulf Coast University has this tutorial for Word 2000 on creating and using tables:
http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/word/tables.html
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5
(.5 hr.) |
Find and Replace
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MadLibs
--words
--story
Group Check List
Find and Replace lesson ideas
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6
(.25 hr.) |
Track Changes
track changes, comments
Forms
filling in forms
making/editing forms
Lists
bulleted & numbered lists; outline
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The Writing Process
Reflect
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7
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Drawing Tools
AutoShapes
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Make a Snowflake
Creating a Timeline
Make Your Own Board Game
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8
(.25 hr.) |
Letter Wizard
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Write a Letter to
an Author
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9
(.25 hr.) |
Thesaurus
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Using the Thesaurus
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10
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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 |
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Fun Font Stuff
text effects/ animate text (marching ants, blinking, Las
Vegas lights, sparkle text, shimmer, and more)
Header / Footer
Auto Text
Page Break / Section Break
Paragraph formatting / Keep text together |
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How-to from Microsoft on "text effects" or "animation"
http://www.microsoft.com/Education/TipSpecialEffect.aspx |
