Reviewing Go to Help / Microsoft Word Help / What’s New and select some text and paste into a new document (File / New) Make five spelling and punctuation errors. Check that the Reviewing toolbar is showing (View / Toolbars (check Reviewing) Click the Track Changes button so it is in (move your mouse across the icons and balloon help will indicate the name of the button) Fix all the errors Highlight a phrase, click the comments icon on the toolbar and insert a comment. Save as ***review, where the *** are your initials
Mail Merge Parent Letter Create Excel Document with Columns: Name, Address, City, State, Zip. Fill in 3 rows of data. Save to Desktop as mm Open Word / File / Project Gallery / Choose Letter Wizard (leave Recipient tab blank) Tools / Data Merge Manager Main Document - Create Data Source – Get Data / Open Data Source / (find Excel file) Ignore Word Field Merge Field – drag and drop data onto Main Document Preview – Click > and cycle records Save as ***mm Merge – Merge to New Document You can edit each letter in the merged document and/or print
Getting and Editing Images Open Safari and go to (47 th anniversary) Right click on collage image and choose “Save Image to Desktop” Double click image (it opens in Preview) Place cursor at upper left of small image you want and click and drag to lower right Tools / Crop Tools / Image Correction Save as ***image File / Grab / Selection Note: On the PC you have Photo Editor
Project Gallery and Newsletters Open MS Word and Select Newsletters from the Project Gallery (File / Project Gallery) Select Rule Edit Information Select image Insert / Image Choose NASA image you cropped Edit text
Newsletters from Scratch Open MS Word / Blank Document Format / Columns (choose 2) Go to Help / Microsoft Word Help / What’s New and select some text Type the word “text” in the empty document and format it to font size 10 Edit / Paste Special (unformatted text) Insert / Break / Column Break Go to the end of your text and press return twice. Insert / Break / Section Break (Continuous) Format / Columns (choose 3)
Newsletters from Scratch (cont) Type the word “text” in your document and format it to font size 8 Use Edit / Paste Special again to add unformatted text Insert / Break / Column Break (twice for 3 columns do divide text evenly) Insert / Picture / Clip Art or From File Resize by grabbing handle on lower right of the picture and dragging to the desired size. Make the picture smaller than the text region. Right Click / Format Picture / Layout (choose tight wrapping) To move the picture, first select it and then drag and click or use arrow keys for fine adjustment Save as ***news
Fun with MS Word Select a text block in your document View / Toolbars / Speech Click to icon to read selected text View / Notebook Layout Record your message Play it back