GEOLOGY 2500:  January 8, 2008.

Word stuff:

View - Toolbars - allows you to view toolbars.  Word saves your toolbar configuration (upon close) and these will pop up next time you open Word on the same desktop.

Tools - Customize - Commands allows you to add icons to the tool bar. Example: superscript, subscript, equation editor, insert symbol.

    Equation editor (very useful for students taking technical courses): Demonstrate equation tool bar, Styles, "Border" and so on.

    Insert - symbol.

Insert - Footnotes; Endnotes; Page numbers; Header/Footer.
    Insert - Autotext - Footer
    Insert - Reference - Footnotes

Tables - toolbar: demonstrate features

Clip art: Insert - Picture - Clip Art will either take you to a dialog window from which "art" can be obtained to insert into your document or give you a search for keyword dialog box. Note how images can be resized and how text can be wrapped (select picture; then Format - Picture - Wrapping) around the picture - and how a 'frame' can be added (Format - Borders and Shading).

Crop and change picture lighting and contrast in Word

Change Font, Size (etc.): Can be done within document, do not over-do it. You can even change font colors.

Drawing tools: demonstrate. Note: many tool products do not translate into .html code. In other words, footnotes and drawings made with the drawing tool do not convert into Web page footnotes and drawings.  

Word Art demo.

Assignment: demonstrate that you can do each of the following: into a Word document -

(1) Insert clip art and a picture from the Web (anything from 'Nature' - animals, rocks, sunsets, etc.).  How to capture an image from a Web site?  Right click the image and "Copy" to clipboard, then open your Word document and "Paste".  Write a brief note telling me what the picture shows and why you selected this particular picture.

(2) Type a (short) line from Shakespeare (you pick it), each word in a different font and/or size.

(3) Write 2 equations using the equation editor, involving a square root, quotient, exponents and subscripts. Wrap each in a border.  Look up the equations in your favorite physics, chemistry or statistics textbook, or find something online.

(4) Demonstrate some super^script and sub_script; also, insert some Greek characters  (for example - Π ρ π Θ - you pick your favorite).  Write some words (in whichever foreign language you have studied) that require special letters (accents, ~) not used in The King's English.  For example: la piña; ¿Cómo estás?  Note: Microsoft Word allows you to lead and write in languages other than English!  Spell and grammar checks can be enabled, once the dictionary (etc) have been loaded. 

    Spanish shortcuts from English keyboard:  Ctrl - Shift - ~ - n results in ñ, Ctrl - ' - (vowel) results in vowel with accent.

(5) Draw a frame and a smiley face.  No doubt you can do a better job than I.

(6) Write your name inside an oval.  No, this is not my name, just a line from one of my favorite sci-fi novels.

Get everything onto 2 or fewer pages. Do not forget to include your name and the title Word Lab 1. Due at 1200 hours on January 11.  Please attach your Word document (after closing Word) to email and send it to me.

Note: attaching a file that is still open to an email message frequently messes up.  Close a file before attaching that file to email.

Extra credit: Selecting a new language (for the really fluent).  Write a paragraph in that language.  Tools - Language - Set Language (your computer may have to download resources from the server in order to write in the language you select).

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