Creating a Webpage with WORD – 2010

To begin this portion of your project you will need to have ALL of your research complete, pictures scanned and/or saved to a folder.

Open a Word Document. Click on the View Tab. Select Web Layout on the far left side. Click on the Windows icon circle and slide down to Save As. Change the Save As File Type to Webpage. Save to your Flash Drive.

To open your project from your saved file. Open WORD, click on File, click on Open and navigate to your saved Webpage file. If you just click the file, it will open as a webpage; this is great for checking your progress, not so great for actually working on the file.

Step 1. Set UpWorking from the back forward; the first step is to select your background. Click on Page Layout Tab and then click Page Color down arrow. A light color back ground with darker writing will probably be your best choice; or make a selection from the Fill Effects to get a wood or marble look.

When using word to create webpages, all text and pictures need to be inserted into a table. Click on the Insert tab, click on the arrow below Table and highlight a 3 x 6 table. If you need more rows than are showing, it is easy to add rows; click outside the table on the right hand side just above where you need a new row, hit enter. Or, in the last cell of your table click tab and new row should appear at the bottom.

Step 2.5. Formatting your TableRight click on your table, select Borders and Shading. Click on the Page Border Tab. Change the line width, color and design to enhance your webpage. You can even select no border.

Step 3. Cell Splitting or MergingMerging cells. Highlight (or select) the cells you want to merge and then right click on the highlighted area. Pull down and click on merge cells! Presto! Can click undo to put back. Splitting cells. Right click in the cell you would like to split. Select split cells. Chose from the options on how you would like to split the cell.

Click in a single cell or click-hold-and drag through all of the cells you would like to change the text alignment. Use the cell alignment under right click to position your text in your cells.

Step 2. Tables

HINT: It is VERY important that you DO NOT pull the new table out to make the cells bigger. Let the things you put into the cells expand the table. Do not push your right margin beyond 9 inches.

HINT: If you will merge cells, placing your Word Art and pictures before typing in your cells, it will be easier to see where you need to split or merge cells for your text.

HINT: Every time you do something “cool,” SAVE!

Step 4. Inserting

Clip Art-click Insert Tab and select the Clip Art Option. Search by animations to find Clip Art that moves.

Word Art-Click Insert Tab and select the Word Art down arrow to see all your options.

Pictures-Inserting pictures, graphics and using Word Art are the same here as in Word. You just need to make sure your cursor is in the cell you want the item to appear. Click the Insert Tab, Click on picture and then navigate to YOUR file and double click the picture to insert. You will also need to format your item, click to select the picture or Word Art and click on the Picture Tools Format Tab. Click on Crop to change the shape of the picture. Click on the arrow next to Text Wrapping and select Tight. Now you can move the object around. You can also use the Cell Alignment feature to move items around in the cell; just right click in the cell to see your options.

Step 5. Fixing Formating Problems

When using bulleted lists, you will find your text jumps over in the column. To fix this you will need to highlight all of the bulleted text in the cell. Up in the ruler bar, you will click on the margin tabs and move them back to the left margin of the column. (To see your ruler you may need to click the View Tab and make sure the ruler box is checked.) The top one should line up with the text in your heading, the bottom one should be two clicks to the right.

Step 6. HyperlinkGo to the webpage you want to link to and copy the URL. Type the name of the webpage you would like to direct your readers too into a cell on your webpage. Highlight and right click on the word, slide down to hyperlink. Press CTRL and V at the same time to paste the URL into the address box or right click and paste, click okay.

Step 7. Turn in your assignmentLog into Gaggle go to classes, click on the correct class, click on assignments and click on submit to attach your webpage to submit your assignment.

HINT: You can use this trick to fix many problems.