1.  First Open Microsoft Word.  If you forgot how to do that, click on Start button located at the bottom left corner of your screen, Go to Programs, then locate Microsoft Word.

2.  Open up a blank document by clicking on File on the Menu Bar, Then Clicking on New.  In this exercise you will be creating a flyer for a bake sale that you are going to have.

3.  Place a textbox on the top of you document by using the Drawing Toolbar.

 4.  Within the text box enter your name in big letters.  A suggested font size is 48, and font type is Arial Black.

5.  Now you will add color to you textbox.  This is done by right clicking on you textbox with your mouse and selecting Format Text Box.  When the Format Text Box Dialog box appears you should click on the Colors and Lines tab and change you Fill Color to any color you prefer.  Now you should have color in you text box. .

6. You will now enter a WordArt into your document.  This is done by going to Insert on the Menu bar then clicking on picture and then choosing WordArt.

7.  When the WordArt Gallery Dialog Box appears you may choose any WordArt you prefer.

8.  After you have chosen the style of WordArt you prefer, the Edit WordArt Text Dialog Box should appear.  In this box you should the words Bake Sale, and insert the Word Art into your document.  You should be creative about where you place you WordArt in your document.

9.  Finally to make you flyer more attractive you should add ClipArt.  You may choose which ClipArt you want to add and where to add it.  If you do not recall how to access ClipArt please refer to Exercise 1.  This is an example of what your final product should approximately resemble:

Now you should be more familiar with WordArt and the Drawing Toolbar.  For more practice you can try the exercise again with a different style of WordArt.

1.  First Open Microsoft Word.  If you forgot how to do that, click on Start button located at the bottom left corner of your screen, Go to Programs, then locate Microsoft Word.

2.  In a blank document, type your full name centered at the top of the page.

3.  Type a short biography of yourself

4.  List your hobbies and favorite activities in a bulleted list.  To do this, go to format, then Bullets and Numbering.

or just go to the formatting toolbar and click on this button

5.  Click on Insert, then Hyperlink and insert a link to your favorite web page

6.  Click on File, then "Save As a Web Page."   

7.  Open Internet Explorer or another type of web browser.

8.  Click on File, then open.

9  Go to the specific drive and/or folder where you saved your new web page. Then open it.  Check if the link works

Now that you have learned how to create a web page through using a word document, you can use this to create many more documents that you can share on the web.

Note: you can share through internet only if you have uploaded your web pages on a Server..

1. Copy and Paste the following sentence into a blank Microsoft word document

         "The University of Maryland, College Park, is a public research university, the flagship campus of the University System of Maryland, and the original 1862 land-grant institution in Maryland."    

                                                     (note: this is what you should have so far)

2. Place the cursor at the end of the sentence. Look at the picture above and notice where the cursor is placed. 

3. Insert Footnote.  Go to Insert on the File Menu, Click on Footnote, then Click 'OK'.

(note: notice the one next to the last quotation mark)    

4.  Scroll to the bottom of the page.  There you will notice the footnote field.  Type the following source information at the bottom of the page: 

           "Source: http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/provost/Strategic_Planning/Mission2000.html"

(note: this is what you should have at the bottom of page)

Note to student:  If you want more practice do this exercise again, but at an Endnote instead of a Footnote.