Category: Word processing
Tech Tip #24: Open a New Word Doc without the Program
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: Open a New Word Doc without Program
Category: MS Office
Q: I can’t find the icon that opens MS Word. What do I do?
A: These things happen and always at the worst time. You might have pinned it to the start menu (see Tech Tip #53: How to Pin Any Program to the Start Menu), but what if you didn’t?
No problem. Right click on the desktop and press New>Word Doc. That’s what it does–opens a new Word doc for you without opening the program first.
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Tech Tip #19: Best MS Word Tips
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: Ten Best MS Word Tips
Category: MS Office, Problem-solving, Keyboarding
Here are popular MS Word tips and links to articles:
- Turn an Address into a Link–push the space bar after pasting in an internet address–that activates it (or push enter)
- What’s Today’s Date–press Shift+Alt+D in MS Word. Or, as you start typing the date, Word will populate it for you.
- Menu command is grayed out–push escape four times (you’re probably in something you don’t know you are). This works 90% of the time
- How to Undelete–push Ctrl+Z
- #109: MS Word Skills Assessment for Grades 3-8
- Dear Otto: How do I set the default font on MS Word
- Tech Tip #37: My MS Word Toolbar Disappeared
- Tech Tip #20: How to Add an MS Word Link
- MS Word for Grades 2-5
- #45: How to Use MS Word to Teach Geography
- Easy Photo Editing in MS Word
- Tech Tip #98: Speed up MS Office with Quick Access Toolbar
- Tech Tip #24: How to Open A New Word Doc Without the Program
- Tech Tip #102: Doc Saved Over? Try This
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169 Tech Tip #20: How to Add a Link to MS Word
In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education.
Today’s tip: #20–How to add a link to MS Word
Category: EDIT/FORMAT
Sub-category: MS Office, Google Apps, Keyboarding
Q: I want to link a resource in Word/Google Docs to a website. How do I do that?
A: Follow these easy steps:
- Go to the website you want to link to.
- Copy the address from the address bar (Ctrl+C or Edit>copy from the menus).
- Return to your doc (it’s waiting on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen or simply click Alt+Tab).
- Highlight the words you want to link to the website.
- Press Ctrl+K; press Ctrl+V; push enter.
- The words turns blue with a line under them, showing it’s a link.
- To use the link, Ctrl+click on the words.
There are sophisticated options that go along with adding links, but this is quick and easy.
Ten MS Word Tips You Don’t Want to Miss
Here are ten of the top MS Word tips according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers:
#109: MS Word Skills Assessment for Grades 3-8
Dear Otto: How do I set the default font on MS Word
Tech Tip #37: My MS Word Toolbar Disappeared
Tech Tip #20: How to Add an MS Word Link
#45: How to Use MS Word to Teach Geography
Tech Tip #98: Speed up MS Office with Quick Access Toolbar
Tech Tip #24: How to Open A New Word Doc Without the Program
Dear Otto: How do I set the default font on MS Word
Dear Otto is an occasional column where I answer questions I get from readers about teaching tech. If you have a question, please contact me at askatechteacher at gmail dot com and I’ll answer it here. For your privacy, I use only first names.
Here’s a great question I got from a reader:
MS Word opens with Calibri 11 and I want Times New Roman 12. How do I change that?
The easiest way to answer this is by showing so here’s a quick video on that:
#109: MS Word Skills Assessment for Grades 3-8
This assessment is comprehensive, designed not to test students. but assess their knowledge as an aid to you in determining where to begin. Use it when you start a new class or to determine where are the holes in their learning.
All of these skills are covered in a multi-year once-a-week project-based program, such as described in other parts of this blog. If your classes don’t cover all of these skills, adapt the assessment to your needs. If you use Google Docs, adapt it to that program.
Click on each page of lesson plan.
Tech Tip #102: Doc Saved Over? Try This
As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each Tuesday, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy!
Q: My youngers often save a blank document over their MS Word file. How? Instead of ‘file>open’, they use the menu command ‘file>save-as’ and then they lose all their work. Is there any way to retrieve the file?
A: Absolutely, though it doesn’t work all the time. Bring the student’s file folder in Windows Explorer. Right click on the file name for the lost Word file and select ‘Restore previous version’. Select the latest version that’s not today.
Every time I do this, I’m a hero for ten minutes.
Tech Tip #98: Speed up MS Office with Quick Access Toolbar
As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each Tuesday, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy!
Q: I tend to do the same actions over and over on my MS Office software. How do I create a customized tool bar with my favorite tools?
A: This one is going to improve the quality of your life immediately. It’s so simple, you’ll wish you’d known it months ago.
First, you need Office 2007 or later because earlier versions don’t include the Quick Access toolbar. It looks like this:
Tech Tip #81: I Have Office 2010; Everyone Else Has 2003–They Can’t Read My Stuff
As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each week, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy!
Q: My school updated to Office 2010 and many parents are still on 2003. What can I do so they can read my stuff?
A: When you save the doc, go to File-save as, and select file type 97-2003
Tech Tip #79: Saving Your File so Everyone Can Read it
As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each week, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy!
Q: I need to make my Word document readable by colleagues that don’t have MS Word. What do I do?
A: MS Office 2007 and 2010 makes that easy. (more…)
