Microsoft Word 2000

Working with Web Pages in

Microsoft Word 2000/XP  

 

While Microsoft Word was not designed as a Web page editor, it has a lot of features that allow you to design your Web pages quickly and easily, in fact this tutorial was

created entirely using Word.

The first step is to open Word and change the page view to “Web Layout View.”  Choose the appropriate button from the small toolbar above the Start button.  (see image to the right)  When you are in the Web page editing mode Word makes a couple changes to the way it displays your page.
  • The ruler is removed.
  • The screen refreshes more often you may notice that the screen seems to flicker more often.
  • The page margin is closer to the edge this is also a factor of HTML. It is very difficult to define the margins reliably in HTML, and Word is striving to be a WYSIWYG editor (what you see is what you get). The narrow left margin is probably what most people would see when viewing as a web page.

 

Now you are almost ready to create your webpage. Scroll down to learn about why it is so important to create your website within a table or use the quick jump bar below to go to a different heading.

 

Tables

 

Hyperlinks & Bookmarks

 

Images

 

Background

 

Saving As A Webpage

 

 

-Acknowledgments-

 

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Tables

 

When creating webpage’s in Microsoft Word all your text, information and pictures should be placed within table to maintain the appearance and location of page elements.  Yes it might look okay without a table in Internet Explorer but try looking at it using Netscape!

You can design your webpage with regular tables & nested tables that are both easy to make.  Nested tables are just tables inside other tables and they're one of the most typical ways to design Web pages. Just think of a Web page as one big table that holds the other “nested” tables. Placing the text and graphics inside different table cells helps you to lay out the different parts of your page exactly where you want them.

 

1.      Click on the Insert Table in the toolbar (or choose Table, Insert Table from the menu bar).

 

Web Title

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Nested Table

2.      Select how big you want your table to be (number of rows x number of columns).

3.      Then click on the grid to insert the table.  Don’t worry if the table turns out to be too big or too small because you can change it later.

4.      Start entering your content in the table.

5.      Use the tab key to move from left to right in the table.  Once you reach the end of the row hit tab again to move to the next row (or to start a new row if you are at the bottom of the table).

[Insert a table]

6.      Table cells work similar to spreadsheet cells.  You can select alignment settings, etc. for each individual cell, row or column.

7.      Right-click on the table and then choose Properties from the pop-up menu to edit the properties of your table.

8.      VERY IMPORTANT:

*       Center your table.

*       Remove lines and boarders, set to none (in most instances)

*       Resize to 100 %

9.      Word will automatically adjust column width based on what you type in a cell.  However, you may still need to make some manual adjustments.  Do so by placing your mouse pointer on the vertical line to the right of the column you want to adjust.  When your mouse pointer turns into a two-way arrow. 

     Hold down your left mouse button and drag the line to the right or left.

 

Nesting Tables:

 

1.      Now that you get the hang of creating and manipulating tables it is time to try nesting tables.

2.      Let’s say you want a picture with a caption under it in a cell next to some text. (a)

3.      Place your mouse in the cell where you would like the picture and simply insert a new 2X1 table at that point as you did above when inserting a table. (b)

4.      Insert the picture into the upper cell of your nested table and add a caption in the cell below. (c)

a)

Text, text, text, text, text, text.

 

b)

Text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text.

 

 

c)

Text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text, text.

Pretty Flowers

 

Cautions: Nesting one table inside another can cause unexpected behavior when you sort a table that has another table nested in one or more cells in the column used to perform the sort

 

*       For more detailed information on tables check out the Florida Gulf Coast University’s Online Tutorial (http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/word/tables.html)

 

*       Click here for a printed version of TABLES.

 

Scroll down to learn about hyperlinks and bookmarks or use the quick jump bar below to go to a different heading.

 

Tables

 

Hyperlinks & Bookmarks

 

Images

 

Background

 

Saving As A Webpage

 

 

-Acknowledgments-

 

-back-

 

 

 

 

 

Inserting Hyperlinks & Bookmarks

 

 

 

Hyperlinks allow you to let your reader jump from one place to another in your web page and from your web page to another anywhere else on the Internet. 

 

Bookmarks are invisible place markers you insert at key points within your document so that you can link there with a hyperlink.  *You will need bookmarks to hyperlink within the same document.

 

Creating Bookmarks:

 

 

 

1.      To create a bookmark, place your cursor at the location in your document that you would like to set as the destination.

2.      Then click Insert on the menu bar and then select bookmarks.

3.      Type a name for the new bookmarked destination (Use a word or image name that is easy to remember).

4.      Click add and you are done.

 

 

 

Creating Hyperlinks:

 

1.      Go to the place in the document (it can be an image or a word) that is to be hyperlinked.

2.       Highlight the word, words, or image and click the hyperlink button on the toolbar. 

image Hyperlink

Alternatively you can right click the highlighted image or text and select hyperlink.

3.      The window to the left appears. 

4.      Do either of the following:

a.          Type website or the name of your bookmark (preceded by a # symbol) here. Click Okay and the hyperlink is activated.

b.          Click Place in This Document or the Bookmark button. Click on the name of the particular bookmark you wish to use and ‘Okay’. The name appears in the address box. Click Okay and the hyperlink is activated.  

c.          Click the Browsed Pages button to bring up a list of your recent files. Select the appropriate file. Click Okay and the hyperlink is activated.   

d.          Use the Web browse button to bring up your browser window. Use this to find the web page you want to link to. Once the page is on view minimize the browser window and the URL will appear in the insertion box. Click Okay and the link will become active. 

e.          Look in Favorites: This will take you to the files you have previously saved in your browser as favorites or bookmarks. Choose the one you want to link to Click Okay and the hyperlink is activated.

 

Notes About Links:

 

·         If you are linking to another file in the same directory as the page that contains the link, simply make the link filename.htm.

·         If you are linking to another website, then the link format needs to be http://www.whatever.com.

·         If you are linking to a file that is contained in a sub-folder of your web directory then the link format needs to be subfolder/filename.htm.

·         For creating an e-mail address link the format needs to be mailto:username@mc.edu.  The mailto: tells the web browser to launch the user’s e-mail client and insert your e-mail address in the TO: field.