MS WORD TIPS
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QUICK EMAIL TEXT If you prefer to compose your email message in MS Word, there's no reason to copy and paste it into your email program.  Just select File|Send To|Mail Recipient and it willdo that for you, opening up your default email program and placing it there, either  in the text window or as an attachment, depending upon the program you customarily usefor email
MAKE DIAGRAMS/CHARTS
 Go to Insert/Diagram. Look into all the options for formatting the diagrams. If you no not have Inspiration, this is a way to do some concept mapping.
 See examples
Want to rotate a picture in Word?
 See Directions and example below
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Want to rotate text in Word?
 The easiest is to use Word Art and follow the instructions above. Remember that you can also do this in Excel and then Paste into Document...See Excel hint page.
Correcting papers in Word
 There are several ways to do this. Pick the one that best fits your needs for the assignment.
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HERE ARE TWO VERSIONS OF THE SAME CHART MADE WITH WORD/INSERT DIAGRAM
JUST TO SHOW A COUPLE OF THE OPTIONS...THESE ARE PARTIAL DIAGRAMS OF THE CHARACTERS IN THE TRAVELING PANTS BOOKS...SEE ALSO OTHER DIAGRAM STYLES AND OPTIONS

Diagram of book characters.

OR SAME INFORMATION, DIFFERENT CHART STYLE FROM DIAGRAM FORMAT:

Diagram of book characters
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ROTATING A PICTURE IN WORD:
a.       Right click on image
b.      From Format Picture, select Picture/Layout/Tight
c.       Go down to Draw toolbar at bottom
d.      Select Rotate or Flip/Free Rote
e.       Click on a corner, and spin away!
f.        Or you can just rotate it exactly with other options.
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Correcting Errors in Word when Grading

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My teechur is a dough dough. She thinkz I cant spel. Whut do u think 

1.   Lowest level. Just italicize or otherwise denote mistakes. Have student correct. This is easy and makes the student  do the corrections.

My teechur is a dough dough. She thinkz I cant spel. Whut do u think 

2.    Another idea: Use Insert Comments…They will show up in margin.

   3.   OR…Use Track Changes--As you make a change,  the error shows in margin.
    • Go to Tools-Track Changes
    • Make corrections…they will show up as colored boxes in margin.
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