1. Word 2007 has many useful extra features. One that may be extremely useful to those writing research papers and thesis is publishing your Word documents as a PDF. To be able to do this, first you need to download a free plugin from Word. You can find this at
To be able to add the plugin, your Word copy should be genuine, since you have to go through a whole process of validation before you can use this feature. Once you validate it, all you have to do is open a Word document and save it as a PDF copy.
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2. Another interesting feature is columns. You can find this feature under Page Layout. It allows you to choose how many columns you would need in a document and how wide you’d like to make each column. It can also be used within a document to give it visual variety.
3. In Word 2007, when you insert a picture within a text, the program allows you to position the picture in different places in the document. You’ll see that when your picture is highlighted or marked, the Picture Tools Format will open, under Position, you’ll find 9 different ways of placing the picture.
4. Using the Style and Themes Features
5. Templates
Under the Word logo, when you choose New document, you’ll see an extensive list of possible templates. Under Forms, for example, if you choose Academic, you’ll find forms such as Field Trip Permission Slips, Students Weekly Reports, among others. Under More Categories, you’ll find Quizzes and Tests templates. These are available for you to download as long as you have a genuine Microsoftword copy.
6. Another feature you should know how to use is Track Changes, you can find this under the Review tab. This allow you to correct your student’s documents.
7. Even more… Check out the video below.
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Comment # 10
What to say in front of such a research. Fantastic!!! Easer the job every day something new, what I appreciate the most is your happiness in sharing all the knowledge you acquired. Actually I’ll take the opportunity to congratulate you once more for being such a good facilitator and so well informed. Thanks again for given me the opportunity to learn besides you. Hope one of these days I’ll reach the complete immigration to technology it has helped me a lot and further more instructed me new matters that if weren’t for you and “Borinquen Writing Program” I wouldn’t even dare to investigate into computers. Thanks once more because I can say I’ve lost the scare to move in to it. I hope also that when technology moves to our schools I’ll be more than ready to face it. Thanks to all I could learn.
I hope that in a near future my students which are in third grade now, could have
the opportunity to work with all this new tools in their classroom. It will be very
exciting to see their faces enjoying it. We really have been exposed to the latest.
I really appreciate your interest in providing us with the latest.
Even though we all use Word I really did not know all of its useful feathers until I took this course. Publishing in PDF is a must, especially if it’s your thesis or a research . I like the idea of inserting a picture of a Famous Poet or writer and writing all of his biography and important information around it. I think I like Track Changes most because I can correct my student’s papers. There is still so much to learn.
Margarita
I just got through downloading the 2007 Microsoft add-ins, so now it’s practice, practice, practice. Some features seem to help simplify a lot of extra work so I hope I can use them in my old computer.
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