WORD – Ideas

1. Smart Art – Create your own graphic organizers. Use to direct class discussions, organize information, or?

2. Mail Merge – Create mailing labels, add names to certificates (Publisher), or create a document from lists in Excel.

3. Headers & Footers – Footers can contain a plethora of information that will auto-update as you use your document: page numbers, last update, time stamp, and much more. Use the Header to display the title and author of a work.

4. Search and Replace – Writing recommendations? Easily change the names in the document using find and replace. Another way to quickly correct a mistake throughout the document that the spell checker misses.

5. Image editor – Very powerful photo editing tools. Do not have photo editing software; use Word to edit your photo.

6. Templates – Create all sorts of different documents. Plenty to choose from.

7. Spell Checker – Readability – No worries about mistakes in spelling or grammar use the Word tools to make your document the best it can be. Use the readability information to ensure your writing is at grade level. Copy and paste a passage of text into Word; run spell check and then look at the readability information to check the text for grade level.

8. Citation Maker – Enter your Works cited as you type your paper. Will insert in-line citations! When finished, click on Bibliography, select Bibliography or Works Cited and your citations are automatically inserted

according to the citationformat you selected.

9. Webpages – Instead of a full paper have your students create a webpage. This simple webpage design tool creates amazing webpages. Save them to your Classroom webpage for viewing in and outside of the district.

10. Grouping – Have graphics, textboxes and pictures on your document and tired of them moving around? Use the grouping tool. Hold down the Ctrl key and click each piece. Then click group and select group.