Most of the tools and commands you need are easy to find on the Standard and Formatting toolbars and on the Word 2000 menus. The following illustration is of the Word 2000 window with a blank document in Print Layout view.

CREATING AND FORMATTING DOCUMENTS

With Microsoft Word 2000, you can create and modify the various types of documents you use in the classroom quickly, edit and format your documents in interesting and dramatic ways, and save documents as templates for future use. In this chapter you will discover how to use these features as you create a worksheet or test for use in your classroom.

There are several types of Word 2000 documents you can start from:

Blank document . Start with a blank document when you want to create a traditional printed document.

Web page . Use a Web document when you want to display the document's contents on an intranet or the Internet in a Web browser. A Web page opens in Web layout view. Web pages are saved in HTML format.

E-mail messages . If you use Outlook 2000 or Outlook Express, use an e-mail message when you want to compose and send a message or a document to others directly from Word 2000. An e-mail message includes an e-mail envelope toolbar so that you can fill in the recipient names and subject of the message, set message properties, and then send the message.

Templates. Use a template when you want to reuse boilerplate text, custom toolbars, macros, shortcut keys, styles, and AutoText entries.

When you save a Word 2000 document, its document type determines the file format in which it is saved.

TO CREATE A WORKSHEET OR TEST

1. Start Word 2000.

2. On the File menu, click New, and then click the General tab.

3. Double-click Blank Document to create a new document.

4. Enter some introductory text of your choice into the document, such as the title of the worksheet and some instructions.

5. On the File menu, click Save As. The Save As dialog box appears. It's a good idea to give a new document a name and save it as soon as you create it.

6. In the File name box, type a name for your document. In Word 2000 you can write long file names so that you can be as descriptive as needed.

7. Click Save.