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Saving Links in a Word
Document After finding web-based resources for learning activities,
you will want an easy way to capture and save the links [1]
to those resources. The simplest way
to do this is described below: 1. Open Word to a new page or to the
lesson plan page for which you are gathering web-based resources. Minimize the Word document to the bottom of
the screen (on the “task bar” at the bottom of the screen, you will see a
button with the Word icon). 2. Open your web browser (Internet
Explorer) and begin your search for resources, using whatever search engines
or portals you choose. Suppose you
have found the website for “EduHound” – http://www.eduhound.com – and you want to
put its address into your lesson plan (or new document). 3. With “EduHound”
on-screen, click in the address bar near the top of the browser screen (the
address bar will show the “EduHound” address). Clicking in the address bar will highlight
the entire address (if the address does not highlight, just hold down the
mouse button and drag across the entire address to highlight it). 4. With address highlighted, hold
down the CTRL key and press the C key on the keyboard (“C” is obviously for “copy”). The address will be placed on the Windows “clipboard”
for later use. 5. Leaving the browser window open,
click the Word button on the task bar at the bottom of the screen. Your Word document will open on-screen. 6. In the Word document, click in the
location at which you want to place the “EduHound”
address. Your cursor will begin to
flash at that location. 7. Hold down the CTRL key and press
the V key on the keyboard (“V” is like the insertion caret used when editing
a paper). The address will be inserted
(pasted) into your Word document at the location of the flashing cursor. 8. In most cases, you can then press
the space bar and the address text will turn into a live link from with your
Word document. (If the address is at
the end of a sentence – or is to be followed by punctuation – type the period
-- or other
punctuation mark – and then press the space bar to convert the text to a live
link.) 9. Save your document so you will not
loose the changes. (Always be sure to
save the page in a folder you will remember – it takes a long time to find a
file that has been misplaced.) 10. You can then type any other text
you’d like – such as a description of what is found at the given link. You can add more links as you find more
websites. 11. STRATEGY: After saving the Word document, you can use
it in your classroom to use the resources in front of your students (using
your computer and projector). Simply
open the Word document, move the mouse pointer so it is located on the link
you want to follow; then, hold down the CTRL key on the keyboard (which will
turn your mouse pointer into the “finger”) and click the link. Your browser will go directly to that
webpage – live. [1] A
“link” is also known as an “Internet address” and as a “URL.” (URL=”uniform resource locator”). |
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Revised 2/6/06 |
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