Copying Objects from Excel to Word
Tables
Open Microsoft Word by pressing the 
button in the bottom left corner of your screen, moving the pointer up
to Programs on the task bar, and choosing Word from the list of available
programs that are listed to the right.
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| Open the spreadsheet document you were previously
working on.
Select a table you would like to copy to your Word document. Choose Copy from the Edit menu. Use Alt+Tab or the task bar at the bottom of your screen to get back to Word. |
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Place the cursor where you want to insert the table,
and select Paste from the Edit menu.
The table should now appear where you wanted it
to be.
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of the table you were working on, but you are able to edit it as if it
had been created in word. You can, for example, change the font size, you
can change the with of the columns and so on. For practice,
select the table, and do the following:
Change the font to Times New Roman size 8. |
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Your table should now look something like this
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You can also experiment with the column size, inserting
new lines and so forth.
| Select the table, and choose Borders and Shading from the Format menu and put a frame around the table and gridlines between cells. |  |
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Now, your table should have a solid border, and gridlines between the cells.
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Graphs
Go back to Excel by using Alt Tab or the task bar at the bottom of your screen. Select a chart you wish to copy, and choose Copy from the Edit menu. Use Alt Tab or the task bar at the bottom of your screen to get back to Word. Place the cursor where you want to insert the chart, and select Paste from the Edit menu.
You can make changes to the chart when you have inserted it. If you double click anywhere on the chart, you get access to the tools used in Excel to edit charts. Notice that the commands you find in the menus are now Excel commands, not the Word commands that used to be there. When you have finished editing your chart, you can get back to the regular mode in Word by clicking anywhere in the document outside the chart.
Copying Objects from Word to Power Point
If you have created a Word document, and want to make a presentation on the same topic, you can use the work you have already done by simply copying the parts you wish to include in the presentation from the word document and pasting it into a Power Point presentation.
Open Power Point, and choose to create a blank presentation.
Type a title on the title slide, and choose New Slide (in the bottom right corner of your screen). Choose an empty slide.
Go back to Word by using Alt Tab or the task bar.
Select the table you copied from Excel, and choose Copy from the Edit menu.
Go back to Power Point by using Alt Tab or the task bar.
Choose Paste from the Edit menu.
Go back to Word by using Alt Tab or the task bar.
Select the chart you copied from Excel, and choose Copy from the Edit menu.
Go back to Power Point by using Alt Tab or the task bar, and choose Paste from the Edit menu.
Notice that you can still edit the table and the chart in the same way as you could when they were in Word. The whole Office package is integrated in such a way that any object created in any part of Office can be moved to any other part of Office, and still remain manageable. Try, for example, to double click on the table in Power Point. Notice that you can now use the tools from Word to edit the table. If you double click on the chart, you can use the tools from Excel to edit the chart.
Using Frames in Word
| Sometimes you want to insert objects such as tables
and charts into a Word document, and would like the text of the document
to flow freely around the inserted object. This can be done by using the
Frame function in Word.
Find Word again by using Alt Tab or the task bar at the bottom of your screen. Type a few lines of text, and then choose Frame from the Insert menu. The program will now switch to Page Layout View (if
it is not already in that mode. Generally, you can switch between Normal
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Use the mouse to point to the place where you want the left top corner of the frame to be.
Press the (left) mouse button, and (while holding the button down) use the mouse to choose the appropriate size of the frame.
Select the chart you inserted earlier, and choose Copy form the Edit menu.
Point to the inside of the new frame and press the mouse button.
Select Paste from the Edit menu.
| Now you have captured the chart in a frame, around which the text can flow. You can use the mouse to move the frame to a new position, you can resize it, and you can even copy it with all of its contents and paste to a different place in the document, or to Power Point. |  |
Using the Equation Editor in Word
| Microsoft Word has a built-in editor that enables
you to create mathematical symbols in an easy way.
Take the cursor to the place where you want to insert an equation. Choose Object from the Insert menu. Scroll down the list of options until you find Microsoft
Equation.
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When you have chosen to insert Microsoft Equation,
a new set of controls will appear on your screen. 
The Equation Editor is
a menu driven typewriter for mathematical symbols. You type by clicking
on the buttons on you see, and then selecting the symbols you want. There
are two different categories of symbols. First, there are simple symbols
like 
and so forth, that is symbols that
are composed of a single character. The other category is more interesting.
It contains symbols like 
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to insert your own additional symbols into the one created by the Equation
Editor.
Try pressing the button that has a picture of a
fraction and a square root, and selecting the square root from the list
of symbols. 
You will get a square root in the little box the Equation Editor types into, and under the square root there will be another little box into which you can type anything you like, either using the keyboard or the Equation Editor. |
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Just for practice, try using the Equation Editor
to create the following formulae:
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Of course, the formulae created by the Equation Editor can be copied and pasted into other your Power Point presentations. If you want to edit a formula you have created, all you have to do is double click on the formula, and then you get access to the Equation Editor again.
Using Internet Assistants for Microsoft Office
Microsoft has developed software packages for all
components of Office that make it possible to convert Office documents
to web documents. The software packages are called Internet Assistants.
The way in which you use the Internet Assistants
differs, depending on the version of Office you are using. The features
of the Internet Assistants are built into Office 97, but if you are using
an older version, you must download the Internet Assistants from the Microsoft
web site. The two versions also work differently. In Office 97 you can
change a Word document to a Web document by choosing Export as HTML from
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| In the older versions, you choose Save As from the file menu, and then you select the file type HTML before you save. In both version, new and old, you can convert Power Point presentations to web documents by selecting Export as HTML from the file menu. Try converting the document you have been working on to a web document by selecting Export as HTML. |  |
Using Word´s HTML Editor
Microsoft Word can be used to create and edit web pages in a similar way as Netscape Gold. Again, the way in which this is done, and the extent to which it works, differs from one version to the next. Although the versions are different, creating a document from scratch is similar in the Office 97 as it was in the older version. You choose New from the File menu, and instead of selecting a blank document, you choose an HTML document. Office 97 has a wizard for accessing pre-made templates. Once you have started a new HTML document, you will find that editing it is very similar both to regular word processing in Word, and making web pages in Netscape Gold. Give it a try! If you like the page you create, you can use ftp to upload it to your personal web site and then you can make a link to it from your home page.
Downloading Internet Assistants for Microsoft
Office
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You can download Internet Assistants for Office from the Microsoft web site. If you take your browser to http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/default.asp you will find a list of software that is available for free download. Scroll down to the Web Publishing Tools category, and select the Internet Assistant you want to download. From there on, follow the directions you get for selecting the appropriate versions, and installing the software on your computer. |
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little buttons in the bottom left corner of the screen.). 
