I have been a Microsoft Word user since high school. I have felt pretty comfortable with it for some time. However, familiarity breeds contempt and I never thought Word would be very capable at visual designs. I have always used Microsoft Publisher for these types of applications. While I’m not sold on Word over Publisher, I was surprised at what I was able to produce on Word. I really enjoyed playing with the options for photos. Below, I have links to a riding lesson flyer I made last year in Publisher and one I created this week in Word. I think the lessons I learned about design have made the flyer much more visually interesting. I’ll post more about design and my newsletter in my next blog post.
Personally, I love MS Word as an educational tool. Before this week, I was still a little leery of using MS Word 2007 since I had been using the older versions of Word. I never had a great grasp of “The Ribbon.” After this week, I think I can use and explain its functions to students. In our online discussions, I mentioned the Outline mode of Word. It is a great way to organize information when drafting a composition. With the new features of MS Word 2007, I bet teachers could create great graphic organizers. For example, a quick Google search brought me to this file:
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