updated July 17, 2000

CLICK on the CLARISWORKS icon

1. Choose Word Processing

Ideas from the book "Macs for Teachers"

1. Select a word by double-clicking-- and then, if you keep the mouse down on the second click and drag sideways, you select more text in complete one-word increments. Click three times inside a paragraph will select the whole paragraph.
2. You can select all the text in your document at once by using the Select All command (to change the font for the whole thing, for example). Its keyboard equivalent is POUND-A.
3. Never, never never line up text using the spacebar. It may have worked in the typewriter days, but not anymore. So instead of using spaces to line up columns, use tab stops instead. Practice setting tabs and use them! It may appear fine on screen, but it won't line up correctly when you go to print.
4. Aexthetics Rule of Thumb: Don't use more than two fonts within a document. (Bold, italic, and normal versions of a font only count as one.)
5. Don't use underlining for emphasis. You're a typesetter now. You've got italics! Underlining is a cop-out for typewriter people.
6. The gray box in the scroll bar at the right side of the window tells you, at a glance, where you are in your document. Click in the gray area above or below the scroll box to jump one screenful up or down.
   Click or hold down the button with the up- or down- arrow to move up or down your document one line at a time.
7. You've already learned how to copy some text to the Clipboard, ready to paste into another place. Another useful technique is to cut text to the Clipboard. Cut works just like Copy except it snips the selected text out of the original document. (Cut-and-paste is how you move text from one place to another.)
8. It's considered uncouth to use "straight quotes" and 'straight apostrophes. 'they harken back to the days gone by of typewriters and mimeograph machines. Instead, use "curly doublequotes" and 'curly single quites.' See the difference? In ClarisWorks this is an easy switch for you to make. Choose Preferences from the Edit menu. In the dialog box that appears, choose Smart Quotes.
9. If there's an element that you want to appear at the top of every page, like the page number or the date, don't try to type it onto each page. Not only is that a waste of effort, but the minute you add or delete text from somewhere else, this top-of-the-page information will become middle-of-the-page information. Instead, use the Insert Header or Insert Footer (for the bottom of the page) command found in the Format menu.
10. Be painfully aware that what you see on the screen isn't always what prints out. The number one source of rude surprises happens when you write with a Mac connected to one printer (like a StyleWriter) but print on a different one (like a laser printer). Since the typefaces are handled differently for these printers, you'll discover that sentences, lines, and pages end in different places in the printout than they did on the screen. This is another problem that I've experienced when creating documents at home and waiting to print them to school on the laser printer.
    The solution is simple. Before you print, trick the Mac into thinking it has that laser printer already attached, so you can see what it's about to do to you. From the Apple menu, select Chooser. You should see the name of several printers there, like StyleWriter or LaserWriter (Which is used for all brands of laser printers). Click the one you plan to print on, even if it's one currently connected. If you don't see more than one printer icon in the Chooser, you have to reinstall them from you System or printer disks.

1. Center your Name using a fun font/Times, size 14, bold, italic
2. Center your school name: Ephraim Elementary
3. Click on box below for Graphics
4. Click on the arrow box in the Graphics window
5. Under file go to insert highlight clip art
   (On this computer you have to click on the Apple go down to scrapbook and there are a few clip art pictures in there to copy and paste.)
6. Go to File and click on: Save as
7. On the bottom right corner of this box are Document and Staionery boxes. Click on the Stationery button. On the top you will see the stationery file. LEAVE this alone.
8. Type Personal Stationery for the title
   put your name as the author, and create a category. I chose school for my category.
9. Click on save
   You now have a Stationery template
10. When you want to use it. go to file choose New. Click on the button with an Assistant or Stationery. Then beside the Category you will see the word General scroll down to school click you will see your personal Stationery. When you click on it you will notice that untitle is at the top. Leaving your original intact. Just save as a different name when you write a letter.

letter heads:
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June Jorgenssen          Day:
Computer Lab             Date:
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or--
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           June Jorgensen          
         Ephraim Elementary

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1. Open a new word-processing document
2. Go to Format and choose Insert Header
3. Set alignment for left justification
4. Creative, type name, day, date etc.
5. Click below header and create your plan sheet. choose font, bold etc. Don't fill it in yet just put in the outline. What you do that is the same week after week. You are making a template first.
6. Save as
7. On the bottom right corner of this box are Document and Stationery boxes. Click on the Stationery button. On the top you will see the stationery file. LEAVE this alone.
8. Type "Computer Schedual onedaytime" (type your title) put your name as the author, and create a category. I chose school for my category.
9. Click on save You now have a Stationery template
10. When you want to ust it. Go to fine choose New. Click on the button with an Assistant or Stationery. Then beside the Category you will see the word General scroll down to school click. You will see your "Computer Schedual onedaytime". When you click on it you will notice that untitle is at the top. Leaving your original intact. Just save as a different name when you write a letter.

1. Open your template. Choose Assistant or Stationery from the menu. Then find school folder, open it. (or the folder you saved it in)
2. This is where good planing pays off. If you left an appropriate amount of space for adding text. Place your cursor at the point where you wish to begin.
   Here is the trick: Hold down the Option Key and click the mouse button where you want to start to type. Hold the mouse button down and drag the length of space you'll need. (don't worry about the depth; the box will expand as you type.
   
   You've Just created a text block. These blocks prevent the words in your stationery from moving down each time you move to another line. In other words, it confines your typing to a certain area of the page.

   Type in your details. Click outside the box when you are ready to go to the next area.

   Continue in this manner until you fill in the entire document.
   

   If you find that you didn't leave enough space between time blocks, simply click outside your text block and move the next category down a little by pressing Return.

   When you finish, save (give it a different name. don't save this as stationery just as a regular text document.) or print the day's plans. Pull up another blank lesson-plan template.
   Continue until you've completed one week's worth. If you're on a roll, plan for the entire month!