Creating a Web Page In Word

Creating a Page

• Close all applications
• Open Word
• Create a table
• Add graphics and text to page. All graphics should be in a single cell.
• File ► Save as Web Page
• Click Web Folders and find your folder. It is a good idea to have a new folder for every project.
• Remove all spaces from the file name and capitalize the first letter of each word.
• Click Save
• Open Internet Explorer
• File ► Open
• Click Browse
• Browse to find your file on www.cheney268.com
• Double click on the document
• Click OK

Editing a Page

• Make your additions or changes to the page
• Save the page
• Go to Internet Explorer
• Click the Refresh button

Creating Internal Links

• Create a second web page
• Save the page to your folder
• Go back to your main page
• Type the text you want to be the hyperlink
• Highlight the hyperlink text
• Click the Insert Hyperlink button
• Browse to find the page you want linked
• Double click the file
• Click OK
• Save the page to your web folder
• Go to Internet Explorer
• Click the Refresh button
• Test the links

Creating External Links

• In Internet Explorer, find the web page you want to link to your site
• Click in the Address line once to select the entire line
• Hit Ctrl & C to copy the URL
• In Word, type the text you want to be the hyperlink (usually the name of the site)
• Highlight the hyperlink text
• Click the Insert Hyperlink button
• Click in the Address line (if not already there)
• Hit Ctrl & V to paste the URL
• Click OK
• Save the web page to your folder (an oft forgotten detail)
• Go to Internet Explorer
• Click the Refresh button (an oft forgotten detail)
• Test the links

NB: When you save a document with graphics in Word, it will create a folder with the same name (i.e. tuna.htm and the folder tuna_files)