How to use Word to make a web page

Making a web page

Making a web page with Microsoft word is very easy.

1- Create a simple word document

2- Save it as a web page

If you need to make more changes

3- Open the web page in Microsoft word (either by right Click or by File/Open)

4- Make changes (for example , Insert a picture)

5- Save it again

Note: as soon as you insert a picture into your web page and save it a new folder will be created (Automatically) to save all your pictures. Don’t forget to ALWAYS move this folder with your web page including when you want to publish your web page.

External Link

1- Select (highlight) the word you want to link.

2- Insert Hyperlink

3- Type the URL (web address) of the web site that you want to make the link with in the Upper window.

4- Click OK.

Internal Link

1- Put your Cursor on the target place

2- Go to Insert/Bookmark and type ONE word (this word will be your bookmark) and click on Add.

3- Select the text (the origin or the link) and Insert Hyperlink

4- Click on (Bookmarks button or Place in This Document) in the left window

5- Click on the Browse button to find your bookmark word. Then Click OK.

To publish your files to your CSULB web account

You may use Internet Explorer to send your files to your CSULB web account by going to

ftp://your csulb username@ftp.csulb.edu, For example, ftp://arezaei@ftp.csulb.edu

A new window will open. Input your user ID and password then and then copy and paste all your files into htdocs folder.

To Check (visit, see, try, test) your webpage

Go to the following address

http://www.csulb.edu/~your user name/Folder Name/File Name.htm

for example, http://www.csulb.edu/~arezaei/ETEC444/webdevelop.html

Word features that are different or unavailable during Web authoring

When authoring Web pages in Word, you can use many familiar Word features, such as spelling and grammar checking, AutoText, and tables. Some features are customized to make Web authoring easier, such as graphic bullets and lines. Features that aren't supported by HTML are not available for authoring Web pages. The list below explains which features are changed or unavailable when you are authoring Web pages.

Feature	Available or changed	Detail
Columns	See note	Newspaper columns aren't supported in HTML, but you can use tables to create a multicolumn effect.
Comments and change tracking	See note	Word comments and track changes features aren't supported in HTML. You can use strikethrough formatting to represent text that might be deleted. For comments, you can format text with the Comments style. Comments will not appear in Web browsers.
Highlighting	No	Highlighting is not available on a Web page.
Font sizes	See note	Fonts are mapped to the closest HTML size available in the <FONT SIZE> tag, which ranges from size 1 to 7. These numbers are not point sizes but are used as instructions for font sizes by Web browsers. Word displays the fonts in sizes ranging from 9 to 36.
Bold, strikethrough, italic, and underline effects	Yes	Special underline effects, such as dotted underline, are not available.
Animated text effects (Format menu, Font command, Animation tab)	See note	Animations are not available. For an animated effect, insert scrolling text.
Emboss, shadow, engrave, small caps, all caps, double strikethrough, and outline effects (Format menu, Font command, Font tab)	No
Tabs	No	Tabs are not available because they are often displayed by Web browsers as spaces. To control the layout of your page, use a table.
Ruler	See note	The ruler does not appear by default because margin settings, indents, and tabs differ in the Web page authoring environment. You can point to the gray area at the top of the document to display the ruler.
Equations, charts, and other OLE objects	See note	When you save charts, equations, organizational charts, and other OLE objects in HTML format, a graphic image is created. You can use these graphics on your Web pages, but you won't be able to update the data they represent. If you need to later update data in a chart or equation that you're displaying on a Web page, save a backup copy of your file as a Word document (.doc format).
Drawing objects, such as AutoShapes, text effects, text boxes, and shadows	See note	These items aren't available on the Drawing toolbar. They are available as Microsoft Word Picture objects ¾ click Object on the Insert menu, and then click Microsoft Word Picture. Once you close your document, the graphic becomes a GIF image, and you will not be able to update it using the Drawing toolbar again.
Headers and footers	No
Footnotes and endnotes	No
Cross-references	No
Master documents	No	Master documents aren't supported in Web page authoring. You can separate large amounts of text into unique Web pages and then insert hyperlinks to these smaller documents onto one Web page.
Mail merge	No
Versioning	No
Styles	Yes	When you define your own styles, only the formatting that's supported in Web page authoring will be available.
Paragraph formatting	See note	Some paragraph formats, such as settings to control how paragraphs flow and spacing before and after paragraphs, aren't available. To control the layout of your page, you can use a table.
Tables of contents, tables of authorities, and indexes	No	The Word tools for creating these items aren't available. You can simulate a table of contents by using hyperlinks.
Page borders	No	Borders around pages aren't supported in HTML. To make a page more interesting, you can add a background by using the Background command on the Format menu.
Page numbering	No	An HTML document is considered a single Web page, regardless of its length.
Margins	No	To control the layout of a page, you can use a table.