HARD WORD

1.  People think they know Microsoft Word.  But do you know it well
enough to do the following lab, which we used to have as x-lab1.html...

2.  Surf over to the nytimes.com web site.  Indeed, I am going to make
you re-do this page, paragraph-by-paragraph, in MSWord.

3.  Let's start with the masthead.  Right click and copy it into your
document.  Make sure it is about the width of the page and centered.
Now put the first story underneath it.  Don't worry about multiple
columns... That's coming soon.

In fact, just so you don't go crazy later, why don't you insert a text box
before you put in that first story.  You will find in this lab that
everything should be a text box within a text box within a text box.
Well, sometimes it's a picture within a text box within a text box.
But if you don't get that outer box, you won't be able to control jack.

Make sure your story tagline and text are about the right relative size,
and you have copied the style of the author name and underlined what you
need to underline.  You don't need to break lines in exactly the same places.

But you should color the headline and links dark blue.

4.  Get all four main stories in good shape in this single column.

Move the column off from the left margin so you have room for the links.

Now let's add a box with the news links.  You can copy their images for
NEWS, OPINION, and FEATURES.  But if you want love, you might even try doing
them as charcoal-gray filled boxes...

5.  Add a column on the right with the image of the day.  You can grab their
image.  Add the caption.  Can you get the photographer's credit in the
right place and the right size?

6.  Add the NATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL, and EDITORIALS/OP-ED text.  Now you have
three text colors, at least.  

7.  Did you make room under the masthead for the UPDATED MONDAY, NOVEMBER stuff?
Add the temperature and the two ads that flank the masthead, too.

Lookin' good!

8.  All that's left is the Markets column.  This is an easy column because
half of it is just images.  Ah, but you have to be able to import images and
move them around.  Not so easy in Word, but well worth practicing.  Again,
if Word won't anchor the images where you want them, use boxes.

9.  Most students enjoy adding the table of images midway down the nytimes.com
page.  

10.  If you have room, add the banner ad on the extreme rhs.  If not, just
shrink the browser window so that it doesn't display the ad.  The ad is a 
giveaway for the final test, so we have to hide it or copy it.  One way or
the other.  

Now ask the TA to stand on the opposite side of the lab as you flop between
your Word window and your browser window.  If the TA can't tell which is the
real one, you are done!