Microsoft Word 97 Tutorial

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Creating HyperLinks

To link to ComputersofTomorrow.com, first save this computer to your hard drive, by right mouse clicking, and selecting "Save As."

Insert picture, from file, into your web document.  Then type right next to it:

Buy a custom built computer or custom build your own free website - no programming experience required.

Then highlight this statement, and choose Insert hyperlink from the menu.   In the box that says Link to file or URL, type

http://www.ComputersofTomorrow.com

Your link should look similar to this:

Buy a custom built computer or custom build your own free website - no programming experience required.

If you are having trouble getting your text to look as neat as the one above, it's because the one above is placed in a table.  Tables can be helpful in aligning text and images.

If you would like to use your index page as a table of contents page, you will need to create hyperlinks to each of your files.  First, create your table of contents and your individual files.  Once that is completed, you can link to those files the same way you linked to our site.  Just Insert Hyperlink, and on the Link to file or URL field, select Browse and browse for your filename.

If you would like to create a link to different sections within the same page, you would use the bookmark option.   First you decide the location that you want to jump to when the hyperlink is selected, then you highlight the beginning of that word, and Insert bookmark.  Word will automatically name that bookmark as the same name you highlighted.  You can also change it if you want to, to something that is more representative.  Then go to your table of contents, either on the same page or different page, then insert hyperlink, and browse in the named location in file field, to locate your bookmark.  If your bookmark is on a separate page, select your file first, and then your bookmark.  (See example)

Now, that you have the basics down and have finished saving your HTML file, you are ready to learn how to upload your page to the World Wide Web.

There are several free web site hosting options available, try http://www.tripod.com.  Just click on their homepage studio page in the build homepages section to begin.  Go to the File Manager section.  Tripod will ask you for a user name and password, since you are new, go ahead and register for the free website in the not a member section.  Click on sign up now, and once you have filled out the form, wait till you receive your temporary password.  After you have received your temporary password you are ready to upload files.  To upload files, go to the File Manager section, type in your user name and password, and hit submit.  Select upload from the first pull-down menu, where it says file.  Then choose your files from your hard drive by hitting the browse button, and then hit upload.  (Remember to upload both your HTML files and your clipart files, making sure that all files are in the same directory.)

After you have uploaded your files to the web, don't forget to submit your site to the major search engines.

Now, it's official - You're on the World Wide Web!

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