Walkup's Way Home Removing the Underlining from URL Addresses

   

On a "Works Cited" page,  URL addresses should be typed in angle brackets.   Angle brackets can also be used in essays to frame a Web site location.

Framing URLs with angle brackets   avoids  confusion as to whether or not hyphens and periods are part of  the address or part of the essay.

Students often ask me how to remove the underlining that occurs when they type a URL address in angle brackets. I tell them the following:

  1. Go to tools
  2. Click on Auto Correct
  3. Click on Auto Format as you type

That’s it.

Useless typing trivia

Stewardesses and reverberated are the two longest words (12 letters each) that can be typed using only the left hand. The longest word that can be typed using only the right hand is lollipop.

Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands

The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

 

 

Transforming an 8-page report to a 10-page report

1.   Select  font wisely.  For example, all of the following are at  10 point:
This is 10 point                          Abadi
This is 10 point                         Ariel Narrow
This is 10 point                     Times new Roman
This is 10 point            Americana
This is 10 point          Bookman Old Style
This is 10 point             copperplate
This is 10 point  New Courier  

 

To preview fonts, go to FORMAT, then FONT, then click on a font.  If you scroll through the fonts using the arrow keys, they'll appear in the box below so you can see what they look like.

2.  Adjust spacing between characters ( Under FORMAT - click on FONT & then click on CHARCTER SPACING)
 This is 10 point Times new Roman @ 100% Char. spacing

This is 10 point Times new Roman @ 200 % spacing

 3.  Adjust margins - just a tad  (go to FILE  click on PAGE SETUP  Click on MARGINS)

4  Add Header - when appropriate (Click on VIEW, then HEADER)

5.  Add Footer when appropriate  (Click on View, then FOOTER)