Vocabulary Crossword
I.
Set Up Paper
1. Click on the Excel icon
on the desktop
2. Click into Cell AG32 or (<Ctrl> + G, then type AG32, click OK).
3. Hold the mouse button down and drag to Cell A1 (This will
highlight Cells A1 through AG32)
4. On the Home tab, under Cells, click on Format
and choose Column Width.
Type 2. Click on OK
5. On the Home tab, under Font, choose Border.
Choose All Borders
II.
Heading
6. Click on the Insert tab and choose Header and Footer
7. Click in the Right Section and type your heading: Name
ELA 8-__
Date
8. Click in the Center section. Type: Vocabulary Crossword
Midsummer Night’s Dream
9. Click on the Page Layout tab, and choose Margins and then on custom margins.
Make the Top margin 1.25”
III.
Save
10. Click on the Office Button
and choose Save As
11. Open your teacher’s folder and then your class period folder
12. Type your name at the bottom, click on Save
IV.
Type in Words
13. Tap the <Caps Lock> key so you will be typing in ALL
CAPITAL LETTERS
14. Using the attached list, type your words into the crossword
grid, one letter per square. You can go across or up and down,
but the words MUST interlock
To move down, tap the <Enter> key
To move to the right, tap the <Tab> key
15. Make sure all the words are connected.
V.
Definitions
16. Click in the first letter of the first word going across (The one that
begins closest to the top of the grid).
17. At the top Entry Bar, right before the letter, type: 1
18. Highlight the 1 in the Entry Bar.
19. Click on the arrow at the bottom corner of the Font section
20. Put a √ next to Superscript and then change the size to 8, click on OK
21. Click in Cell C34 and type: ACROSS
22. Click in Cell T33 and type: DOWN
23. Take the <Caps Lock> off
24. At the bottom of the puzzle, click into Cell A35, type: 1
25. In Cell B35, type the definition of the word
26. Continue numbering your words in the puzzle and adding the definitions at the bottom.
Every word should have a number at the beginning. Make sure the across words are in
the ACROSS column and the down words are in the DOWN column.
VI.
Graying
27. Highlight all of the squares
28. On the Home tab, click on the Paint Pail, choose the light gray color
29. Highlight a word
30. Click on the Pail Pail and choose white
31. Do this for all the words
VII.
Save and Print
32. Click on the Office Button and choose Save
33. Click on the Office Button and choose Print, Click on OK
Words:
Abjure
Languished
Amiable
Lanthorn
Audacious
Laud
Beguile
Loathed
Chide
Nuptial
Derision
Perforce
Discord
Preposterously
Disdainful
Prologue
Dotage
Rebuke
Dote
Reprehend
Engilds
Scorn
Expound
Sojourned
Filch
Tawny
Griffin
Thyme
Hobgoblin
Transpose
Interlude
Vexation
Lamentable
Vile