MS Word Scavenger Hunt
5th Grade
Warm up
Create a folder with your name on the
desktop
Get the warm-up doc file from the web
✶www.cse.scu.edu/~sfigueira/eds/text1.doc
Save the file into the new folder
Warm up
Practice highlighting
✶One word
Place the cursor on the spot and click twice
✶One paragraph
Place the cursor on the spot and click three
times
Warm up
Practice highlighting and over-writing
✶When a text is highlighted you can type
over it
Warm up
Practice changing highlighted text to a
✶Different font
✶Different size font
✶Bold font: command-b
✶Underlined: command-u
✶Italic: command-i
Warm up
Practice searching
✶Use command-F to search for words
Warm up
Practice including pictures
✶Get a cool picture from the web and include
at the end of the file
Use google images
Use command-C and command-V to copy the
picture
✶Make the picture smaller and larger in the
text
Scavenger Hunt
Get the doc file from the web
✶www.cse.scu.edu/~sfigueira/eds/text2.doc
Save the file into the new folder
Scavenger Hunt - Tasks
1. Make the title and headers bigger and bold
2. Change the font of the 1st and last paragraph to
2 different fonts
3. Change all the words energy to uppercase
4. Change all the words water to bold
5. Underline all the words money
6. Change the color of all the words recycling to
red
7. Change all the words environment to italic
8. Include a picture related to the text at the end
of the text.