Go to Clarisworks and choose DRAWING. To make a crossword or wordsearch you will need a spreadsheet. In the toolbar choose the icon under the arrow. Click on this. We will call this a cross (The second one down on the left). Click on the page and drag the box to the size you want then let go. You will have a spreadsheet for your crossword or wordsearch.
Make sure the toolbar is on the cross. Then go to the spreadsheet and click and hold on A box and drag diagonally across the grid to the bottom right hand corner. This should highlight the spreadsheet.
Now go to Options and click and hold. Drag down to display and let go. Click off column headings and row headings. This will give you just the boxes. Also click on solid lines. Now click OK.
To make the rectangles into squares go toFormat at the top of the screen and click and hold. Drag down to column width and let go. ( Make sure the spreadsheet is still highlighted). Make the number in the highlighted box smaller. For example if the number is 72pt. change the number to 50 and click OK. See if this is what you want. If it is-GREAT. If it isn't what you want go back to Format and click and hold. Drag down to column width and change the number and click OK. To increase the sizes of the boxes go to Format , click and hold, drag down to Row height . Make this number larger.
If you need more boxes, click once on a corner of your chart. A small black square should appear on all 4 corners. Click on this small box and hold and drag. This will make the chart bigger or smaller depending on the direction you pull.
You may need to then resize your boxes. Highlight the boxes by clicking on the box you want to start changing the size. Then click and drag to highlight all the boxes you want resized. Then go to Format and change the column width or row height just like you did above.
To center the letter in the boxes first highlight the entire wordwearch (Go to the box in the upper left hand corner and click. The box will be highlighted. Now click and drag diagonally to the box in the lower right hand corner. This will highlight the entire spreadsheet). Go to the top of the screen to Format . Click and hold then drag down to allignment, then to center and let go. This will center your letter inside the box. Now go back to your wordfind and click on a box. You can now enter your letter and press return.
Make sure you save your work. To do this go to File and click and hold. Drag down to Save . Type your first AND last name in the highlighted box. Press return.
To print the page go to File . Click and hold and drag down to print and let go. Then press return.
To do a crossword you will need to follow the same procedure as a wordsearch. You will need to darken boxes that are not going to be used. To do this highlight the box you want to darken by clicking on it. Then go to the toolbox and go down to the first color chart. Click and hold drag to a black or grey color and let go. This will darken the box.
MAKE SURE YOU SAVE YOUR WORK!!!
To type in your questions you will need to go back to ClarisWorks and Word Processing. Put a title on by following the directions given in the REPORT part of your project.
Don't forget you need 2 copies of this part of the project. One copy is the original, the other copy is the key.
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