Category Game
Directions for Tables within Microsoft Word

Goal: To create a table and practice placing data within the table in a Microsoft Word Document.


Directions:

  1. Start Microsoft Word and center the title: The Category Game; then touch Enter
  2. On line 2, type your name
  3. Touch Enter 2 times
  4. Click on Table: Insert: Table and make a table that is 4 columns and 9 rows - Save what you've done so far!
  5. In the 1st column, 2nd row, write the word CATEGORY - 1 letter per row
  6. In the 1st row, 2nd column - key in Foods; 3rd column - key in Cities; 4th column - key in Animals
  7. Select everything (highlight the entire table), make the font size 20 and center; Save
  8. To complete the data table, fill in the cells in 'Foods' column with a food that begins with the letter of each row.  Continue in the same way with names of Michigan cities in the 3rd column, and names of animals in the last column.
  9. Print your 'Category Game' when you've filled in all of data required
Are you stumped on cities in Michigan???  Check out this map, to help you!
Maybe a list of cities would help you more!

Example:


Foods
Cities
Animals
S
Steak
Saginaw
Seal
A
Apple
Ann Arbor
Alligator
M
Mushroom
Muskegon
Meerkat
P
Pizza
Petoskey
Penguin
L
Lasagna
Lansing
Lion
E
Egg
Erie
Elephant

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