Create a Timeline in MS Word
Technology for Classroom Teachers
Marilyn Western
1. Open a MS Word document. Save as timeline. 2. Click on Table and Insert and Table. 3. Make your table 8 columns and 1 row. 4. Click in the first cell in the table. Type in the first year of your first time period. 5. Fill in the rest of the cells in the table with first year of the remaining time periods. 6. Select the text box from the Drawing toolbar. Click and drag a text box. 7. Type in the actual year in which your important event took place. Hit Enter. 8. Type a short description of the event or an interesting fact, etc. 9. Move the text box under the correct time period. 10. Continue making text boxes and placing them under their time periods. 11. Select the arrow tool on the Drawing toolbar. Draw an arrow from your time period table to its text box event. 12. Continue with the rest of the events. For some oo la la: 1. Use WordArt for the title of your timeline. 2. Select the text in a text box. Click on Format and Text direction. Make the text read sideways to your timeline table. 3. Insert pictures below text boxes or above the timeline table.
1930
Shel Silverstein born September 25, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois
1940
1950
Drew cartoons for Playboy magazine
1960
1968 Wrote A Boy Named Sue
1970
1980
1992Wrote a Light in the Attic
1990
Shel died 9 May 9, 1999 in Key West, Florida
2000
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