Sunday 8 January 2012

Childrens worksheets

Hello All,
A minimal-technical post today.
I was at Church and saw some of the Sunday School teachers had been trying to build a childrens worksheet. You know the kind, with some of the text is dashed, so the kids can do it themselves.
Anyway, I offered to explain how to do this properly, so here it is.

1) Get a suitable dashed/dotted font.
I quick google will help you, but http://www.fontspace.com/category/dashed seems to give a few good choices. So pick one which looks good and download it.
(I found the 'Trace' font a little faint, but the 'Print Clearly' was much better.  But you can decide for yourself.)

2) Install the font
This is simple, unzip the file and double click on the font file.  It will open up into a preview mode. After that you just click on the 'install' button, nothing to it.
(Sorry, I'm not sure about how to do this on a Mac, I'm a PC guy. But it should be simple, Apple makes a big thing about how easy they are to use.)

3) Use the font
Start up your favourite word processor and just type away. Then select the text you want the kids to write and change the font to the dashed font.

4) Print and Use
Thats it really, nothing too it.
Just one word of note: if you want to email your document to your friends, you may also need to email them the font as well.

Thats All Folks,
Mark

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