By
Thach
Nguyen
For those of you new to the online world, the Internet is a vast collection of
computer networks that spans the entire planet, made up of many smaller
networks connected by standard telephone lines, fiber optics, and satellites.
The term Intranet refers to a
private and usually secure local or wide area network that uses Internet
technologies to share information. To access the Internet, you need a network
or modem connection that links your computer to your account on the
university’s network or an Independent Service Provider (ISP).
Once
you are connected to the Internet, you can use Web browser software, such as
Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, to access the World Wide Web. The Web provides a
visual interface for the Internet and lets you search for information by simply
clicking on highlighted words and images, known as hyperlinks. When you click a link, you are telling your computer’s
Web browser to retrieve a page from a Web site and display it on your screen.
Not only can you publish your documents on the Web, you can incorporate
hyperlinks directly within a document to facilitate navigating between
documents.
Word
makes it easy to convert a document for display on the World Wide Web. The
process involves saving the document to HTML
(Hypertext Markup Language) format for publishing to a Web server. Once saved
using the proper format, you may upload the files to your company’s Intranet or
to a Web server.
To
preview how a document will appear on a Web page, choose File, Web Page
Preview.
