It is very useful to be able to create Word documents which have equations in them and graphics, such as the graphs of functions. Here I will describe an example I made up. You can download the Word document or see the result as a web page. Unfortunately, on my browser (Netscape for IRIX), the web page doesn't display properly.
First, I decided what functions I wanted to plot and used Maple to plot them. You can download the Maple worksheet or view the output on a web page. When I wanted to paste a graph into Word, I simply clicked on it in Maple, pulled down Edit, Copy, then went to Word and pulled down Edit, Paste. Easy! (Then I needed to change the size of the pictures; see below.)
Then, I opened a blank Word document and added the title Parabolas. I have Word 2000. After experimenting for a little while, I found that it's hard to get text and pictures lined up as I want them, unless you put them in the cells of a table. To insert a table, I pulled down Table, Insert, Table to get this window:
I wanted two columns, four rows, and wanted the table to adjust its size to the things I put in.
Now I started filling in the cells. The left-hand cells have a little text and equations. To insert an equation, pull down Insert, Object, and select Microsoft Equation 3.0.
Now the equation editor window pops up, and you can type. Maybe someday I'll make a separate tutorial on using equation editor.
The right-hand cells have graphs. I copied and pasted these from Maple, but they were much too big when I first inserted them. So I double clicked on each graph (in Word) to get this window:
I've clicked the Size tab at the top and modified the Height to be 2 inches. I don't need to modify the width; I believe that Word maintains the original proportions (aspect ratio), so it only needs to know the height.
Then I saved the Word document and also saved it as a web page in my local folder for web pages. Then I made a link to it from this page and published it.