Depending on what technique you use, you can scan a printed page of text
into Word as text or as a picture of the page.
If you scanned a picture (click and the whole page is selected -- you can't
select individual words or letters) you can't edit it.
You may need an OCR program to interpret the scan as letters and words etc.
If you want to edit a picture you scanned into Word, your options may be
limited. Word has some built-in image editing tools, but you may prefer to
use a separate graphics program to edit a picture before you import it into
Word.
Leave it until Monday by all means but the problem will still be the same.
Unless you scanned the text into OCR software to convert it to editable
text, it will still be a graphical representation of the text and will not
be editable. Later versions of Word came with Microsoft Document Imaging (a
rudimentary OCT package) but I seem to recall that this was not available
with Word 2000 (2000 users will no doubt confirm) so you will need third
party OCR software such as Finereader to make your scanned text editable.
Check what software came with the scanner, as most scanner makers bundle
something that will do the job.
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