Word Processing – Microsoft Word
Course duration : 6 to 9 hrs
Microsoft word is the worlds most popular word processing software. Word can be used to produce basic letters and reports as well as high-level desktop publishing material. Automated features will allow you produce with ease professional documents.
This Microsoft Word course goes beyond Word’s basic features giving existing Word users additional skills in the use of many features and functions of this software, making them more efficient and effective when using the package. The course is geared towards users requiring skills to produce professional documents and to further streamline and automate repetitive tasks in Word with macros.
The course starts by refreshing students on the fundamental features of Word but advances quickly to include detailed coverage of areas such as Headers and Footers, Styles, Table of Contents, Footnotes, Endnotes and Bookmarks. This course also covers Columns and Word’s Mail Merge feature.
BEGINNERS
- Getting started
- Your first document
- Printing a document
- Moving around a document
- Opening & closing documents
- New document windows
- Selecting text
- Deleting & undeleting text
- Aligning text
- Bold, underline & italic
- Cut, copy & move text
- Views & toolbars
- Numbered points
- Indenting text
- Default tab stops
- Undo & redo
- Spelling & Grammar checker
- Print Preview
- Headers & Footers
- Envelopes & labels
- Page layouts
INTERMEDIATE WITH ADVANCED FEATURES
- Formatting documents
- Using Spell Check, Thesaurus, Word Count
- Inserting symbols and Special Characters
- Modifying Page Setup – Margins
- Collect and Paste (New XP Clipboard)
- Bullets and Numbering (Customising)
- Printing
- Odd & even pages
- Print Options
- Styles
- Use existing Styles
- Creating New Styles
- Modifying Styles
- Applying Styles
- Headers and Footers
- Creating standard Headers & Footers
- Creating different Headers & Footers
- Creating a different first page header or footer.
- Creating Columns
- Specifying Column Width
- Inserting Column breaks
- Inserting Vertical lines between columns
- Using Macros
- Recording a Macro
- Assigning a Macro
- Editing a Macro
- Deleting a Macro
- Password protecting documents
- Table of Contents
- Creating a Table of Contents from Styles
- Updating a Table of Contents
- Creating Footnotes and Endnotes
- Creating Bookmarks
- Mail Merge Feature
- Creating a Mail Merge
- Creating a Data Source
- Use an existing Data Source from Excel or Access
- Adding merge fields and Merge Document
