Microsoft Word Primary

Overview

A comprehensive course, which covers the essential features of Word. This course will enable delegates to produce professional documents incorporating character and paragraph formatting, page layout, WordArt, tables and printing.


Course objectives The course is designed to provide delegates with a good basic understanding of Word and enable them to create professional word processing documents.

By the end of this course you will have learned How to create, open and save documents; basic document editing; how to use undo and redo; how to check spelling within a document; how to change the appearance of text and paragraphs; how to navigate around a Word document; how to find and replace text; how to use AutoText and AutoCorrect; how to incorporate bullet points and numbering; how to insert and modify WordArt; how to print and change print setup; how to create tables.

Who should attend People who have little knowledge of Word processing and who would like to create their own memoranda, letters, and other documents.

Pre-requisites Delegates should have a good understanding of the Windows environment and basic PC skills.

Course synopsis

• Introduction to Microsoft Word
  Starting Microsoft Word; understanding the Word screen; shortcut menus; toolbars; keyboard shortcuts; opening/closing/saving documents; exiting word; using the office assistant
• Basic editing and formatting
  Cursors and cursor movement; using Go To; inserting and deleting text; word wrap; selecting text; undo and redo; applying font attributes; text alignment; moving and copying text; page borders; paragraph and text borders
• Viewing and more editing features
  Zoom option; views of the document; switch between documents; find and replace; spell checker; autocorrect; case conversion; format painter; autotext
• Paragraph formatting
  What is a paragraph; selecting a paragraph; indents; units of measure; line spacing
• Tables
  Creating a table; editing a table; selecting cells within a table; inserting/deleting rows and columns; altering column widths and row height; borders and shading; autoformat in tables; splitting and merging cells
• Bullets and numbering
  Bullets; numbers; outline numbering
• Page setup and printing
  Pagination; margins, page size and orientation; automatic page numbering; printing; print preview
• WordArt
  Inserting WordArt; adding colour effects