Mac Word Introduction

Course Contents

Screen Layout

• Title Bar
• Menu Bar
• Toolbars
• Scrollbars
• Task Pane
• Ask a question

Word Processing Essential Principles

• Entering and Editing Text
• Name, Address and Date Smart Tags
• Word wrap
• Use of Show/Hide
• Saving Files, Opening Files
• Printing

Viewing Your Documents

• Normal View
• Web Layout
• Print Layout
• Print Preview
• Multiple Documents

Efficient Navigation

• Using Scrollbars
• Using Browse Object
• Go To
• Useful Keyboard Shortcuts

Selecting Text

• Selecting text using the Mouse
• Selecting text using the Keyboard
• Quick ways to select words, sentences, paragraphs
• Selecting non-concurrent text

Editing Tools

• Cut, Copy and Paste
• The Clipboard Task pane
• Paste Special

Enhancing Text With Formatting

• Using Font level formats
• Changing font type, size, colour, special effects, character spacing
• Changing the default font for all new documents
• Using Paragraph level formats
• Paragraph justification, indentation, space before and after
• Line and page break options
• Inserting non breaking hyphens and spaces
• Applying borders and shading
• Creating numbered and bulleted lists
• Format Painter
• Styles and Formatting Task Pane
• Revealing formatting
• Clearing formatting

Arranging Text using Tabs

• Using default tabs
• Changing ruler measurement units
• Setting your own tabs
• Using leader tabs
• Using bar tabs

Proofing Tools

• Find and Replace
• Word Count toolbar
• Spell Checker

Essential Page Layout Tools

• Inserting page breaks
• Inserting section breaks
• Changing page orientation
• Adding Headers and Footers
• Page numbering
• Changing Margins
• Adding a Page Border
• Watermarks