Word 2000 - intermediate

course description

this hands-on course is designed to enhance the skill of experienced word 2000 users. delegates will master advanced techniques to produce consistent, professional documents. realistic case studies will be used as practical activities to reinforce the topics covered, including template creation and mail merge.

target audience

experienced users of word 2000

at course completion

after completing this course, participants will be able to:

• create and modify text styles to produce consistently formatted documents
• create and modify document templates
• use a variety of fields
• generate and print mail merge documents in various formats, including form letters and labels
• control and manage the structure of long documents

prerequisites
to benefit fully from this course, participants are expected to be confident word 2000 users and be familiar with the topics covered in the word 2000 foundation course.

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topics

work with styles-modify and apply built-in styles; create new styles; copy and delete styles; organise autotext entries; autotext categories; create automatic autotext entries based on styles

create document templates-create new templates; save documents as templates; identify items stored in templates; working with dates; automate templates with word fields and form fields; autotext entries and templates

more about fields-bookmarks; cross-references; update, lock and unlink fields; text placeholders; style and page references; hyperlinks; use autotext as a field

mail merge-create a variety of main documents including letters, labels, ''''catalog'''' and address labels; attach data source files; specify conditional records to print using fields and merge options

work with long documents-pagination and page numbering; include text from other documents; outline and document map; index and table of contents; section breaks if time allows.

working with graphics-the drawing toolbar; watermarks; officeart; web options; recording macros and customising toolbars.