Word 2003 Proficient

Course Overview
Learning Word will enable you to produce professional looking documents required in any business. Writing reports will no longer be a problem as you will know how to create graphs, run macros and create an index table of contents. Successful completion of this course will enable you to work towards further qualifications.

Aims and Objectives To learn the Word program to Microsoft Office Specialist Level. The flexibility and value of a self-study course designed to enable you to work at your own pace. A personalised workbook to use as a reference guide on completion of the course. The opportunity to gain the widely recognised Pitman Training Certificate.

Target Audiences Those who wish to learn this popular word processing program.

Prerequisites Familiar with Windows environment and basic keyboarding experience.

Course duration 22 hours

Course Content Lesson 1: Including: Loading the Word program, keying in text, naming and saving a document, overtype mode, editing text, printing a document, closing a document, accessing Help. closing the program. Lesson 2: Including: Shortcut menus, the spelling and grammar feature, using the thesaurus, using the research pane, changing line and paragraph spacing, changing margins, opening an existing document, using the taskbar, undo and redo, creating a new folder, saving in a different format. Lesson 3: Including: Automatic date and time, modifying field format, envelopes/labels, screen views, page breaks, text enhancement, fonts, size and colour, alignment, applying font effects, highlighting text. Lesson 4: Including: AutoCorrect and AutoText, using a wizard to create a new document, setting tabulation stops in order to display text and figures. Lesson 5: Including: Cut, copy and paste. the office clipboard, Format painter. Lesson 6: Including: Find and replace, the browse feature, bullets and numbering, headers and footers, page numbering, aligning text vertically. Lesson 7: Including: Inserting a table in a document, inserting and deleting rows, sorting text, merging cells, rotating text, AutoSum, borders and shading, indenting text specifically, page orientation, creating a template from an existing document. Lesson 8: Including: Creating drawing objects, inserting and modifying WordArt, inserting and modifying ClipArt, inserting symbols, formatting text into columns, inserting column breaks. Lesson 9: Including: Applying and modifying styles, working in outline view. using document map, comparing and merging documents, adding, removing and editing comments. Lesson 10: Including: Viewing a document in web page preview, web layout view, saving a document as a web page, using email in Word, inserting a hyperlink, creating and modifying charts and diagrams.