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Overview and objectives
This one-day course is designed to help you to obtain the basic skills
required to create simple documents using Microsoft Word. You will learn
to create, edit, format, print, and review short documents such as
letters and memos. You will learn to apply basic page, paragraph, and
character formatting options, create a document from a template, insert
pictures and clip art, and create a simple table. You will also learn to
review a document using features of Word.
Target audience
This course has been created for students wanting to obtain basic skills
in using a word processor to create, format, and print simple documents,
such as letters or memos.
Course prerequisites
Ideally, you will have completed the course "Microsoft Office 2003 and
Windows XP Introduction". You should be able to use Microsoft Windows
and basic functions in Office to start an application, get help, and
open, close, and save files.
Course contents
What is Word?
Understand the functions of text editor, word processor, and DTP applications
• Recognise the different elements of the Word application window
Creating a Document
Create a new document • Enter text • Change page display modes (Print Layout,
Normal, Reading Layout, Full Screen) • Use zoom to view a document at different
magnification
Editing a Document
Move the insertion point • Select text • Insert new text • Use Click-and-Type
• Type over existing text • Delete text • Use the Undo, Redo, and Repeat
commands • Insert the date and time • Insert symbols and special characters •
Use the automatic spelling checker
Moving and Copying Data
Cut, Copy, and Paste with the Windows Clipboard using the menu, toolbar, and
keyboard • Move and copy text from one document to another • Use the Paste
Options smart tag to change the format of pasted text • Use drag-and-drop to
move and copy text • Use Paste Special to choose different formats for data
Page Setup
Set the default measurement units • Show and hide the rulers • Set page
orientation and paper size • Set margins • Insert page breaks
Paragraph Layout
Set left, right, hanging, and first line indents • Align paragraphs relative
to the margins • Control automatic hyphenation of words • Set line and paragraph
spacing options • Remove paragraph formats
Character Formatting
Select and change font and font size • Apply font formats (bold, underline and
italics) • Apply character effects and colours • Copy formats using the Format
Painter • Remove text enhancements
Printing a Document
Use Print Preview • Print a document • Print the current page, selected text,
or a range of pages • Print multiple copies of a document • Set print options •
Cancel a print job • Troubleshoot printing
Using a Template
Use a template to create a new document • Create a new document using a wizard
• Work within a document created from a template
Applying a Style
Apply a paragraph style • Apply a character style • Apply a list style • Apply
a table style • Use the Styles and Formatting pane
Formatting a Simple List
Start a bulleted or numbered list automatically • Add bullets and numbering to
a list • Change the appearance of bullet characters
Inserting Pictures and Clip Art
Understand Object Linking and Embedding • Insert a Clip Art object • Insert a
picture from a file • Insert a Print Screen graphic • Insert an image from a
scanner or digital camera • Modify a picture using the Picture toolbar • Crop a
picture
Headers and Footers
Create and modify headers and footers • Insert fields in headers and footers
to show variable data (page number, date, file location, author, document title,
file name) • Format page numbering
Creating a Table
Draw or create a table using the Draw Table tool or Insert Table command •
Apply Auto Formatting to a table • Move the insertion point around in a table •
Edit cell contents • Insert and delete columns and rows • Change the height and
width of rows and columns • Add borders and shading to a table
Proofing Tools
Use the Spelling and Grammar Checker to correct errors in a document • Add
unrecognised words to the custom dictionary • Use the Browse Selector and Go To
locate specific elements in a document • Find and replace text
Basic Reviewing Tools
Show, hide, and print document mark-up • Add and review document comments •
Highlight text in document
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