Course Details
1. Explore Word
- Working in the user interface
- Creating, editing text and saving documents
o Creating a new blank document o Entering text
o Saving the document o Saving into a new folder
o Compatibility with older versions
- Opening, Moving around in and closing Documents
- Viewing documents in different ways
- Switching between different views o Displaying non-printing characters o Zooming in the document
o Switching between different word
documents
o Arranging windows of open documents o Displaying rulers in document window
2. Editing and Proofread Text
- Making text changes o Selecting text o Deleting text o Drag and drop
o Cut, Copy and Paste o Paste Options
o Undo and redo
- Office clipboard
- Find and replace text
- Using find and replace
- Navigation pane
- Fine-tuning text
- Thesaurus
- Mini-translator
- Correcting spelling and grammatical errors
- Viewing document statistics
- Inserting saved text
- Building Blocks
- Create a new building block
- Inserting one document into another
3. Changing the Look of Text
- Quickly formatting text o Paragraph styles o Character Styles
- Changing a documents theme
- Switching between different themes
- Saving a new theme
- Manually changing the look of characters
- Changing font, font size and font colour
- Bold, Italic and Underline
- Using the Mini Toolbar
- Format Painter
- Font dialog box
- Highlight text
- Clear Formatting
- Manually changing the look of paragraphs
- Indenting
- First Line and hanging indents
- Paragraph alignment
- Setting up Tabs
- Adjusting line spacing
- Paragraph spacing
- Borders and Shading
- Character formatting and case considerations
- Find and replace formatting
- Creating and modifying lists
- Customizing bullets and numbering o Sorting lists
- Formatting text as you type
4. Organizing Information in Columns and Tables
- Presenting information in columns o Inserting columns
o Justify paragraphs o Column options
- Creating tabbed lists
- Presenting info in tables
- Inserting a table
- Inserting and deleting columns and rows o Resizing columns
o Merge cells
o Table alignment
o Converting text to table
- Performing calculations in tables
- Other layout options
- Formatting tables
- Table style
Add Simple Graphic Elements
- Inserting and modifying pictures o Insert Picture
o Resize and crop a picture
o Picture corrections and picture styles o Artistic effects
- About ClipArt
- Changing a document background
- Inserting Building Blocks
- Inserting a Cover page o Inserting Page Numbers o Headers and Footers
- Drawing text boxes
- Adding Word Art
- Insert Word Art into the document o Wrap text around Word Art
- Formatting the first letter of a paragraph
6. Preview, Print and Distribute Documents
- Previewing and adjusting page layout
- Adjusting Page size and orientation
- Setting up margins
- Controlling what happens on each page
- Page breaks
- Section breaks
- Printing documents
- Preparing documents for electronic distribution
- Marking a document as final