Introduction to Word

Duration: TWO DAYS

Pre-requisites:

Delegates should have a basic understanding of PCs, use of the keyboard and mouse, plus a working knowledge of the Windows environment, gained either from the workplace or by attending an introduction to Windows course

Course Objectives:

After attending the course, delegates should be confident in creating, editing and printing documents 

Course Content for Day One:

Basics: 

Creating, editing, saving, renaming and abandoning documents

Creating and opening documents from the desktop

Using supplied Templates and Wizards

Using the File Starter

Understanding AutoSelect

Using the Standard and Formatting toolbars 

Editing: 

Moving around a document

Selecting text, deleting text

The significance of the paragraph end marker and new lines

Insert and typeover modes

Undoing typing and commands

Using the screen tips 

Enhancing document appearance:

Character formats

Bold, italic and underline (single, double and word)

Fonts and point sizes

Superscript and subscript

Setting the default

Paragraph formats:

Alignment Spacing (line and paragraph)

Indenting (including hanging indents)

Pagination

Page formats:

Page margins

Orientation

Headers and footers

Automatic page numbering

Understanding sections

Setting defaults

Painting formats

Printing: 

Previewing

Simple printing

Multiple copies

Selected pages

Envelope

Selecting the printer 

Course Content for Day Two:

Controlling the display: 

Working in normal, page layout and full screen views

Zooming the display 

Special features: 

Using the Spell Checker,

Thesaurus and Grammar Checker

Find and Replace

AutoCorrect and short-cut menus

Tabs:

Setting and using left, centre, right and decimally aligned tab stops

Adjusting and removing tab stops

Dot Leaders for simple form design 

Moving and copying text: 

Moving and copying text within documents

Tables: 

Creating a table and typing into columns

Changing column widths and adding lines and shading

Converting tabular columns to tables

Further formatting features: 

Case conversion

Formatting drop capitals

Simple bullets and paragraph numbering

Working with symbols

Working with graphic lines, borders and paragraph shading   

AutoText:

Creating, saving and recalling AutoText entry

Inserting Autocomplete

File management:

Specifying criteria

Pre-defined searches

Manipulating multiple documents