ECDL Advanced Module 3 – Word Processing
About the Course
Designed for
Aimed at users who have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Word’s basic and intermediate principles, this course provides candidates with practical experience of the topics listed in course outline. On completion, candidates should be equipped with the necessary skills to produce complex documents and integrate them with output from other Windows applications.
Teaching Approach
The teaching approach contains a mix of lectures, practical and one-to-one work and varies according to the people attending. For the most part, candidates are able to work at a pace which best suits them, and emphasis is placed upon quality of learning, rather than quantity.
Requirements
Those attending should have a good understanding of Microsoft Word to ECDL basic level, be competent Windows users and be familiar with the basics of file and disk management (including directories). Prior completion of ECDL Module 3 is essential.
Course Material
A large part of each course is spent with a set of specially prepared exercises and projects so that those attending gain firm foundations through their own practical experience. Professionally presented course notes are provided and these may be retained for reference afterwards.
Duration
This training program is two days in duration or six evenings, 3 hours per evening, for groups only.
Module Content
Editing with Microsoft Word
-Text effect options
-Automatic text correction options
-Wrapping, and orientation options
– Paragraph border and shading
– Paragraph widow and orphan controls
– modify or create paragraph styles
– Add, remove or edit comments
– Track changes in a document
Layout Options
-Master document features
-Add or remove a sub-document within a master document
-Create a table of contents
-Update and modify a table of contents
-Create sections in a document
-Create and modify column layouts
-Insert or delete a column break
Document Organisation
-Add or delete a bookmark
-Create or edit an index
-Create or delete a cross-reference
-Insert, edit or update a field code
-Lock or unlock a field
-Create, modify or delete footnotes and endnotes
-Add or remove password protection
Document Elements
-Merge and split cells in a table
-Convert tabbed text into a table
-Sort data in a table
-Perform addition calculations on a numeric list in a table
-Create and edit a form
-Protect a form
-Insert, delete or edit text boxes
-Apply border and shading options
-Link text boxes
-Modify an embedded spreadsheet in a document
-Create a chart from a worksheet in a document
-Modify image borders
-Create a drawing using the drawing options
-Use pre-defined shapes options
-Send pre-defined shapes to back or front
-Send pre-defined shapes in front of or behind text
-Group or ungroup pre-defined shapes
-Add a watermark to a document
-Add or update a caption to an image
Special Tools
-Edit a mail merge data source or data file
-Sort data source or data file records
-Merge a document with a data source or data file using given merge criteria
-Record a simple macro
-Copy a macro
-Run a macro
-Assign a macro to a custom button on a toolbar.
Printing Options
-Print odd number pages only
-Print even number pages only
-Print a defined selection
-Print a defined number of pages per sheet