Intermediate Microsoft Word

About the Course

Designed for
Aimed at users who wish to take themselves one step further in the use of Microsoft Word. This course provides candidates with practical experience of the topics listed in the course outline. On completion, candidates should have an excellent knowledge of the basic concepts and a working knowledge of some advanced features.

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 basic understanding of Microsoft Word to an introductory level, be competent Windows users and be familiar with the basics of file and disk management.

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 one day in duration

Course Outline

CUSTOMISING MICROSOFT WORD
Microsoft Word templates
Saving documents to a specific location
Saving document using different formats
Using the Zoom
Page views
Controlling the display of items within
Microsoft Word
Screen display options
Modifying Word options
Hyphenation
Setting automatic hyphenation
Hyphenation options

TEXT EDITING
Inserting special characters and symbols
AutoCorrect options
AutoFormat as you type
Animated text effects
Text wrapping options
Text orientation formatting options
WordArt

PARAGRAPH EDITING
Paragraph shading options
Paragraph border options
Reversing the colour of a paragraph
Widow paragraphs and orphan paragraphs

STYLES
Applying styles
Modifying styles
Creating styles
Using Outline View with header styles
Viewing a document in Outline View
Creating a document in Outline view

TEMPLATES
Creating a new template based on an
existing document or template
Customising Normal.dotm
Recreating a default Normal.dotm file

SECTION BREAKS
Creating sections within a document
Viewing and deleting section breaks within a document

COLUMNS
Creating multiple column layouts
Additional column formatting options, width and spacing
Applying and deleting column breaks

TABLES
Creating a table
Sorting data within a table
Formulas and tables
Merging and splitting cells within a table
Merging cells
Splitting cells

GRAPHICS
Inserting Shapes
Reordering graphics
Placing a graphic in front or behind text
Modifying image colours and borders
Grouping or ungrouping shapes
Inserting a watermark

TEXT BOXES
Inserting a Text Box
Resizing, moving and deleting a Text Box
Inserting text or a graphic into a Text Box
Formatting Text Boxes
Linking Text Boxes

MAIL MERGE
Starting the Mail Merge Wizard
Using the Mail Merge Wizard
Creating a mailing list to be used within a mail merge
Merging a mailing list to produce labels