Course Objectives

This one day course covers word processing essentials and continues on to more advanced commands. The main objectives are to make users aware of how to operate the program at a routine level, to have confidence to use the program on their own, and to be aware of the potential of this powerful computer tool.

Who Should Attend?

Any potential user of Word will benefit from attending this course. Previous experience of word processing will not be assumed, although some knowledge of computer basics and working with Windows is expected. The topics covered on our "Introduction to Microsoft Windows" course are an adequate prerequisite for this course.

Course Contents

Understand the Word screen.

• Toolbars
• View commands
• Ruler bar

File commands.

• New
• Save
• Open
• Close
• Print

Edit a written document.

• Insert text
• Erase text
• Overtype text

Navigate within a document, using keyboard navigation keys.

Character Formats.

• Bold
• Italics
• Underline
• Size
• Font

Paragraph Formats.

• Alignment
• Line Spacing

Move and copy text.

An Introduction to Tabs.

• Understanding what a tab is
• Using the pre-set tabs
• Setting tabs

Longer Documents.

• Create page breaks
• Page numbers
• Headers and Footers

The Word Tools.

• Spell checker
• Thesaurus
• Grammar checker

An Introduction to Tables.

• Creating simple tables
• Formatting tables

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