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
- 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
