WordProcessing

Word Basic
Word Advanced

Word Unit 1 (up to 9 Hours):

Recommended Prerequisite:  Computer Basics

In this course, you will learn how to navigate documents, enter text, and save files.  We will show you shortcuts to select text, work with toolbars and menus, use the Office Clipboard, and learn features such as drag-and-drop, find and replace, spell checking, and grammar rules.  Learn to change fonts, font attributes, align text, and apply character effects.  Add pizzazz to your document by using borders and shading, bullets and numbering, indenting paragraphs, and by adding graphics to your page.  Learn to use headers and footers and date and time placeholders.  Format painter, a quick technique for copying formatting, will be discussed.  Examine how to use folders and find files and work with multiple views of your document.  To make sure everything is aligned properly, learn how to set margins, print settings, and view non-printing characters.  We will show you how to print preview and print documents.  We will work with page setup, borders and shading, and symbols.  Save time by using AutoText and AutoCorrect.  We’ll setup tabs, automatic page numbering, and styles.  Learn how to insert text from another file, work with breaks and spacing, indents, columns, sections, and outline numbered lists.  Use and modify graphics, set graphics options, and work with the drawing toolbar and text boxes.


Word Unit 2 (up to 9 Hours):

Recommended Prerequisite:  Word Unit 1

In this advanced course, we will insert tables into our document, and then work with the cells, format the table, and apply borders and shading.  Understand tables and diagrams.  Prepare and print envelopes and labels.  Prepare documents for the Web and create hyperlinks.  We will work with different footer sections and explore styles.  We will utilize footnotes and endnotes, fields and cross-references, and build an index and table of contents.  Discover how to modify paragraphs, use formatting techniques, change headers and footers, work with text and columns, and use graphics.  Learn to use master documents, work with expanded and locked documents, rearrange subdocuments, and split and merge subdocuments.  Insert page breaks and set paragraph formatting.  Use revision tools, collaborating with work groups, and using the track changes feature.  Work with forms and set form options.  We’ll show you how to create and run macros.  We will examine mail merge, create main documents, work with data sources, format labels, merge data and generate labels.

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