Word Beginning Course Description:
This full-day course is designed for users who want to learn the basics of Microsoft Word. It’s also a great refresher course for those who haven’t used Word in a while. Microsoft Word is the gold standard for word processing, and it offers a wide variety of features designed to make creating professional-looking documents a snap - once you’ve learned the ins and outs of the program.
Topics Covered:
- Create documents using Templates
- Create documents from “scratch”
- Navigation shortcuts
- Text selection shortcuts
- Print Options
- Format text
- Margins
- Justification
- Line Spacing
- Bullets
- Numbers
- Borders and shading
- Special symbols and characters (copyright symbols, etc.)
- Dropped Capitals (capital letters that drop down multiple lines)
- Cut and Paste
- Copy and Paste
- Format Painter (copy formatting only)
- Clipboard (makes Cut & Paste and Copy & Paste more fluid)
- Undo and Redo
- Spell Checker
- Grammar Checker
- Thesaurus
- Word Count
- Translate (change text into a different language)
- Insert Date field
- Graphics and Icons
- Text Wrap (make text flow around objects)
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Tips & Tricks
Word Intermediate Course Description:
Anyone who wants to take their word processing skills to the next level will benefit from taking this course. Learn how to create more complex documents that incorporate breaks, custom tabs, tables, headers, footers, endnotes, footnotes, diagrams, and charts. Protect your work with a password and use track changes to view and limit edits made by others.
Topics Covered:
- Breaks: (Page, Section, Column, and Next Page)
- Keep Lines Together so paragraphs don’t break across pages
- Keep With Next feature keeps a heading and paragraph together
- Columns
- Custom Tabs and Indents
- Use the Ruler
- Page Numbers
- Headers and Footers
- Footnotes and Endnotes
- Hyperlinks to websites, files, and locations within a Word document
- Bookmarks (used in conjunction with Hyperlinks)
- Track Changes: Accept or reject changes made by others
- Tables
- Link and Embed Data from an Excel spreadsheet
- Charts
- SmartArt Diagrams
- Templates
- Watermarks
- Password Protect your document to restrict editing
Word Advanced Course Description:
Microsoft Word users who work with large, complex documents can benefit from taking this class, which explores features like Styles. Use Mail Merge for letters, labels, and envelopes. Add a Table of Contents, an Index, a Table of Figures (a list of tables and graphics), a Table of Authorities (law offices), Bibliographies (a list of sources used), and more. Create basic Macros to automate repetitive tasks, and many other useful Word features.
Topics Covered:
- Create Styles
- Modify Styles
- Manage Styles
- Copy Styles from one document to another
- Mail Merge
- Create a Mail Merge list of names and addresses
- Envelopes (single or multiple envelopes)
- Labels (single or multiple labels)
- Table of Contents
- Index
- Table of Figures
- Bibliography
- Table of Authorities
- Master Documents
- Outlining
- Macros
- AutoText
- Fields and Forms
