Word 2003 Essential Skills
Course Information
This one-day course is designed to introduce delegates to the concepts and functionality of a word processor.
Delegates will be able to use Word efficiently and confidently by creating documents to a good standard using simple editing and formatting techniques.
Pre-requisites
Those attending this course should have a basic understanding of the Windows environment and be comfortable with using a mouse.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course delegates will be able to:
- Recognise the different elements that comprise the Word screen.
- Create, save and retrieve a document.
- Edit text within a document using controlled deletion methods and utilising the Undo and Redo tools.
- Apply character formatting to enhance the physical appearance of text.
- Adjust the paragraph formatting to control the placement of text on the page.
- Utilise the spelling and grammar checking features.
- Move and copy text within a document and between two different documents.
- Control the way in which the document is seen on screen using the View and Zoom tools.
- Change the margins of a document.
- Change the paper orientation.
- Print the document specifying the range of pages to print and the number of copies required.
- Create AutoText entries to speed the insertion of frequently used text.
- Utilise the Office Assistant & Help features.
What you will learn:
Lesson 1 – Creating a New Document
Open Word
Create a document
Saving a document
Lesson 2 – Character Formatting
Opening an existing document
Changing font attributes
Apply special effects
Printing a document
Lesson 3 – The Proofing Tools
Checking spelling and grammar errors
Adding auto text entries
Using the thesaurus
Lesson 4 – Alignment and Line Spacing
Changing paragraph alignment
Changing line spacing
Lesson 5 – Indentation
Indenting using the ruler and indent icon
Format paragraph menu
Applying hanging indent
Lesson 6 – Tabs
Setting and moving tabs
Line spacing
Lesson 7 – Cut, Copy and Paste
Moving and copying information within a document
Copying information into a new document
Lesson 8 – Document Views & Save As
View icons
Document map
Lesson 9 – Page and Paper Settings
Changing margins
Changing paper orientation
Changing vertical alignment
Lesson 10 – Printing
Print preview
Editing in print preview
Printing specific page ranges and multiple copies
Lesson 11 – Working with AutoText
Create and insert an AutoText entry
Edit an AutoText entry
Lesson 12 – File handling
Creating new folders
Moving and copying files