Duration: 1 day | Book this course
Cost: $275.00 + GST
Course Description
This comprehensive beginning course in Word teaches participants how to manage documents, get help, and make simple editing changes; edit, check, and format text; change the page layout and view, and use page numbers, headers and footers; change paragraph formatting; and preview and print documents.
Prerequisites
Familiarity with the Windows operating system is essential. If you are unsure, you may phone our Bookings Administrator on (07) 857.0770 or (09) 630.1220 to request for a Training Needs Assessment form.
Who Should Take This Course
New users of Microsoft Word.
Course Objectives
Upon completing this course, you will have learned how to:- Manage documents, get help, and make simple editing changes.
Edit and check text. - Format text.
- Change the page layout and view, and use page numbers, headers and footers.
- Change paragraph formatting.
- Preview and print your document.
Course Outline
The Microsoft Word 2007 Screen
Starting to Use Microsoft Word 2007
- Using the default Microsoft Word document
- Saving Microsoft Word documents
- Opening and closing documents
- Saving your file using a different file name
- Creating a new document
- Using Help within Microsoft Word
Text Formatting
- What is text formatting?
- Applying font types, sizes, and colours
- Changing cases
- Text highlighting
- Copying text formatting
- Removing text formatting
Manipulating Text
- Select, then format
- Inserting, deleting, undo and redo
- Insert and overtype mode
- Copying text within a document
- The Clipboard
- Moving (cutting) text within a document
Paragraph Formatting
- What is paragraph formatting?
- Aligning text
- Indenting paragraphs
- Applying single or double line spacing within paragraphs
- Adding borders and shading
- Finding and replacing text
- Setting Tabs
- Overview of Styles formatting
Page Formatting
- What is page formatting?
- Setting page orientation, paper size, and margins
- Setting page breaks
- Inserting headers and footers
- Applying page numbering
- Inserting a cover page
Tables
- Using Tables
- Inserting a table
- Navigating within a table
- Inserting and deleting rows and columns
- Modifying column width or row height
- Adding shading to cells
- Modifying cell border width, colour and style
Graphics
- Using graphics within Microsoft Word
- Inserting Pictures
- Inserting Clip Art
- Inserting Shapes
- Inserting Smart Art
- Selecting, resizing and deleting graphics
- Copying or moving graphics
Multiple Documents
- Using multiple documents within Microsoft Word
- Switching between open documents
- Tiling or cascading documents on your screen
- Comparing documents side by side
- Copying or moving selected items between documents
Proofing and Printing
- The importance of proofing
- Spell checking a document
- Adding words to the built-in custom dictionary
- Removing a word from the spell checking dictionary
- Printing optionsÂ
- Printing only odd or even pages
- Previewing and printing a documen