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Word Advanced

Duration:  1.5 days | Book this course
Cost: $565.00 + GST

Course Description

This intensive class covers all the advanced-end-user features of Microsoft Word. Participants will learn how to expertly manage advanced character and paragraph formatting; record, run, edit, delete, copy, and rename macros; create a mail merge; work with styles; and work with text boxes. In addition participants will learn how to create printed and online forms and understand word field codes.  Participants will also learn how to use a range of referencing options including bookmarks, footnotes, endnotes, cross-references, a table of contents, an index.  Participants will learn how to manage long documents using Master and Subdocuments.  This course will cover how to import and export files and paste, link, and embed information. Finally, in-class exercises will allow participants to share documents, track changes to documents, and work with different document versions. After completing Ardito's Word Introduction, Intermediate, and Advanced courses, students will have covered all the topics that map to the Microsoft Office User Specialist Expert certification exam.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites

Participants should have completed the Word Intermediate course or have equivalent experience. If you are unsure, please complete a Training Needs Assessment form by clicking here, or feel free to phone our Booking Administrator on (07) 857 0776.

Who Should Take This Course

Intermediate users of Microsoft Word who want to learn about and work with the software's more advanced features.

Course Objectives

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, you will have learned how to:

  1. Create and modify styles.
  2. Work with page breaks and section breaks to create unique headers and footers.
  3. Set paragraph text flow including hyphenation.
  4. Add References to a document including:
    • Table of Contents
    • Indexes
    • Bookmarks and Cross references
    • Footnotes and Endnotes
    • Captions
  5. Create fill-in forms using fields and content controls
  6. Password protect a document, add comments and track changes
  7. Create a Master document
  8. Create conditional mail merging documents
  9. Create and edit macros
  10. Understand the difference between linking and embedding
  11. Create and manipulate text boxes

Course Outline

Course Outline

Using Advanced Character and Paragraph Formatting

  • Create and edit Styles (including exporting and importing styles)
  • Setting Paragraph Text Flow and hyphenation
  • Page breaks versus section breaks
  • Inserting unique headers and footers
  • Using both landscape and portrait orientation in a document

References Options

  • Add and format a Table of Contents
  • Create an index
  • Add Bookmarks and cross references
  • Add Footnotes and Endnotes
  • Add Captions

Using the Navigation Pane

Field Codes & Fill-in Forms

  • Create fill-in forms using field codes and content controls
  • Protecting a fill-in form

Collaborative Editing and Security

  • Document password protection
  • Using comments within a document
  • Check documents for 'hidden' information
  • Use Track changes

Master Documents

  • Create and edit Master documents using Subdocuments

Conditional Mail Merging

  • Create a mail merge with specific criteria

Recording and Running Macros

  • Create a macro to automate repetitive tasks

Linking and Embedding

  • Linking and embedding objects
  • Embedding an Excel chart
  • Formatting an embedded chart within a document
  • Linking an Excel chart to a Microsoft Word document
  • Using the 'Insert Chart' command

Creating and Manipulating Text boxes

  • Linking Text Boxes Together
  • Formatting Text Boxes
  • Control Text Wrapping