Introduction to Microsoft Word

Word At the end of this one-day course you will be able to create and edit simple documents, format text, insert simple tables, create header and footer information and set-up for printing.

Course Outline

Essential Skills

• Understanding the interface
• Customising the Quick Access Toolbar and Status Bar.
• Opening, closing and saving files.
• Displaying the Show/Hide characters.
• Inserting and deleting page breaks.

Editing Files

• Learn time-saving techniques to quickly select content.
• Insert and remove manual page breaks.
• Correct spelling and grammar errors using Editor
• Use Find and Replace to quickly update information.
• Insert special characters such as the degree sign, accents and graves, and other symbols which are not found on a standard QWERTY keyboard.
• Use Cut/Copy and Paste to reorganise content.

Creating Files

• Create a file from scratch based on a blank document and set appropriate page margins
• Create a file based on an existing template
• Using the Save and Save As commands

Formatting Text

• Adjust paragraph settings such as text alignment, line and paragraph spacing
• Indent text
• Apply bullet and number formatting
• Apply character level formatting to emphasise text with bold and italics
• Change the font family and size

Tables

• Insert a table to display complex data
• Edit the table structure and apply formatting

Headers and Footers

• Insert simple header and footer information such as a page number

Printing

• Set the file up for printing