Microsoft Word

Take your Word skills to the next level with one of our short instructor led Word courses delivered remotely or book a trainer to visit your site.  Let’s face it, today many Word users already have the skills to create a basic document, but when it comes to troubleshooting formatting and working with long documents, Word really can appear to have a mind of its own. 

We offer Word training from beginner to advanced level but also offer a short essentials course covering the most useful topics from all 3 levels for users who need to get up to speed fast.

Microsoft Word Essentials

This is an intermediate to advanced level Word course perfect for users who frequently work with long documents.  Packed with the vital ingredients you will need to do your job if you’re a report writer producing tender responses, grants, proposals or simply long reports.

• Customising Word – Set up defaults to guarantee stress free formatting and AutoCorrect

• Customise the Ribbon and QAT to make your general routine tasks easier

• Setting up AutoCorrect and AutoFormat including numbering and bullets

• Understanding how to manage tabs and indentation

• Using automatic numbering with headings

• Inserting and managing Page Breaks

• Using section breaks to allow for different portrait/landscape pages and different page layouts including headers and footers

• How to control formatting efficiently within a document

• Using heading styles and custom styles to format a document

• Produce and automatic Table of Contents and Index or Glossary

• Using Building Blocks to reuse blocks of text and other objects at the click of a button

• Controlling images

• Updating document formatting quickly without the need for repetition

• Working collaboratively using track changes to manage edits by multiple reviewers

• Outline view for summarising and working efficiently with long documents

• Setting up templates

Benefits of attending this course:

This course will save users hours of wasted time on repetitive tasks which will be automated and made more efficient with a greater understanding of this powerful piece of software.