MS Word (Basic)

MS Word Basics, this comprehensive course covers the fundamental features of Word as well exposing the delegate to some of the functions in Word Basic. This is an intensive one-day course, from 09h00 to 15h30, which will provide the delegate with sufficient Word skills to create basic Word documents.

This course will prepare the delegate for more advanced Word courses like Word Intermediate and Word Advanced. The delegate receives a MS Word Basics manual and an electronic attendance certificate on completion of the Word Basic course.

What This Course Covers:

• Running Microsoft Word
• The Word screen
• Working with help
• Printing help topics
• Exiting help
• Screentips
• Viewing options
• Displaying non-printing symbols
• Show/hide screen elements
• Working with a full reading screen
• Saving a document
• Using the auto spell checker
• Using the spell checker
• Previewing a document
• Printing a file
• Closing a document
• Creating a new document
• Using the format painter
• Page setup
• Changing margins
• Changing orientation
• Changing paper size
• Accessing the page setup dialog box
• Changing margins with the mouse
• Adjusting the line spacing
• Paragraph alignment
• Reveal formatting
• Changing case
• Inserting the date & time
• Setting tabs
• Removing tabs from the ruler
• Moving a tab stop position
• Creating dot leader tabs
• Indenting paragraphs
• Adding manual page breaks
• Inserting blank pages
• Creating cover pages
• Moving text
• Paste format options
• Copying text
• Paste options
• Dragging & dropping
• Moving text with drag & drop
• Copying text with drag & drop
• Using the office clipboard
• Switching between multiple documents
• Opening an existing document
• Navigating within a document
• Replacing text
• Deleting text
• Selecting with the mouse
• Selecting non contiguous text
• Oops!! Undeleting text
• Redoing/repeating commands
• Using click and type
• Applying attributes
• Turning highlight on/off
• Removing attributes
• Changing fonts & point size
• Changing the colour of the font
• Advanced formatting options
• Clipboard options
• Working with the thesaurus
• Replacing a word
• Looking up a new word
• Using the auto grammar check
• The grammar checker
• Using bookmarks
• Creating bookmarks
• Going to a bookmark
• Deleting a bookmark
• Printing envelopes
• Envelope options
• Printing options
• Document recovery
• Mailing labels
• Changing label formats
• Creating custom labels
• Templates
• Creating a new template
• Using a template
• Opening a template
• Saving an existing document as a template
• Applying a document theme
• Changing the page colour
• Appendix a: cursor movement keys
• Appendix b: shortcut keys