Microsoft Word is an application categorized as a Word Processor. This course has been designed to equip each student with skills in general formatting of Text and Graphics for the purpose of an enhanced outline. The course covers the following areas:
Opening a Document
Show or hide the list of recently used documents on the File Menu
Creating a new Document
Quick ways of creating documents
Inserting a second document in an opening document
Saving a document
Naming documents
Set the default working folder that appears in the 'Opening' and 'Save As' dialogue boxes
Save a document for use in another program
Speed up saving a document
Prevent loss of work and recover loss documents
Specify a location for automatically recovered documents
Find files
Using file properties to locate files
Preview file contents and properties
Change the author for documents
Insert symbols or special characters
Insert the date and time in a document
Change typing and editing options
Navigate by using the document Map
Select text and graphics
Automatically select entire words
Automatically adjust spacing around deleted or inserted text
Look up words in the thesaurus
Count words or lines in a document
Hyphenate text automatically or manually
Undo mistakes
Working with Tables and Borders
Sorting items in a list or table
Checking Spelling and Grammer
Page Layout
Add a backgroung to Word documents
Assembling documents with Mail Merge
Changing Margins, page size and page orientation
Adding page and line numbering
Inserting page and section breaks
Creating and positioning Headers and Footers
Using Newspaper columns
Adding borders to pages
Positioning text using linked text box
Working with tables
Importing Graphics and creating drawing objects
Printing a document
N.B. Reference Material is available in Microsoft Office Help
Opening a Document