Course Outline

Lesson 1: Explore Word

• Working in the user interface
• Creating, editing text and saving documents:

• Opening, Moving around in and closing Documents
• Viewing documents in different ways:

• Accessing help feature

Lesson 2: Editing and Proofread Text

• Making text changes:

• Office clipboard
• Find and replace text:

• Fine-tuning text:

• Correcting spelling and grammatical errors:

• Viewing document statistics
• Inserting saved text:

• Inserting one document into another

Lesson 3: Changing the Look of Text

• Quickly formatting text:

• Changing a documents theme:

• Manually changing the look of characters:

• Manually changing the look of paragraphs:

• Character formatting and case considerations
• Find and replace formatting
• Creating and modifying lists:

• Formatting text as you type

Lesson 4: Organising Information in Columns and Tables

• Presenting information in columns:

• Creating tabbed lists
• Presenting info in tables:

• Performing calculations in tables
• Other layout options
• Formatting tables:

Lesson 5: Add Simple Graphic Elements

• Inserting and modifying pictures:

• About Clip Art
• Changing a document background
• Inserting Building Blocks:

• Drawing text boxes
• Adding Word Art:

• Formatting the first letter of a paragraph

Lesson 6: Preview, Print and Distribute Documents

• Previewing and adjusting page layout:

• Controlling what happens on each page:

• Printing documents
• Preparing documents for electronic distribution:

Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical course. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular course.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Creating Diagrams

• Creating and Positioning a diagram
• Using the text pane
• Inserting shapes into a diagram
• Promoting and Demoting shapes in a diagram
• Change a diagram's layout, colours and shapes
• Use picture diagrams to show photographs

Lesson 2: Insert and Modify Charts

• Insert a chart into a document
• Customise a chart, and save it as a template
• Plot Excel data in a chart
• Formatting a chart
• Changing chart types
• Adding axis titles and labels

Lesson 3: Use other Visual Elements

• Adding text and graphic watermarks
• Insert a symbol
• Building an equation and add it to the equation gallery
• Draw and manipulate shapes
• Insert a screen clipping

 

Lesson 4: Organise and Arrange Content

• Re-organise a document by adjusting its outline
• Arranging multiple pictures
• Insert and format nested tables

 

Lesson 5: Creating Documents for Use Outside of Word

• Save files in different formats
• Creating and modifying web documents
• Create and publish blog posts

 

Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical course. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular course.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Explore More Text Techniques

• Adding hyperlinks
• Inserting fields
• Adding Bookmarks and Cross References

Lesson 2: Use Reference Tools for Longer Documents

• Adding Footnotes and End notes
• Creating and Modifying Table of contents
• Table of figures
• Table of Authorities
• Creating and modifying indexes
• Adding Sources and compiling bibliographies
• Creating Master Documents

Lesson 3: Work with Mail Merge

• Understanding Mail Merge
• Preparing Data Sources
• Using an Outlook Contact List as a Data Source
• Preparing Main Documents
• Merging Main Documents and Data Sources
• Printing Envelopes
• Sending Personalised Emails to Multiple Recipients
• Creating and Printing Labels

 

Lesson 4: Collaborate on Documents

• Co-authoring Documents
• Sending Documents Directly from Word
• Adding and Reviewing Comments
• Tracking and Managing Documents Changes
• Comparing and Merging Document Changes
• Password-Protecting Documents
• Restricting Who Can Do What to Documents
• Controlling Changes

 

Lesson 5: Working in Word More Efficiently

• Working with Styles and Templates
• Default Program Options
• Customising the Ribbon
• Customising the Quick Access Toolbar
• Macros in Word:
• • Enabling Macros
• • Recording a New Macro
• • Running a Macro
• • Copying a Macro from one Document to another

 

Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical course. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular course.