Course Outline

Microsoft Word Level 1
Spending too much time struggling with simple documents? Want to eliminate time-consuming workarounds and create documents quickly? Learn techniques to professionally format and edit your Word docs! Use tabs and indents to prevent alignment issues. Create visual impact with tables. Solve the mystery of headers and footers. Insert graphics, borders, colors and watermarks to add pizzazz 6 hours

Getting Started with Word

  • Touring the Word workspace
  • Pointer shapes
  • Choosing menu commands
  • Using the task panes
  • Word processing operations

Creating and Saving a Document

  • Creating a new document

Entering Text in a Document

Saving a Document

  • Saving an unnamed document

Closing and Opening Documents

  • Closing a document
  • Opening a document

Editing a Document

  • Scrolling and moving the insertion point
  • Selecting text
  • Using Undo and Redo

Cutting, Copying and Moving Text

  • Cut text
  • Copy text
  • Move text

Changing Your View

  • Normal
  • Web
  • Print
  • Outline
  • Reading
  • Print preview

Displaying Menus and Toolbars

  • Personalized vs. Full menus
  • Personalized toolbars
  • Displaying toolbar menus
  • Displaying shortcut menus
  • Displaying or hiding toolbars

Formatting Text

  • Character formatting
  • Using key combinations
  • Changing the default character formatting

Formatting Paragraphs

  • Formatting toolbar
  • Paragraph alignment
  • Indents and spacing controls
  • Text flow controls
  • Inserting text breaks

Formatting with Styles

  • Apply an existing style
  • Modify an existing style
  • Define a new style

Setting and Using Tabs

  • Use the Format Tab commands

Creating Indents and Lists

  • Format bullets and numbering command

Creating Headers and Footers

  • Header and footer command
  • Creating a footer

Checking Your Spelling

  • Automatic spell checking
  • Spelling and grammar checking
  • Spelling dialog box options

Preparing to Print

  • Print preview toolbar
  • Editing text in Print Preview
  • Print command
Prerequisites:  Introduction to Windows or equivalent experience.

Revised 8/15/2011
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