Introductory Word training

This course aims to introduce delegates with little or no understanding of the Microsoft Word software to the basic features of the package.

On completion of the course delegates should understand and be able to accomplish basic operations associated with creating, formatting and finishing a word processing document ready for distribution. They should also be able to use some of the more advanced Microsoft Word applications including:

• Creating standard tables
• Using pictures and images within a document
• Importing objects
• Using mail merge tools.

The course is of one day's duration.

This instructor-led course has a hands-on approach, with plenty of opportunity for delegates to practise the new skills they learn at the computer.

Delegates attending the course should preferably have a basic understanding of the Windows environment and use of the keyboard and mouse.

• Opening Word 
• Closing Word 
• Creating a new document
• Saving a Word document
• The Recent Documents list
• Converting Files
• Compatibility Checker
• Switching between open Word documents
• Using available Help functions
• Closing a document

• Changing between page view modes
• Using magnification/zoom tools
• Working with the Word Ribbon
• The Quick Access Toolbar
• Displaying, hiding non-printing characters
• Modifying basic options in Microsoft Word  – user name, default folders for opening and saving documents

• Inserting Data – inserting text, special characters and symbols
• Selecting Data – selecting a character, word, line, sentence, paragraph or entire body text
• Editing Data - editing content by inserting new characters or words within existing text, over-typing to replace existing text, using the undo and redo commands
• Duplicating, Moving, Deleting - duplicating text within a document and between open Word documents, moving text within a document and between open Word documents, deleting text
• Finding and replacing text

• Changing text appearance: font sizes and types
• Applying text formatting such as bold, italic and underline
• Applying subscript or superscript to text
• Applying case changes to text
• Applying different colours to text
• Copy formatting from a piece of text to another piece of text
• Applying an existing style to a word, a line or a paragraph

• Inserting and removing paragraph marks
• Inserting and removing line break marks
• Aligning text left, centre, right or justified
• Indenting paragraphs: left, right, first line and hanging
• Applying single or double line spacing within paragraphs
• Page numbering
• Setting, removing and using left, centre, right and decimal tabs
• Applying and removing bullets and numbers from a single level list
• Changing the style of bullets and numbers
• Adding borders to paragraphs

• Changing the orientation of a document to portrait or landscape
• Changing the margins of a document
• Inserting and deleting page breaks in a document
• Adding and modifying text in headers and footers
• Adding fields such as date, page number and file locations to headers and footers
• Applying automatic page numbering to a document

• Creating a table ready for text insertion
• Inserting and editing data in a table
• Selecting rows, columns, cells or the entire table
• Inserting and deleting rows and columns
• Modifying column widths and row heights
• Modifying cell border width, style and colour
• Adding shading to cells

• Inserting a picture an image or a chart into a document
• Selecting a picture, image or chart in a document
• Duplicating a picture, image or chart within a document or between open Word documents
• Moving a picture, image or chart within a document or to another Word document
• Resizing a picture, image or chart
• Deleting a picture, image or chart

• Understanding the term mail merge and the concept of merging a data source with a main document such as a letter or label document
• Opening a preparing a document for a mail merge by inserting data fields
• Opening and preparing a mailing list or other data file for use in a mail merge
• Merging a mailing list with a letter or label document

• Spell-check
• Adding words to a built-in custom dictionary
• Previewing a Word document

• Choosing what to print - the whole document, specific pages and how many copies
• Printing a document from an installed printer using default settings or defined options