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Microsoft Word

You will learn how to create and amend a range of documents that can be used for both personal and business purposes.

Course Objectives

The purpose of this course is to introduce you to the most important features of Microsoft Word, to reinforce what you already know about how to use a computer and to build your confidence.  By the end of the course you should be able to produce clear, attractive documents that other people will want to read.

You will:

• learn how to work with a wide variety of types of document – such as letters, notices, menus, agendas, minutes, reports, flyers and even poems
• learn about the most frequently used features in Word, including:
• Text: different types of font, copying and moving text, spelling checks, finding and replacing text
• Other components of a document: lists with bullet points, numbered lists, tables, pictures
• Page layout: page shape, margins, alignment of text on the page, columns, headers and footers, page numbering, page backgrounds, starting new pages
• Files: creating new files, saving files, opening existing files, printing

A workbook is provided containing exercises to give hands-on experience and general information. This is yours to keep.

Course Structure

Six weeks x2 hours

Lesson 1   Working with text

• Fonts (typefaces), Font sizes and Font colours
• Bold text, underlining and italics
• Deleting, Moving and Copying text
• Saving and Printing documents

Lesson 2  The layout of the page

• Aligning text with the left, right or middle of the page
• Shape of the page (‘portrait’ or ‘landscape’, margins)
• Introducing Pictures into documents

Lesson 3   Lists, columns and spelling

• Lists using Bullet Points and Numbered lists
• Spelling checks
• Putting text in Columns

Lesson 4  Headers footers and backgrounds

• Using the top and bottom margins for headers and footers
• Page Numbering
• Page Borders, Backgrounds and Watermarks

Lesson 5   Creating tables in documents

• Rows and Columns in Tables (Adding, Deleting, adjusting Size)
• Formatting Tables (Borders, Shading)

Lesson 6   Finding words in documents

• Finding (and Replacing) words and phrases in documents
• Controlling where New Pages start
• Revision

Prerequisites

You should have attended the Starting off with Windows course or have a basic knowledge of computers including the mouse and keyboard.

Next course

The next course, Further Word will extend your skills of the program.