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Computer Training: MS Word®


When you complete any of these MS Word® training courses, you'll receive a certificate to confirm your proficiency.  You can also "pick and choose" topics from any of these courses for Q&A sessions (no certificates issued for Q&A sessions).

Introduction Intermediate Advanced Power User

You can also purchase the workbooks for these courses separately.

Introduction to Microsoft Word®

Using MS Word® is so much more efficient than typing on a typewriter! You can create attractive documents that are easy to read - and better still, easy to change and retrieve!

Average course time: 3 hours

You'll need:

You'll learn:

  • Basic navigation in Microsoft Word®
  • Creating, opening, and saving documents
  • Typing and deleting text
  • Setting up margins in a document
  • Inserting page breaks
  • Viewing documents in Print Layout View
  • Formatting text
  • Inserting and deleting tabs
  • Aligning text with tabs
  • Creating and formatting tables
  • Printing documents
  • Emailing documents

Intermediate Microsoft Word®

Take the next step! When you've completed this Intermediate level course, you'll feel confident and competent working with most documents that are regularly used in business.

Average course time: 3 - 4 hours

You'll need:

  • A working computer with Windows® installed on it
  • Microsoft Word® 6.0 or higher or Microsoft Office® 97 or higher
  • Introduction to Microsoft Word® or equivalent experience

You'll learn:

  • Using the highlighter
  • Using special symbols
  • Word count
  • Formatting marks
  • Toolbars
  • AutoText and AutoCorrect
  • Language, spelling and grammar
  • Find and replace
  • Paragraph formatting
  • Bulleted and numbered lists
  • Basic styles
  • Basic Headers and footers
  • Inserting pictures
  • Editing pictures with the Picture Toolbar
  • Sorting
  • Envelopes and labels
  • Letter wizard

 

Advanced Microsoft Word®

If you deal with complex documents, you need more advanced skills to deal with special document formatting. And don't forget the time and work you can save by getting Word® to build the table of contents for you!

Average course time: 3 - 5 hours

You'll need:

  • A working computer with Windows® installed on it
  • Microsoft Word® 6.0 or higher or Microsoft Office® 97 or higher
  • Intermediate Microsoft Word® or equivalent experience

You'll learn:

  • Tables of Contents and Indices
  • Setting options
  • Setting default preferences in the Normal template
  • Split window
  • Index, captions and tables of contents
  • Advanced styles
  • Templates
  • Footnotes
  • Linking and embedding
  • Advanced document formatting
  • Hyperlinks
  • Bookmarks
  • Section breaks
  • Advanced headers and footers
  • Columns
  • Text boxes
  • Text direction
  • Advanced tables
  • Document properties
  • Mail merge
  • Equations and table calculations


Microsoft Word® Power User

These are the skills that make you stand out at the office! If you're creating complex documents that use cross-referencing, or if you're creating documents to automate office processes for other users, this course is for you.

Average course time: 3 - 5 hours

You'll need:

  • A working computer with Windows® installed on it
  • Microsoft Word® 6.0 or higher or Microsoft Office® 97 or higher
  • Advanced Microsoft Word® or equivalent experience


You'll learn:

  • Advanced find and replace using wildcards, formats, and special characters
  • Subdocuments
  • Cross-references
  • Forms
  • Formulas
  • Autoshapes and wordart
  • Passwording documents
  • Drop caps and watermarks
  • Backgrounds
  • Document map
  • Track changes and add comments
  • Macros
  • Creating web pages with Word®
  • Fields
  • Reveal formatting
  • Document comparison
  • Customizing toolbars
  • Line numbers
  • Automatic/manual hyphenation


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