Overview:
The skills and knowledge covered in this course are sufficient to create real-world documents including letters, memos, faxes, basic flyers, newsletters, and the like.
Learning Method:
This course uses a combination of instructor presentation, and student hands-on practical exercises. Participants will have the opportunity to apply what they have learned in the classroom throughout the course.
Who will benefit from this course?
This training is primarily designed for people who need to know how to use Microsoft Word 2003 to enhance existing basic documents or to enhance new documents that they create. It concentrates on a number of document enhancement features such as tables, pictures, and drawings, and using some of the automation and style features to speed up productivity.
Pre-requisites:
The course assumes that the learner can create basic documents in Microsoft Word. It would also be beneficial to have a general understanding of personal computers and the Windows operating system as you will be required to start applications, work with and copy files, and locate file folders.
What can you expect to gain from this course?
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- customise toolbars
- hand-draw tables and manipulate them
- create and work with tables
- insert a picture into a document, and move, resize and crop pictures
- create new drawings, and resize, move, group, duplicate, and move drawing objects
- create and modify a style, and apply a style to text in a document
- create the documents required for a merge, perform a merge and create mailing labels
- use sections to correctly format your documents
- create headers and footers
- create automated fields within a document.
Course Content:
Module 1:Customising Toolbars
- Understanding toolbars in Word 2003
- Creating a new toolbar
- Adding tools to a toolbar
- Deleting tools and toolbars
- Drawing a table
- Evenly spacing table lines
- Nesting a table
- Creating a table from text
- Creating formulas
- Updating calculations
- Sorting table data
- Merging cells
- Splitting cells
- Table gridlines
- Inserting an external table
- Table properties
- Changing table alignment
- Wrapping text around a table
- Changing row height
- Changing column widths
- Changing text alignment in a table
- Stretching and dragging tables
- Changing text direction
- Creating a repeating header row
Module 4:Working with Pictures
- Inserting a picture
- Moving a picture
- Resizing a picture
- Cropping a picture
Module 5:Working with Drawings
- The drawing toolbar
- Creating drawing objects
- Working with drawing objects
- Duplicating drawing objects
- Drawing freehand
- Formatting and colouring objects
- Styles
- Applying existing styles
- Creating a new style
- Manually modifying a style
- The 6 step merge process
- Selecting the starting document
- Selecting recipients
- Writing the letter
- Previewing the merge
- Performing the merge
- Printing a single label
- Creating a mailing label main document
- Inserting a next page section break
- Inserting a continuous section break
- Controlling odd and even section breaks
Module 9:Headers and Footers
- Creating headers
- Creating footers
- Changing first page headers and footers
- Creating odd and even pages
- Document information fields
- Working with fields
- Formula fields
- Unlinking fields
- Updating fields when printing