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Microsoft Word 2003 - Familiarisation

Objectives

Delegates will move beyond the basics of using Microsoft Word 2003 to take advantage of some of Word's more powerful features to dramatically increase the productivity of document creation.

Duration:

One Day

Delegates will learn...

  • Quick ways to edit documents
  • How to set up compelling page layouts using tables, columns and frames
  • The power of using "styles", "templates" and outlining to manage document formatting.
  • How to create and alter paragraph and text styles, and apply those styles to paragraphs and text throughout a document
  • Using MS Word outlining in combination with styles and templates to bring clarity to large documents.
  • How to create and store templates as predefined document starting points
  • Drawing and graphics

Prerequisites:

This course is suitable for users who have no formal training but have been using MS Word for several months.

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Topics covered include...

A quick review of our starting points and assumed knowledge

  • Selecting, moving and copying text
  • Using the clipboard viewer
  • Finding and Replacing a piece of text

Accelerated document navigation and editing

  • Using AutoCorrect
  • Speeding up editing techniques
  • Navigating around large documents.
  • Scrolling in a document
  • Moving the "insertion point"

Character & Paragraph formatting

  • Character formattting
  • Paragraph formatting
  • Numbered lists, and bullet points
  • Line breaks and line spacing

Tabs and tables

  • Setting and adjusting tabs and leaders
  • Creating Tables
  • Draw table and table formatting

Page Formatting

  • Headers and footers
  • Inserting and deleting page breaks
  • Editing in print preview

Creating and Applying Styles

  • Creating and using styles
  • Managing styles

Creating and using templates

  • Examining existing and ready-made templates
  • Creating custom templates that are tailored to your work

Using the built-in Outline features

  • Demonstrating the power of the Outline features
  • Using the Outline view
  • Switching between views
  • How outlines work with Styles

Drawing and Graphics

  • Using Autoshapes
  • Clip Art and Word Art
  • ClipArt task pane
  • Inserting pictures from various sources
  • Wrapping options