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Word 2007 Level 1

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Date Location Duration Cost
02 Sep 2010 (Thu) Washington 1 £ 165
04 Oct 2010 (Mon) Washington 1 £ 165
18 Nov 2010 (Thu) Washington 1 £ 165
24 Jan 2011 (Mon) Washington 1 £ 165
03 Mar 2011 (Thu) Newcastle 1 £ 165
26 Apr 2011 (Tue) Washington 1 £ 165
01 Jun 2011 (Wed) Washington 1 £ 165
05 Aug 2011 (Fri) Washington 1 £ 165

Please contact us to discuss private course dates and locations

What is Word?

Microsoft Word is a word processing program that you can use to create, edit, format, and save documents.

Course Overview

This course is for delegates who want to learn to be more productive with Microsoft Word. Delegates will learn how to use the basic function of Word including how to create and edit documents and use character and paragraph formatting.

Prerequisites

Objectives

Follow on Courses

Training Options

  • Scheduled public courses at one of our training venues
  • Private course at your company office throughout the UK, at one of our training venues (Durham, Newcastle or Washington) or at an independent location, convenient to you
  • Bespoke course written to your specific needs, at your company office throughout the UK, at our training venue or at an independent location, convenient to you
  • For further information please contact us on 0191 377 8377

What's Included

  • 1 delegate per computer
  • Telephone and email support
  • Relaxed refreshment area at our training venues
  • Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venue
  • Comprehensive course manual and exercises

Course Content

An Introduction to Microsoft Word

    Starting and Exiting Word 2007
    Exploring the Word window: menu bar/toolbar
    Turning on/off the menu-toolbar options
    The Word 2007 screen

Screen Options

    Zooming in and out
    Changing the view options for Word
    Different views of same document (Print/Full screen)
    Tool tips
    Status Bar
    The Quick Access toolbar- customising

Documents

    Creating a new document including using a template
    Saving a document for the first time
    Saving a document with a different name or location
    Setting/Changing the properties of a document: name, author, title, subject, category, comments, keywords
    Entering text in a document
    Non-printing characters, page display options
    Setting a Save AutoRecover time
    Using Save
    Opening and closing a document already created
    Saving the document as a PDF file
    Password protecting a document

Starting a Document

    Moving around the screen
    Entering text
    Working with multiple documents
    Selecting text using the mouse and keyboard
    Deleting text
    Undoing your last action and undoing many actions
    Redoing a recently undone action
    Inserting a space or line
    Inserting a new line within the same paragraph
    Overwriting text
    Inserting and removing a manual page break
    Inserting symbols

Smart Tags

    Displaying Smart Tags
    Smart Tag options, ie. what can it show you?
    Accepting a Smart Tag suggestion

Formatting

    Removing all manual character formats
    Character formats, case changing and font size
    Using strikethrough, subscript and superscript
    Changing the font colour
    Highlighting text using the highlighter, bold and italics
    Paragraph formatting and text alignment
    Indenting text, decreasing the indent of text
    Line and paragraph spacing
    Using the Format Painter
    Borders
    Background colours on Paragraphs

Styles

    Character and paragraph styles
    Applying a character and paragraph style
    Setting up a character and paragraph style

Bullets and Numbering

    Applying bullets and numbers to an existing list
    Changing the bullet shape or a different number style
    Removing bullets or numbering
    Starting a new list and have it automatically number itself
    Turning off this automatic feature

Copying & Moving Text

    Moving text using drag and drop
    Cut, Copy and Paste text
    Making most use of the clipboard
    Paste special
    Find and Replace text

Proofing

    Checking the spelling of a document
    Switching the spell check on as you type
    How to correct the spelling as you type
    Final inspection of your completed document
    Compatibility checker
    Using the thesaurus
    Using the translation tool

Page Set-up & Print Preview

    Selecting the paper size and page orientation
    Changing the margins through the ruler and menus
    Previewing before printing
    Printing
    Printing a section

Tables

    Inserting/deleting a table
    Inserting/deleting rows and columns
    Splitting and merging cells
    Increasing/decreasing column and row widths / heights
    Adding text above a table
    Centring a table on a page
    Adding shading to cells, rows, columns and tables
    Adding and editing table cell borders
    Altering the direction of text in a cell

Building Blocks (AutoText)

    Creating and storing a new building block (Autotext)
    Inserting a building block (Autotext) as desired
    Deleting a building block (Autotext)
    Editing the contents of a building block (Autotext)

Help

    Getting help in Word 2007
    Making use of the new Help window