A 1 Day Introduction Course, aimed at beginners who have just started to learn about computers, this course aims to give users the knowledge and confidence to create and use Word documents. By the end of the day, users will be able to create, amend and manipulate their own documents and most of all feel more comfortable about using computers. Starting to Use Word Creating New and Saving your Documents. • Using Templates • Save and Save As • Useful Keyboard keys • Files and Folders • Deleting and Recovering Files Basic text formatting Using the Font and Paragraph Tools. • Bold, Italic, Underlines • Cut, Copy and Paste • Line Spacing • Paragraph Spacing • Using the fonts Quick Styles Pictures How to edit/move your pictures. • Adjust picture size • Use Artistic effects/ shapes • Text Wrapping • Cropping pictures • Flipping Images
SmartArt How to use the built-in Smart Art Diagrams. • Organisational Charts • Cycle Diagrams WordArt Adding/Editing WordArt. • Insert WordArt • WordArt Positioning • Create Custom WordArt effects Tables Creating and editing a table for storing your text. • Create a table • Add Columns/Rows • Merge/ Split Cells • Quick Table Styles • Using Formulas Printing Word Documents How to edit the Print Options and add document protection. • Selecting different Printers • Printing selected text and images
A 1 Day Intermediate Course, aimed at users who have attended the previous stage or a more experienced user. This course aims to give users further knowledge and tools to create Word documents and professional looking reports. By the end of the day, users will be able use features including Mail Merge, Tabs and Tables and Quick Parts. Quick Parts and Autocorrect Options Recycling commonly used text and images. • Creating/Editing Autocorrect options • Inserting Symbols • Using Quick Parts • Creating QuickParts Advanced text formatting Using the Font and Paragraph Tools. • Change Case • Changing Default Settings • Editing existing formatting • Text Selection techniques • Understanding Indents • Quick Styles Navigation Pane How to navigation with greater speed and accuracy within your document. • Document Mapping • Thumbnail Viewing • Find and Replace • Keyboard Shortcuts Bullets and Numbering Create, modify and customise bulleted and numbered lists of text within your document. Working with Large Documents Exploring a range tools to enhance to overall appearance and functionality of you document. • Page Breaks • Column Breaks • Pictures • WordArt • Text Boxes • Embedding Documents • Headers and Footers • Bullets and Numbering Tabs and Tables Creating and editing lists of data using tab markers or a table. • Create a table • Add Columns/Rows • Merge/ Split Cells • Quick Table Styles • Using Formulas • Using Tab Markers • Using Tab Leaders Mail Merge and E-Mail Merge Send Letters or E-Mails to a group of people personalising the letter or E-Mail each person receives.
A 1 Day Advanced Course, aimed at users that have attended the previous stages or an experienced user. This course aims to give users further knowledge, to enable greater functionality of Word documents. By the end of the course, users will be able to use features including creating templates, creating a table of contents and working in Outline View. Refresh on previous stages Quick refresh over key features of Word. • Using Quick Parts • Tabs and Tables • Mail Merge Advanced text formatting Using the Font and Paragraph Tools. • Using the Shortcut keys for text and paragraph formatting • Spiking text • Hiding Text • Custom Styles and Formatting Customising Microsoft Word Tailor the Ribbons and Quick Access Toolbars to suit your working style. • Create New Tabs • Create New Groups • Change Words Defaults • Edit the QAT • Create user friendly Macros Master and Sub Documents The ability for multiple users to work on the same document. Working with Large Documents Using the Tools that make those large reports easier to work with. • Adding/Editing WordArt • Page Breaks • Column Breaks • Section Breaks • Multiple page orientations • Text Boxes • Embedding Documents • Multiple Headers and Footers • Multi-Level Bullets and Numbering • Table of Contents • Creating Indexes • Hyperlinking • Navigation pane Developer Tools Creating user friendly forms. • Text Field Forms • Drop Down Controls • Check Box Controls • Restricting Editing • Track Changes • Web based Documents Workshop A time to refresh over the content covered and ask trainers advise on your existing or future word documents.
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Word has a feature depending on the amount of times you left click an area on the document.
How to quickly select a sentence:
1. Find the sentence you want to select.
2. Press and hold Ctrl + Click on the sentence you want to select.
Quick parts are a way of storing content that you want to reuse, such as images or lines of text. It may also include document properties such as the author of the document and title for example and AutoText. Primarily these are called building blocks.
To create a new Quick Part, you select the information you wish to keep and navigate to the Insert tab. Open Quick Parts and save the selection to the quick part gallery. Your selection is then stored in the gallery.
In word, there is many different functions that have multiple actions, for example double clicking on a word will highlight that specific word while double clicking on a blank space will move the cursor to this area.
This is exactly how to type anywhere on the page. When double clicking within the body of the document, you will see that the cursor has moved position to where you previously double clicked.
How to type anywhere on a document:
1.Double click in an empty space on the document
2. Start typing and the text will appear next to where you double clicked.
3. Repeat step 1 & 2 if you wish to add more text elsewhere on the page.
When you insert a photo to word you receive a new tab on the word ribbon called Picture tools. From this menu you can, change the layout options, add different effects, changed the border and you can crop the image.
1. Insert the image to word
2. If the menu hasn’t appeared, double click the image. (If you see the picture tools menu ignore step 2)
3. From the tools, press on Crop and use the black arrows surrounding your image to edit your image.
If you have disabled the auto checks for spelling and grammar in word, you can still double check that you haven’t made any mistakes. When you are writing on word, you might not notice any spelling or grammar errors, but you can manually check by pressing on the open book icon that is located on the bottom bar.
Pressing this icon will open an additional dialog box, which will tell you the spelling mistakes and grammar corrections. You can chose to either ignore the checks and carry on working, or you can change the mistakes to the recommended options that word provides.
Auto-correct is a simple process that looks at what you type and corrects the word to what the computer thought you was trying to spell. You can delete the rules, edit the rules and create new rules that the auto-correct will look at while you are typing away.
1. Go to File and Options
2. Click onto the proofing section
3. Now press on AutoCorrect Options.
4. On the left side, type the letters/words that you want to be replaced with whatever you wish by typing the correction in the right-hand side.
In word, you can type many different symbols ranging from the standard punctuation to the copyright symbol.
How to quickly write special characters in word:
1. To start typing a special character they require brackets. Opening bracket ( and closing bracket ).
2. Decide which symbol you want to use. In this example I will show you how to create the copyright symbol.
3. Type the letter c in between the brackets. ©
To type a header on your document that will go across all your pages, you simply need to double-click in the top portion of the document and type within the field. An example use of this would be typing the date in so that it appears on all pages.
In word, you have three different view options to choose from. Each will change how you see your document. The default and standard layout is called Print Layout. You also have the option to change it to Web Layout or Read mode.
To prevent eye strain while in reading mode, you can change some visual settings such as changing the page layout from column which is default in this mode or paper layout. You can change the colour of the page to either sepia or inverse.
To change this colour, enter read mode and navigate to view. (Read mode is located in the bottom right corner of word) Page Colour will appear on this list, from which you can decide which to use.
Select the text you want to hide or the hidden text.
Click Home > Font Dialog box > Font > Select or clear the Hidden check box.
Go to ‘File’, then ‘options’. Click on ‘Display’ and select ‘hidden text check box’ and click onto the print ‘hidden text check’ button then Click ‘Ok’.
When you have word open, go to File > Options > Quick Access Toolbar, switch to All Commands and click on the Calculate Command to add to the Quick Access Toolbar (You can quickly find the calculate tool by pressing on the list of commands followed by pressing the letter C). After you save, you will see a grey circle at the top of your Word window where Save, Undo & Redo are located.
To use this calculator, highlight an equation in your document and press on that circle, you will notice that an answer to your calculation will appear at the bottom of your window.