About this Course

Duration: 16 hours

Aims

• To demonstrate the ability to use a word processing application on a personal computer.
  
• To understand and accomplish more advanced operations associated with the editing, layout and organisation of a word processed document and the use of various elements and special tools.
  
• To demonstrate some of the more advanced features, including creating master documents, referencing, working with templates, styles, tables, forms, linking and embedding, editing mail merge documents, creating macros and using automatic formatting.
  

Objectives

After completing the guide the user will be able to:

• Apply advanced text, paragraph, column and table formatting. Convert text to a table and vice versa.

• Work with referencing features like footnotes, endnotes and captions. Create tables of contents, indexes and cross references.

• Enhance productivity by using fields, forms and templates.

• Apply advanced mail merge techniques and work with automation features like macros.

• Use linking and embedding features to integrate data.

• Collaborate on and review documents. Work with master documents and subdocuments. Apply document security features.

• Work with watermarks, sections and headers and footers in a document.

Contents

SECTION 1 WORKING EFFICIENTLY

1 - DESIGN

2 - TECHNIQUES

3 - HYPERLINKS

4 - SAVING

5 - REVISION: WORKING EFFICIENTLY

SECTION 2 TEXT EDITING

6 - FIND AND REPLACE

7 - PASTE SPECIAL OPTIONS

8 - AUTOCORRECT

9 – AUTOFORMAT

10 - AUTOTEXT

11 - TEXT FLOW AND WRAP

12 - REVISION: TEXT EDITING

SECTION 3 PARAGRAPH EDITING

13 - LINE SPACING

14 - PAGINATION OPTIONS

15 - CREATING STYLES

16 - MODIFYING STYLES

17 - OUTLINE LEVEL STYLES

18 - MULTILEVEL LISTS

19 - REVISION: PARAGRAPH EDITING

SECTION 4 DOCUMENT SETUP

20 - ADDING/DELETING SECTION BREAKS

21 - APPLYING SECTION FORMATTING

22 - SECTION HEADERS AND FOOTERS

23 - MULTIPLE COLUMN LAYOUT

24 - MODIFYING COLUMN LAYOUT

25 - MODIFYING COLUMN WIDTH/SPACING

26 - CREATING A WATERMARK

27 - MODIFYING AND DELETING WATERMARKS

28 - REVISION: DOCUMENT SETUP

SECTION 5 TABLES

29 - TABLE STYLES

30 - MERGING & SPLITTING CELLS

31 - CONVERTING TEXT TO A TABLE

32 - SORTING TABLE DATA

33 - PERFORMING CALCULATIONS

34 - TABLE PROPERTIES AND SETUP

35 - REVISION: TABLES .

SECTION 6 REFERENCING

36 - CREATING FOOTNOTES AND ENDNOTES

37 - MODIFYING/DELETING FOOTNOTES AND ENDNOTES

38 - CREATING A TABLE OF CONTENTS

39 - UPDATING A TABLE OF CONTENTS

40 - ADDING AND DELETING BOOKMARKS

41 - CROSS-REFERENCING

42 - ADDING NUMBERED CAPTIONS

43 - CREATING A TABLE OF FIGURES

44 - CREATING INDEX ENTRIES

45 - REVISION: REFERENCING

SECTION 7 COLLABORATIVE EDITING

46 - ADDING/EDITING COMMENTS

47 - TRACKING CHANGES

48 - ACCEPTING AND REJECTING CHANGES

49 - COMPARE AND COMBINE

50 - REVISION: COLLABORATIVE EDITING

SECTION 8 DOCUMENT SECURITY

51 - PASSWORD PROTECTION

52 - REMOVING AND CHANGING PASSWORDS

53 - REVISION: DOCUMENT SECURITY

SECTION 9 MASTER DOCUMENTS & TEMPLATES

54 - CREATING A MASTER DOCUMENT

55 - CREATING A SUBDOCUMENT

56 - ADDING AND REMOVING A SUBDOCUMENT

57 - MODIFYING A TEMPLATE

58 - REVISION: MASTER DOCUMENTS AND TEMPLATES

SECTION 10 FIELD CODES AND FORMS

59 - WORKING WITH FIELD CODES

60 - EDITING AND UPDATING FIELD CODES

61 - LOCKING/UNLOCKING FIELDS

62 - CREATING AND EDITING FORMS

63 - FORM FIELD OPTIONS

64 - PROTECTING FORM FIELDS

65 - REVISION: FIELDS AND FORMS

SECTION 11 MAIL MERGE

66 - EDITING A DATA SOURCE

67 - SORTING A DATA SOURCE

68 - USING DIFFERENT DATA SOURCES

69 - ASK AND IF FIELDS

70 - REVISION: MAIL MERGE 

SECTION 12 LINKING AND EMBEDDING

71 - LINKING DATA

72 - UPDATING LINKS

73 - EMBEDDING DATA

74 - MODIFYING EMBEDDED DATA

75 - REVISION: LINKING AND EMBEDDING

SECTION 13 MACROS

76 - RECORDING A MACRO

77 - RUNNING A MACRO

78 - ASSIGNING A MACRO TO A BUTTON

79 - REVISION: MACROS 

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