Microsoft Word Training Northern Ireland

Introductory level

Training Description: Word processing is the use of computers to create, revise, and save documents for printing and future retrieval. Microsoft Word is a proven and powerful word processing application. This course will provide you with the basic concepts required to produce common business documents as well as give you the opportunity to apply them.

Participants will learn the basics of Microsoft Word 2003 such as using the menu system and toolbars. Word documents will be written, saved and printed. Participants will learn to move text, copy and delete text and use the Spelling and Grammar Checker as well as inserting a picture.

Learning Objectives:

• Start Word
• Use the Word menu system Word toolbars and Word task panes
• Enter text into a document window and move and copy text
• Save, print, and close a document
• Apply attributes, fonts, font size and bullets to text.
• Reset margins, tabs, line and paragraph spacing and page orientation in a document
• Use the Spelling and Grammar Checker in addition to customizing the AutoCorrect dictionary and use the Thesaurus
• Insert a picture
• Preview and save a document as a Web page

Advanced level

Training Description: This course will expand upon the basic concepts and will introduce new concepts with an opportunity to apply them. Participants will learn to use the Microsoft Word Format Painter and insert symbols and tables into documents. Columns will also be introduced as well as inserting charts and diagrams. In addition, participants will add borders and shadings including headers and footers. Mail merge will also be introduced in this class.

Learning Objectives:

• Find and replace text in a document and adjust the character spacing.
• Insert symbols and tables.
• Use the format painter and apply style to the text.
• Create parallel columns and newsletter-style columns and edit and restructure those columns.
• Insert a chart and diagram.
• Apply and modify the style of a document.
• Add border and shading to text and header/footer and page numbers.
• Merge documents and print an envelope and label.
• Link external data to a Word document.

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