Microsoft Word

PreRequisite: Windows Basics. Students should have a good understanding of how to use Windows, and a computer in general. No prior word processing experience is required.
  

Course Outline

Starting Word, parts of the screen, the Office Assistant, the menus and toolbars, using scroll bars, the Insertion Point, automatic spell checking, entering text, word wrap, editing text with backspace & delete, using the arrow keys, selecting text, justification, changing fonts, bold, italics, underline, bulleted and numbered lists, changing colors, cut, copy, paste, undo, keyboard shortcuts, moving text with the mouse, saving and loading documents, printing, print preview, zooming in/out, page setup, setting margins, paper size & orientation, automatic dates, headers & footers, page numbering, footnotes & endnotes, manual spell checking, grammar checking, thesaurus, using WordArt, inserting clipart, AutoShapes, moving and resizing graphics objects. Project: building a professional business letter.

Mail Merge, which is essentially sending a customized letter to a database of recipients in a bulk mailing. We will also create mailing labels. Also covered: indenting (left, right, hanging), using the ruler bar, setting up custom tab stops (left, right, center, decimal, bar), paragraph borders, paragraph spacing, pagination, widow/orphan control, keeping lines together, manual page breaks, find & replace, advanced page setup, customizing bullets & numbered lists, envelopes & labels, autocorrect, bookmarks, inserting graphics of any type. Projects: mailing a late notice to all overdue clients; setting up pages for layout in a book. Using tables to layout our documents, using the Macro Recorder.