Word

This course is for anyone who wishes to achieve a basic competency with Word.

Aims

By the end of this online course you will be confident in all the basic features of Microsoft Word.

What you will learn

This course will cover the following topics:

Starting with Word: Opening, Closing, Creating documents, Moving around.
Text basics: Entering text, Selection, Symbols.
Changing the document display: The Ribbon, Views, Zoom.
Editing: Copying and moving, Find and replace, Undo and redo.
Working with text: Bold, italic and underline, Fonts, Text case, Superscript and subscript.
Changing the layout: Bullets and numbers, Indents, Tabs, Spacing, Page breaks.
Adding extras to your page: Headers and footers, Page numbers, Borders and shading.
Saving shortcuts: Default file location, Saving into other file formats.

Styles and themes: Applying and creating styles.
Pictures and drawing: Adding, moving, resizing and deleting pictures.
Charts: Creating and editing charts.
Preparing for printing: Spelling and grammar, Margins, Orientation, Paper size.
Printing: Print preview, printing multiple copies, printing selected pages.
Tables: Creating, editing and formatting tables.
Mail merge: Creating a mail merge letter, merging with recipients.

Requirements

Delegates must be confident in using a keyboard, Windows and a mouse.

How the online course works

The online modules are structured as follows:

How it works

Here you can find out about how our lessons are structured, the style of training we use, and guidance on some of the features you will find in our lessons.

Course materials

Here you will find the manual and the demo files you need to complete the lessons.

Complete the preassessments

Here you can choose a preassessment to assess which lessons you need to take. The preassessments can be taken in any order you wish.

Start lessons

Here you will find the full list of lessons for that module.

Your learning plan

Here you will find lessons that have been added to a structured plan for you based on the results of the preassessments. You can also manually add and remove lessons from this plan.

Next step

Once you have completed this course you will be ready to take the Word Advanced course.