Microsoft Word – Foundation

THE MICROSOFT WORD USER SCREEN

• Starting Microsoft Word
• The Microsoft Word opening screen
• To create a new blank document
• The levels of command organization
• The file tab
• Ribbon tabs
• Groups
• Dialog box launcher

STARTING TO USE MICROSOFT WORD

• Using the default Microsoft Word document
• Saving Microsoft Word documents
• Opening and closing documents
• Save as
• Creating a new, blank document using a keyboard shortcut
• Using help within Microsoft Word
• Alt key help
• Closing Microsoft Word

USING TEMPLATES TO CREATE DOCUMENTS

• Creating new documents using different templates
• Using online templates

MANIPULATING TEXT

• Select, then format
• Selecting text
• Inserting, deleting, undo and redo
• Copying text within a document
• Moving (cutting) text within a document

MICROSOFT WORD TEXT FORMATTING

• What is text formatting?
• Font type
• Font size
• Decrease and increase font size icons
• Font size keyboard shortcut
• Bold, italic and underline
• Subscript and superscript
• Case changing
• Highlighting
• Font colour
• Copying text formatting
• Removing formatting
• Using zoom
• Inserting special characters and symbols
• MICROSOFT WORD PARAGRAPH FORMATTING
• What is paragraph formatting?
• Paragraph marks
• Soft paragraph (line break) marks
• Recommended techniques for aligning and indenting text
• Aligning text
• Indenting paragraphs
• Applying single or double line spacing within paragraphs
• Applying spacing above or below paragraphs
• Using paragraph spacing rather than using the return key
• Applying bullets to a list
• Applying numbering to a list
• Modifying bullet and numbering formatting
• Removing bullet or numbering formatting

BORDERS AND SHADING WITHIN MICROSOFT WORD

• Using borders and shading
• Adding a border
• Modifying borders
• Adding shading
• Modifying your shading
• Applying borders to selected text

TABS

• Tab stops
• Displaying the ruler
• Setting and removing tabs using the ruler
• Viewing tab marks using the show/hide icon

MICROSOFT WORD STYLES

• What are styles?
• Applying styles

USING WORD DESIGN THEMES

• Applying a design theme
• Applying a theme colour
• Apply a customized font

MICROSOFT WORD PAGE FORMATTING

• What is page formatting?
• Page orientation
• Changing the page size
• Page margins
• Inserting page breaks
• Deleting page breaks
• Use page breaks rather than repeatedly pressing the return key
• Headers and footers
• Easy header and footer creation
• Page numbering
• Header and footer fields
• Editing text within a header or footer
• Cover pages
• Applying automatic hyphenation

WORD VIEWS AND DOCUMENT NAVIGATION

• Switching between Word views
• Using the zoom tool
• Navigating through documents

TABLES

• Using tables
• Inserting a table
• Navigating within a table
• Selecting and editing text within a table
• Selecting cells, rows, columns or the entire table
• Inserting and deleting rows and columns
• Modifying column width or row height
• Modifying the table width
• Modifying table styles

USING GRAPHICS WITHIN MICROSOFT WORD

• Types of graphics that you can insert into Word
• Inserting pictures
• Inserting online pictures
• Inserting shapes
• Inserting SmartArt
• Inserting a chart
• Modifying the chart type
• Modifying the chart style
• Modifying the chart data
• Inserting a screenshot
• Selecting, resizing and deleting graphics
• Copying or moving graphics

FINDING AND REPLACING TEXT WITHIN A MICROSOFT DOCUMENT

• Using find and replace
• Finding text
• Replacing text

USING MULTIPLE OPEN DOCUMENTS

• Multitasking with Word
• Switching between open documents
• Tiling or cascading documents on your screen
• Comparing documents side by side
• Copying or moving selected items between documents

MICROSOFT WORD MAIL MERGE

• What is mail merging?
• Starting the mail merge wizard
• Mail merge wizard – step 1 of 6 ‘select document type’
• Mail merge wizard – step 2 of 6 ‘select starting document’
• Mail merge wizard – step 3 of 6 ‘select recipients’
• Mail merge wizard – step 4 of 6 ‘write your letter’
• Mail merge wizard – step 5 of 6: previewing your letters
• Mail merge wizard – step 6 of 6 printing options
• Creating a mailing list to be used within a mail merge
• Merging a mailing list to produce labels