Microsoft Word – Intermediate

CUSTOMIZING MICROSOFT WORD

• Customizing Microsoft Word
• Setting the user name
• Setting the default opening and saving folder

PROOFING AND PRINTING WITHIN WORD

• The importance of proofing
• Spell checking a document
• Adding words to the built-in custom dictionary
• Removing a word from the spell checking dictionary
• Printing options
• Selecting a printer
• Selecting what to print
• Setting the number of copies to print
• Setting the pages per sheet
• Previewing and printing a Word document

WORD COMPATIBILITY MODE

• What is “compatibility mode”?
• Using the convert button

ADVANCED PARAGRAPH FORMATTING IN WORD

• Line spacing formatting options
• Using the widow/orphan control
• Using ‘keep lines together’
• Using the ‘keep with next’ option
• Using ‘page break before’
• Applying and modifying multilevel list formatting

ADVANCED PICTURE MANIPULATION IN WORD

• Compatibility mode & picture editing
• Screenshot of complete application window
• Clipping screenshots
• Screenshots using the keyboard
• Picture tools
• Removing a background
• Picture corrections
• Picture colour
• Picture artistic effects
• Compressing pictures
• Resetting pictures
• Picture styles
• Picture borders
• Cropping a picture

WORD AND SECTIONS

• What are section breaks?
• Inserting ‘next page’ section breaks
• Inserting ‘odd page’ section breaks
• Changing the section break type
• Deleting section breaks
• Changing the page orientation within sections
• Changing margins within sections

HEADERS, FOOTERS, AND SECTIONS

• Applying different headers and footers to each section within a document
• Applying different headers and footers to the first page
• Applying different headers and footers to odd and even pages

WATERMARKS AND WORD

• Adding a predefined watermark
• Adding a custom text watermark
• Removing a watermark
• Modifying a text watermark
• Adding a picture watermark

ADVANCED TABLE MANIPULATION WITHIN WORD

• Table styles
• Merging cells within a table
• Splitting cells within a table
• Modifying cell alignment
• Modifying cell margins
• Modifying text direction within cells
• Repeating the table heading row for multipage tables
• Controlling row breaking across pages
• Performing a single column sort
• Multilevel sorting
• Converting delimited text to a table
• Converting a table to text

MANIPULATING STYLES IN WORD

• What are styles?
• Applying styles
• Types of styles
• Creating a paragraph style
• Creating a character style
• Modifying a style
• Enabling automatic style updating
• Deleting a style

TEXT WRAPPING AND PICTURES

• Applying ‘in line’ picture text wrapping
• Applying ‘square’ wrapping picture formatting
• Applying ‘tight’ picture wrapping
• Applying ‘behind text’ picture wrapping
• Applying ‘in front of text’ picture wrapping
• Applying wrapping to an AutoShape
• Applying wrapping formatting to a chart
• Applying wrapping formatting to a photograph
• Applying wrapping formatting to a diagram
• Text wrapping options within Microsoft Word tables

USING COLUMNS WITHIN WORD

• Applying column formatting to an entire document
• Applying column formatting to just ‘selected text’
• Changing the number of columns within a column layout
• Changing column widths and spacing
• Using preset column formatting
• Inserting and removing lines between columns
• Inserting column breaks
• Deleting column breaks

AUTOCORRECT IN WORD

• Creating, modifying and deleting an autocorrect entry

BUILDING BLOCKS

• Creating and inserting building block items
• Modifying a building block item
• Deleting a building block (AutoText) item

ADVANCED FIND AND REPLACE FEATURES IN WORD

• Smart ways of using the ‘find and replace’ facility
• Advanced find and replace options using font formatting
• Advanced find and replace options using paragraph formatting
• Advanced find and replace options using paragraph marks
• Advanced find and replace options using page breaks

USING PASTE SPECIAL

• ‘Paste Special’ options using formatted and unformatted text

USING CAPTIONS WITHIN WORD

• Manually adding a caption to a picture or table
• Removing captions
• Changing the caption number formatting

WORD FOOTNOTES AND ENDNOTES

• Inserting footnotes
• Editing and formatting footnotes
• Inserting endnotes
• Editing and formatting endnotes
• Converting footnotes to endnotes
• Converting endnotes to footnotes

WORD BOOKMARKS AND CROSS-REFERENCES

• Adding a bookmark
• Creating a page cross-reference
• to a bookmark
• Creating a cross-reference
• to a numbered item
• Deleting cross-references
• Deleting a bookmark