Microsoft Word Intermediate Course
The Microsoft Word Intermediate course is designed for people who already use Word for straightforward documents and want to work more efficiently with longer, better structured and more professional documents.
Participants will build on their existing formatting skills and explore features that can reduce repetitive work and improve consistency. The techniques covered are particularly useful when producing reports, policies, proposals, manuals and other documents where maintaining a consistent layout and professional appearance is important.
The course combines trainer demonstrations with practical exercises, allowing participants to apply the techniques as they learn them. It is suitable for regular Word users who are comfortable creating and editing basic documents but want to make greater use of Word's productivity and document-management features.
Participants who need to develop more sophisticated document-production skills can subsequently progress to the Microsoft Word Advanced course.
Course Schedule
Course Aims
This course is aimed at existing users of Microsoft Word who want to expand their basic knowledge of the product.
Course Prerequisites
Attendees who wish to attend this course must have a basic knowledge of Word and feel comfortable with creating, saving, editing, formatting a document, and working with simple bullet points.
Course Objectives
On completion of this course, delegates will be able to:
- Create columnar layouts using tabs
- Use advanced table design techniques
- Manipulate and calculate with data in a table
- Customise bullets and numbering and create multilevel lists
- Store frequently used text as Quick Parts
- Use mail merge to send a letter to multiple addressees
- Create newspaper style columns
Course Content
Introduction and Objectives
Recap Character and Paragraph Formatting
- Formatting characters and Paragraphs
Working with Headers & Footers
- Creating headers & footers
- Inserting the page numbers, current date, and file name
Working with Tabs
- Inserting and editing custom tabs
- Creating a leader tab
- Clearing tabs
Advanced Table Design
- Merging & splitting table cells
- Splitting a table
- Sizing a table automatically
- Adjusting column androw widths automatically
- Changing text direction
- Setting table properties
- Converting a table to text
- Placing table headings on all pages
- Sorting table data
- Using formulas in tables
- Applying borders and shading
Using Charts & Diagrams
- Inserting and editing a chart, SmartArt, and screenshot
Working with Columns & Rows
- Adjusting column width and row height
- Inserting, deleting& adjusting columns and rows.
Working with Lists
- Customising numbered / bulleted lists
- Controlling the start number of a numbered list
- Bulleting / numbering a multilevel list
- Resetting bullet / number styles
- Sorting a list alphabetically
Working with Mail Merge
- Identifying the main document
- Creating a data source
- Adding merge fields to a document
- Previewing and completing a mail merge
- Sorting & filtering records to be merged
- Creating labels
Using Newsletter-style Columns
- Creating newsletter-style columns
- Changing column width& spacing
- Adding a vertical line between columns
- Balancing column length
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Course at a Glance
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