MS Word Basic Training Course

Introduction to Text Editing

• Capabilities of computer-based text processing
• Creating and saving documents
• Password-protecting documents
• Managing document backup copies
• Navigating quickly and precisely within a document

Styles

• The importance of styles for maintaining consistency, clarity, and aesthetic appeal
• Style groups and their application
• Quickly modifying basic text formatting
• Formatting titles and using typographic features to distinguish them
• General guidelines for achieving clear and aesthetically pleasing text

Bulleted and Numbered Lists

• Using bullets and numbering
• Maintaining a consistent appearance for lists throughout the document
• Quickly altering list appearance
• Adjusting the order or indentation level of list items
• Changing numbering formats (e.g., Roman numerals or lowercase letters)
• Modifying bullet styles

Tabs

• Types of tabs and their applications
• Inserting and adjusting tab stops
• Using tabs in correspondence (e.g., aligning dates to the right margin or creating dotted lines for signatures)
• Aligning columns of numbers

Tables

• Structure and use of tables
• Inserting tables
• Enhancing table aesthetics and clarity (e.g., adjusting font sizes, borders, cell padding, and background colors)
• Modifying tables (e.g., adding or removing rows and columns, creating merged header cells spanning multiple columns)

Page Headers and Footers

• Applications of headers and footers
• Setting different headers or footers for the first page
• Using automatic page numbering (including formats like "Page X of Y")
• Inserting metadata on every page (e.g., title, author, or update date)
• Changing the font and size of page numbers independently from the rest of the header/footer content
• Using header/footer separators (lines that divide content)

Mail Merge

• Applications and mechanisms of mail merge
• Preparing the data source (e.g., an address database) and the main document
• Executing the mail merge and printing results
• Printing labels and addressing envelopes