Showing experienced users how to develop their skills on our Level 2.

Overview

This is a hands-on, practical course for Microsoft Word users who want to extend their skills and explore advanced document processing techniques. The aim of this course is to equip participants with advanced text processing and publishing skills.

Duration

1 Day

Requirements

This course assumes you can create documents with several pages, incorporate tables, and that you can edit and format your documents effectively.

Objectives

• Use mail merge to create a variety of merged documents
• Construct and manage the structure of long and complex documents
• Customise and control bullets and numbering
• Create and modify tables
• Use, create and modify styles to apply consistent formatting

Content

Mail merge:
The concept of mail merge; different sources of data; inserting merge fields; inserting Word fields; checking the results of a merge; selecting and sorting data; merging to a new document and/or a printer.

Document layout:
Setting margins and page layout; headers, footers and page numbering; using sections to apply different layouts; page numbering different sections; newspaper-style columns.

Working with long documents:
Creating a table of contents; adding footnotes and cross references; creating an index; navigating in a long document; an overview of fields; fields to use with long documents.

Bullets and numbering:
Adding bullets or numbers to paragraphs, controlling bullets and numbers; applying lists and heading styles; customising bullets and numbers; using outline and legal numbering; troubleshooting automatic numbering.

Working with styles:
Using styles from the Style Gallery for consistent formatting; saving the selected paragraph as a Style; modifying built-in styles; using styles to outline a document; an overview of templates.

Working with the Building Blocks Organiser:
Identifying the different Galleries found in the Building Blocks Organiser; storing items in the Building Blocks Organiser verses the normal template; creating a gallery item such as a Cover Page or Quick Table; saving a selection to the Quick Parts Gallery; inserting a Building Blocks item into your document.

Allowing expert users to complete their knowledge on our Level 3.

Overview

This is a practical course for experienced Word users to master advanced techniques, adapt and customise Word.

Duration

1 Day

Requirements

To make the most of this course you must be able to create complex documents incorporating tables of contents; use headers and footers, and control page numbering; use, create and modify styles to apply consistent formatting.

Objectives

• Design, create and use document and form templates
• Share documents and track revisions
• Assemble compound documents using a variety of techniques
• Customise menus, toolbars and assign keyboard shortcuts
• Add drawings and graphics to illustrate a document
• Record and run a macro

Content

Designing templates:
What a template contains; creating, saving and storing a template; using an existing document as a template; templates and AutoText; attaching toolbars, macros and styles; designing a form template; adding form fields and setting properties; protecting a form and sections of a form; distributing an on-line form

Tracking changes:
Revision marking; accepting/rejecting revisions; comparing/merging documents; saving versions

Sharing documents with others:
Making documents available; protecting a document; annotating documents; reading an annotated document; sending documents

Master documents:
Managing documents with Outline; document map; assembling documents; inserting charts and worksheet data; maintaining links; creating master and sub-documents; creating a table of contents/index for a master document; printing a master document

Special formats and illustrating:
Borders and shading; page backgrounds; using the drawing tools; moving and resizing objects; grouping objects; using and editing AutoShapes; setting fills, lines, arrows, shadows and 3D effects; inserting Clip Art and WordArt

Customising Word:
Adding buttons to a toolbar; creating new toolbars; assigning keyboard shortcuts; controlling the menu and toolbar display; setting Word options

Automating tasks with macros:
Recording macros; exploring the different ways of running a macro; assigning a macro to a keyboard shortcut or toolbar