Course overview

Duration: 1 day (6.5 hours)

Our Word Document Production (Part 1) course shows you how Word was designed to be used and demonstrates the powerful tools available.

This course will enable you to originate professional documents with ease, ensuring that modifications are quick and uncomplicated.  It looks at some of the common frustrations and how to avoid them.

This course is aimed at existing Word users who want to get the best out of the package

Objectives 

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Customise Word
• Use different Word views
• Use line, paragraph and page breaks correctly
• Set indents and tabs
• Use styles for easy formatting
• Work with section breaks
• Work with automatic correction features
• Insert and modify tables

Content

Word setup

• Using different views
• Customising the status bar
• Customising the Quick Access bar and Ribbon

Document setup

• Using the Navigation Pane
• Using Show / Hide
• Line vs paragraph breaks
• Using page break

Using the ruler 

• Setting indents and tabs
• The different types of indent
• Using dot leader tab

Bullets and numbering

• Working with simple numbered and bulleted lists
• Sorting lists
• Working with multi level lists

Styles

• The importance of styles
• Creating, amending and applying Character Styles
• Amending and applying Paragraph Styles
• Setting bullet point styles
• Using the Style Inspector

Reorganising a document

• Using Outline View
• Promoting and demoting headings
• Displaying Styles names in Draft and Outline views

Page and number fomatting

• Section vs page breaks
• Setting page orientation
• Setting page margins
• Displaying page border 

Automatic corrections

• Working with Quick Parts
• Setting autocorrect options
• Autoformat while typing

Creating simple tables

• Inserting or drawing a table
• Modifying table formatting
• Adding rows and columns
• Changing row heights and column widths

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