MS Word Basic Training Course

Introduction to text editor usage.

• Capabilities of computer-based text processing
• Creating and saving documents
• Protecting documents with passwords
• Creating backup copies of documents
• Rapid and precise navigation within a document

Styles

• The significance of styles for maintaining consistency, clarity, and aesthetic appeal
• Utilising style groups
• Quickly modifying basic text formatting
• Formatting titles and using typographical elements to highlight them
• General principles for achieving clear and aesthetically pleasing text

Bullets and Lists

• Implementing bullets and numbering
• Maintaining visual consistency in document lists
• Swiftly altering the appearance of bullet points
• Adjusting the order or hierarchy of list items
• Modifying list numbering styles (e.g., Roman numerals or alphabetical letters)
• Customising bullet symbols

Tabs

• Types and applications
• Inserting tabs and adjusting their position
• Applying tabs in correspondence (aligning dates to the right margin or creating dotted spaces for signatures)
• Aligning numerical columns

Tables

• Designing and utilising tables
• Inserting tables
• Enhancing table aesthetics and clarity (adjusting fonts, borders, cell margins, and background colours)
• Editing tables (adding or removing rows and columns, and creating merged headers)

Page Headers and Footers

• Practical applications
• Configuring distinct headers or footers for the first page
• Incorporating automatic page numbering (including formats like 'current page / total pages')
• Inserting metadata on all pages (e.g., title, author, or last edited date)
• Customising font and size for page numbers (independent from the rest of the header/footer content)
• Utilising header/footer separator lines

Mail Merge

• Applications and workflow of the merge process
• Preparing data sources (such as address databases) and the main document
• Executing the Print Merge
• Printing labels and addressing envelopes