MS Word Basic Training Course

Introduction to text editors

• Capabilities of computer text processing
• Creating and saving documents
• Protecting documents with a password
• Creating backup copies of documents
• Quick and precise navigation through documents

Styles

• The importance of styles for maintaining consistency, clarity, and aesthetic appeal
• Style sets and their application
• Rapidly changing basic text formatting
• Formatting headings and using typographical features to highlight them
• General rules for creating clear and aesthetically pleasing texts

Letters, bullets, and lists

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

Tabs

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

Tables

• Table structure and usage
• Inserting tables
• Enhancing the aesthetics and clarity of tables (e.g., adjusting font sizes, borders, cell margins, and background colors)
• Modifying tables (e.g., adding or removing columns and rows, creating headers spanning multiple columns)

Page headers and footers

• Application of headers and footers
• Setting a different header/footer for the first page
• Using automatic page numbering (including formats like 'Page X of Y')
• Inserting document metadata on all pages (e.g., title, author, or update date)
• Changing the font and size of text in headers/footers independently from the rest of the document
• Using separator lines in headers/footers

Mail Merge

• Application and functionality of mail merge
• Preparing the data source (e.g., an address database) and the main document
• Executing mail merge
• Printing labels and envelopes