MS Word 2010 - Intermediate

This course is designed to build professional level skills using MS Word to create advanced level documents.

Entry Requirements

Students will require a basic level of computer skills and some experience with MS Word is essential

Student Instructions

Please bring a pen and exercise book/paper for note taking. You will need a Memory stick/USB flash drive (512 Mb/1Gb is ideal) for saving your work and taking your files home to practice with.

Topics

The below lessons are structured around 3 hours sessions.

Lesson 1:
Formatting paragraphs

  • Alignment
  • Indenting
  • Bulleted and numbered lists
  • Lines spacing
  • Borders and shading
  • Formatting the page

Page set up
Margins
Section breaks
Headers and footer
Print preview

Lesson 2:
Tabs

  • Setting left, right, centre, decimal and bar tabs
  • Adjust tab position and type
  • Tab leaders
  • Delete tabs

Tables

  • Insert a table
  • Change column width and row height
  • Insert and delete columns and rows
  • Table styles
  • Borders and shading
  • Convert a table to text
  • Convert text to a table
  • Calculations

Lesson 3:
Styles

  • Applying character styles
  • Applying paragraph styles
  • Modifying styles
  • Creating a table of contents

Automating features

  • AutoCorrect
  • Quick Spelling and Grammar
  • Building Blocks
  • Cover page

Career Prospects

Working in an Office environment.

Delivery Style

Teacher instruction, complemented by independent student work using a work book supplied as part of the course. This course is information based and designed to cater to a wide range of learner needs with facilitator assistance

Outcomes

Students will gain the ability to create and modify high level professional documents and apply sohisticated formatting in the MS Word