MS Word Basic Training Course

Introduction to the use of 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 the document

Styles

• The importance of styles for maintaining consistency, clarity and visual appeal
• Style groups and their use
• Quickly changing basic text formatting
• Formatting headings and applying typographic elements to distinguish them
• General principles for achieving clear and aesthetically pleasing text

Bullets and Lists

• Using bullets and numbered lists
• Maintaining a consistent appearance for lists throughout the document
• Quickly changing the appearance of list items
• Reordering items or adjusting their level within a list
• Changing numbering styles (for example, Roman numerals or lowercase letters)
• Customising bullet symbols

Tabs

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

Tables

• Structure and use of tables
• Inserting tables
• Ensuring tables are clear and visually appealing (for example, adjusting font sizes, cell borders, internal margins, and background colours)
• Modifying tables (such as adding or removing rows and columns, and creating headers that span multiple columns)

Headers and Footers

• Application of headers and footers
• Setting a unique header or footer for the first page of the document
• Using automatic page numbering (including formats such as "Page number of total pages")
• Inserting document metadata on all pages (for example, title, author, or update date)
• Changing font type and size for page numbers independently from the rest of the header or footer content
• Using header/footer separators (the line that separates content from the main text)

Mail Merge

• Applications and the underlying mechanism of mail merge
• Preparing the data source (for example, an address database) and the main document
• Printing merged documents
• Printing labels and addresses on envelopes