MS Word Basic Training Course

Introduction to Text Editor Usage

• Capabilities of computer-based text processing
• Document creation and saving procedures
• Password-protecting documents for security
• Creating backup copies
• Efficient and precise navigation within a document

Styles

• The role of styles in maintaining consistency, readability, and aesthetic appeal
• Applying style groups effectively
• Rapid adjustments to basic text formatting
• Formatting titles and using typographical elements to distinguish sections
• General principles for creating clear and visually pleasing text

Lists and Bullets

• Utilising bullet points and numbered lists
• Ensuring visual consistency across all lists in the document
• Quickly updating the appearance of list items
• Reordering items or adjusting hierarchy levels
• Customising numbering formats (e.g., Roman numerals or lowercase letters)
• Modifying bullet symbols

Tabs

• Overview of tab types and their applications
• Inserting and repositioning tabs
• Applying tabs in formal correspondence (e.g., aligning dates to the right margin or creating space for signatures)
• Aligning columns of numerical data

Tables

• Constructing and utilising tables effectively
• Process of inserting tables
• Enhancing table aesthetics and readability (including font adjustments, borders, internal margins, and cell background colours)
• Editing table structure (adding/removing rows and columns, and creating header rows that span multiple columns)

Headers and Footers

• Practical applications of headers and footers
• Configuring distinct headers or footers for the first page
• Implementing automatic page numbering (including formats like 'Page X of Y')
• Inserting document metadata such as title, author, or last updated date on all pages
• Customising font and size for page numbers independently of other header/footer content
• Applying separator lines between header/footer content and the main body

Mail Merge

• Understanding Mail Merge applications and mechanisms
• Preparing data sources (e.g., address databases) and base documents
• Executing the merge print process
• Printing labels and envelope addresses