MS Word Basic Training Course

Introduction to text editing.

• Capabilities of computer-based text processing
• Creating and saving documents
• Securing documents with a password
• Creating document backups
• Navigating through the document quickly and precisely

Styles

• The importance of styles for maintaining consistency, clarity, and aesthetic appeal
• Style sets and their application
• Quickly changing basic text formatting
• Formatting titles and using typographic features to distinguish them
• General principles for achieving clear and aesthetically pleasing text

Bullet Points and Lists

• Using bullets and numbering
• Maintaining a consistent look for lists throughout the document
• Quickly changing the appearance of a bullet
• Altering the order or indentation level of list items
• Changing the numbering format (e.g., Roman numerals or lowercase letters)
• Switching bullet styles

Tabs

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

Tables

• Structure and usage of tables
• Inserting tables
• Enhancing table aesthetics and clarity (such as adjusting font sizes, borders, cell margins, and background colors)
• Modifying tables (e.g., adding or removing rows and columns, creating merged cells spanning multiple columns)

Headers and Footers

• Applications
• Setting a unique header or footer for the first page
• Using automatic page numbering (including formats like "Page X of Y")
• Inserting document metadata on every page (e.g., title, author, or update date)
• Changing the font and size of numbers independently from the rest of the header/footer content
• Using header/footer separators (lines to divide content)

Mail Merge

• Applications and underlying mechanisms
• Preparing the data source (e.g., an address database) and the main document
• Performing the mail merge
• Printing labels and addresses on envelopes