Word Basics
Word Basics
- Word Overview – the User Interface, Quick Access and Mini Toolbar
- Standard & Contextual Ribbons
- The File Tab
- Status Bar Tools
- Dialog Boxes
- Task Panes
- Using Help
Basic Microsoft Word Usage and Text tools
- Creating new blank documents
- Accessing and opening templates to create documents
- Saving, closing and opening Documents
- Understanding non-printing characters
- Selection techniques (keyboard + mouse)
- Navigating documents
- Using Word Views, e.g. Print layout and Draft and reading
- Entering text and understanding basic text features. (word-wrap)
- Using Find/Replace
- Spell Check, Thesaurus
Format Your Document
- Applying Font formats – Changing font type, size, colour, special effects, character spacing
- Changing the default font for all new documents
- Using Paragraph formats – justification, indentation, space before and after Paragraph
- Line spacing, Widow and orphan control
- Inserting non breaking hyphens and spaces
- Applying borders and shading
- Format Painter
- Using Cut, Copy and Paste
- Revealing formatting and Clearing formatting
Bullets & Numbering
- Turning on Bullets
- Creating & editing bulleted list styles
- Changing bullet types and formatting
- Turning on Numbered Lists
- Creating your own numbered list style
- Changing numbering types
Working with Tabs
- Understanding Tabs
- Changing the default Tab Stop
- Setting and manipulating Tab markers on the ruler
- Setting and manipulating Tab markers in the Tab Dialog box
- Using leader tabs
- Using bar tabs
- Setting the measurement units for the Ruler (Imperial and Metric)
- Using Tabs in a Document
Setting up your Document
- Inserting and Deleting page breaks
- Changing page orientation to Landscape or Portrait
- Viewing Headers and Footers
- Creating Basic Page numbering
- Setting Margin Sizes
- Using Page Borders
- Inserting a Watermark
Printing
- Printing a Document
- Setting Print options
- Previewing a document
- Selecting a print