MS Word Basic Training Course

Introduction to text editors

• Capabilities of computer text processing
• Creating and saving documents
• Password protection for documents
• Creating backup copies of documents
• Efficient and precise navigation within documents

Styling

• The role of styles in maintaining consistency, readability, and aesthetics
• Applying style groups and their benefits
• Rapidly adjusting basic text formatting
• Formatting titles and using typographical elements for distinction
• General principles for achieving clear and aesthetically pleasing text

Correspondence - Bullet points and lists

• Utilizing bullet points and numbering
• Maintaining a uniform appearance for lists throughout the document
• Quickly modifying the look of list markers
• Reordering items or adjusting list levels
• Changing numbering styles (e.g., Roman numerals or lowercase alphabetic characters)
• Customising bullet symbols

Tabs

• Types and practical applications
• Inserting and repositioning tabs
• Using tabs in correspondence (e.g., right-aligning dates in headers or creating dotted lines for handwritten signatures)
• Aligning numeric columns

Tables

• Structuring and utilising tables
• Inserting tables
• Enhancing table aesthetics and clarity (e.g., adjusting font sizes, cell borders, internal margins, and background colours)
• Editing tables (e.g., adding or removing rows and columns, and creating merged headers across multiple columns)

Page headers and footers

• Practical applications
• Configuring a distinct header or footer for the first page
• Implementing automatic page numbering (e.g., "Page X of Y")
• Inserting metadata on all pages (e.g., document title, author name, or last updated date)
• Customising the font and size of page numbers (independent from other header/footer content)
• Using separator lines to distinguish header/footer content from the main body

Mail Merge

• Applications and merge mechanisms
• Preparing data sources (e.g., address databases) and main templates
• Executing a print merge
• Printing labels and envelope addresses