MS Word Basic Training Course

Introduction to text editing tools

• Capabilities of computer-based text processing
• Creating and saving documents
• Protecting documents with passwords
• Managing document backup copies
• Navigating quickly and precisely within a document

Styles

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

Letters - bullets and lists

• Using bullets and numbering
• Maintaining a consistent appearance for lists throughout the document
• Quickly modifying the appearance of bullet points
• Reordering items or changing their hierarchy level
• Changing numbering formats (e.g., Roman numerals or lowercase alphabet)
• Customising bullet styles

Tabs

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

Tables

• Creating and using tables
• Inserting tables
• Enhancing table aesthetics and clarity (e.g., adjusting font sizes, borders, cell padding, and background colours)
• Modifying tables (e.g., adding or removing columns and rows, creating headers spanning multiple columns)

Headers and footers

• Applications
• Setting a separate header or footer for the first page
• Using automatic page numbering (e.g., "Page X of Y")
• Inserting document metadata on all pages (e.g., title, author, or update date)
• Changing the font and size of header/footer numbers independently of the main content
• Using separator lines in headers and footers

Mail Merge

• Applications and underlying mechanisms
• Preparing data sources (e.g., address databases) and the main document
• Executing a mail merge
• Printing labels and addresses on envelopes