investors in people REC member one group many options
 

Microsoft Word 2002 Intermediate

Details

Time: 09:00 to 16:00
Venue: AP Courses Training Room
Cost: £245
Included in the price: Learning manual for the course; lunch, refreshments and post-course support

Course Description

Microsoft Word 2002 Intermediate is designed for users who are keen to extend their understanding and knowledge of the software.  The skills and knowledge acquired in Microsoft Word 2002 Intermediate are sufficient to be able to use and operate the software at an efficient level.

Course Design

The course is a full-day tutor-led course that combines tutoring and practical work.

Target Audience

Microsoft Word 2002 Intermediate assumes little or no knowledge of the software.  However, it would be beneficial to have a general understanding of personal computers and the Windows operating system environment and to have used a mouse and keyboard.  The course is intended for persons pursuing Microsoft Office Specialist Certification in Microsoft Word 2002 or for those in employment that involves using Microsoft Word to produce word processing documents, which may include using tables, pictures and graphics, various styles and formatting techniques and performing mail merge. 

Learning Objectives

  • Customise toolbars
  • Draw tables in a document
  • Create and work with tables
  • Insert a picture into a document, and move, resize and crop pictures
  • Create new drawings, and resize, move, group, duplicate and move drawing objects
  • Create and modify a style, and apply a style to text in a document
  • Create the documents required for a merge, perform a merge and create mailing labels
  • Use sections to correctly format your documents
  • Create headers and footers
  • Create automated fields within a document

Course Content

Customising Toolbars

  • Understanding toolbars in Word 2002
  • Creating a new toolbar
  • Adding tools to a toolbar
  • Deleting tools and toolbars

Drawing Tables

  • Drawing a table
  • Evenly spacing table lines
  • Nesting a table

Table Features

  • Creating a table from text
  • Creating formulas
  • Updating calculations
  • Sorting table date
  • Merging cells
  • Splitting cells
  • Table gridlines
  • Inserting an external table
  • Table properties
  • Changing table alignment
  • Wrapping text around a table
  • Changing row height
  • Changing column widths
  • Changing text alignment in a table
  • Stretching and dragging tables
  • Changing text direction
  • Creating a repeating header row

Working with Pictures

  • Inserting a picture
  • Moving a picture
  • Resizing a picture
  • Cropping a picture
  • Understanding picture wrapping

Working with Drawings

  • The drawing toolbar
  • Creating drawing objects
  • Working with drawing objects
  • Duplicating drawing objects
  • Drawing freehand
  • Formatting & colouring objects
  • Adding text to a drawing

Using Styles

  • Styles
  • Applying existing styles
  • Creating a new style
  • Manually modifying a style
  • Styles by example
  • Automatically modifying styles
  • Deleting a style
  • Renaming a style

Merging

  • The 6-step merge process
  • Selecting the starting document
  • Selecting recipients
  • Writing the letter
  • Previewing the merge
  • Performing the merge
  • Printing a single label
  • Creating a mailing label main document

Sections

  • Inserting a next-page section break
  • Inserting a continuous section break
  • Controlling odd and even section breaks

Headers and Footers

  • Creating headers
  • Creating footers
  • Formatting headers and footers
  • Changing first-page headers and footers
  • Creating odd and even pages
  • Creating section headers

Fields

  • Document information fields
  • Working with fields
  • Formula fields
  • Unlinking fields
  • Updating fields when printing
  • Printing field codes