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Microsoft Word 2003 Advanced

Details

Time: 09:00 to 16:00
Venue: AP Courses Training Room
Cost: £295
Included in the price: Learning manual for the course; lunch, refreshments and post-course support.

Course Description

Microsoft Word 2003 Advanced is designed for users who are keen to extend their understanding and knowledge of the software.  The skills and knowledge acquired in Microsoft Word 2003 Advanced are sufficient to be able to use and operate the software at a proficient level.

Course Design

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

Target Audience

Microsoft Word 2003 Advanced assumes that you have a general understanding of personal computers and have used a mouse and keyboard, and it would be beneficial to be comfortable in the Windows operating system environment.  The course is intended for persons pursuing Microsoft Office Specialist Certification in Microsoft Word 2003 or for those in employment that involves using Microsoft Word to produce documents that require the use of auto features, various styles and layouts, merge techniques, WordArt, importing from other Microsoft applications and working with fields and macros.   

Learning Objectives

At the completion of Microsoft Word 2003 Advanced you should be able to:

  • Use the AutoText, AutoComplete, AutoCorrect, and AutoFormat features
  • Import Excel, Word and Access data into a Word document
  • Manage the use of styles
  • Create, modify and delete bookmarks, endnotes and footnotes
  • Work with columns
  • Use outlining in documents
  • Perform more complex merge operations
  • Use the WordArt feature in Word
  • Create fields that prompt the user for input
  • Create macros in Word

Course Content

Using Word Automatics

  • Creating AutoText entries
  • Using AutoText entries
  • Creating AutoComplete entries
  • Using AutoComplete entries
  • Using AutoCorrect
  • Adding AutoCorrect entries
  • AutoFormatting text
  • AutoFormatting as you type
  • Adding AutoText to a template
  • Inserting a date that updates
  • Inserting automatic page numbering

Importing

  • Pasting a worksheet
  • Linking a worksheet
  • Inserting a document
  • Importing a database table
  • Importing a chart
  • Embedding a worksheet
  • Modifying an embedded worksheet
  • Creating charts from worksheet data
  • Creating charts from tables
  • Modifying chart formatting
  • Positioning charts in documents

Managing Styles

  • Copying styles to another document
  • Applying copied styles
  • Saving a style to the active template
  • The style gallery
  • Changing the root style

Longer Documents

  • Bookmarks
  • Deleting bookmarks
  • Creating footnotes
  • Creating endnotes
  • Converting footnotes and endnotes
  • Modifying footnotes and endnotes
  • Changing footnote and endnote text
  • Modifying footnote and endnote positioning
  • Deleting footnotes and endnotes
  • Creating a table of contents
  • Navigating using a table of contents
  • Updating a table of contents
  • Updating page numbering
  • Formatting a table of contents
  • Marking index entries
  • Creating a concordance file
  • Using a concordance file
  • Deleting unwanted index entries
  • Creating an index
  • Modifying an index
  • Marking citations
  • Generating a table of authorities
  • Creating cross-references
  • Deleting cross-references

Columns

  • Creating columns
  • Specifying column settings
  • Balancing column text
  • Creating columns using the toolbar
  • Changing column widths from the ruler
  • Inserting column breaks
  • Deleting column breaks

Outlining

  • Creating a new document in outline view
  • Working with an outline
  • Outline numbering
  • Outlining an existing document
  • The document map
  • Assigning outline levels to paragraphs

Merging Techniques

  • Performing a conditional merge
  • Sorting a merge
  • Merging from another data source
  • Using IF for merging
  • Skipping records
  • Merging statistics
  • Merge fields that prompt for information
  • Merging with prompts
  • Editing the mail merge data source

WordArt

  • Creating WordArt
  • Editing WordArt
  • Moving and resizing WordArt
  • Using WordArt tools
  • Formatting WordArt

Prompting Fields

  • Using the fill-in field
  • Typing fields into a document
  • Activating fields
  • Using the ask field
  • Using REF to display bookmarks
  • Activating prompting fields automatically

Macros

  • Understand Word Macros
  • Setting a Macro security level
  • Recording a simple Macro
  • Running a Macro
  • Assigning a Macro to a toolbar
  • Modifying a Macro tool
  • Assigning a Macro to a menu
  • Assigning a Macro to a shortcut menu
  • Creating a custom pull-down menu
  • The many ways of running a Macro
  • Editing a Macro
  • Deleting a Macro
  • Removing references to Macros
  • Creating a Macro button field
  • Tips for developing Macros
  • Recording a Macro for page setup
  • Copying a Macro