Microsoft Word 2003 Intermediate
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 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 2003 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 2003 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 2003 or for those in employment that involves using Microsoft Word to produce word processing documents, which may include drawing tables and pictures, inserting graphics, using various styles, layouts, headers and footers and formatting techniques and performing mail merge.
Learning Objectives
On completion of Microsoft Word 2003 Intermediate, you should be able to:
- Customise toolbars
- Hand-draw tables and manipulate them
- 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 2003
- 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 data
- 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
- Wrapping text around pictures
Working with Drawings
- The drawing toolbar
- Creating drawing objects
- Working with drawing objects
- Duplicating drawing objects
- Drawing freehand
- Formatting and colouring objects
- Adding text to a drawing
Using Styles
- Styles
- Applying existing styles
- Applying styles to text
- Creating a new style
- Creating a character style
- Manually modifying a style
- Styles by example
- Automatically modifying styles
- Deleting a style
- Renaming a style
- Modifying character styles
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
- Deleting 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
- Using fields in headers and footers
Fields
- Document information fields
- Working with fields
- Formula fields
- Unlinking fields
- Updating fields when printing
- Printing field codes
- Editing field codes
- Locking and unlocking fields