Online Microsoft Word Course
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Overview
The ability to efficiently produce proposals, reports and a host of other business documents is an extremely valuable and transferable business skill. Such documents are used on a daily basis and the ability to write succinct documents enhances professional reputations and relationships.
Microsoft Word is the most commonly used word-processing tool in the business world for achieving this, but its functionality is often under-used. Our CPD UK certified course will give your staff the skills needed to use Word to its full potential and create better documents in less time.
We’ve consulted industry experts to create a syllabus that covers the functions and techniques required for business success.
Description
The course, which employs a combination of written material, images, video examples and exercises, is structured into five sections:
- Simple techniques to improve productivity
- Structure and automation
- Coping with common Word tasks
- Managing Word documents and their production
- Advanced tasks in Word
What's Included?
- Consists business focused Word units from our distilled syllabus
- Contains 20 hours of learning materials but can be completed in as little as 12 hours of dedicated study
- Provides 24/7 access to all learning materials from the date you register
- Available in PC versions 2007/10
- Generates a Certificate of Attainment and a Test Certificate (useful for CPD fulfilment)
- Taught through a blend of text-based articles, practice exercises, video tutorials and multiple choice quizzes and tests
Learning outcomes
- Learn to write simple letters and to use templates for different occasions
- Format font, text and paragraphs in your documents with ease.
- Create lists, tables and schedules of figures.
- Write letters and envelopes, make address labels and learn to mail merge.
Syllabus:
Section 1: Foundation
Unit 1.1 - The Word Interface
Tips and tricks to make the ribbon interface speed up everything you do. How to use the Word navigation pane to jump immediately to the right place in your document. The different Word views and which to use when.
Unit 1.2 - A Simple Letter
Creating a letter with the minimum of fuss.
Unit 1.3 - Typing in the Right Place
Using Page Setup to save time whenever you create any document.
Unit 1.4 - Simple Paragraph Formatting
Making sure your paragraphs behave exactly how you want them to including spacing, how to avoid ending up with one line of your paragraph on page 2 and how using Word Styles is guaranteed to make anyone’s use of Word quicker and better.
Unit 1.5 - Templates
Understanding what the ‘Normal’ template is all about. Creating a Template to cope automatically with letterhead and continuation stationery. Adding standard content to a Template, including the right way to include the date.
Unit 1.6 - A Simple Letter, Better, Faster
Using all the techniques covered in the section to produce a better looking letter in a fraction of the time it took 5 modules ago.
Section 2: Basics
Unit 2.1 - Font Formatting
How not to waste millions of seconds throughout your working life formatting words inefficiently. Some of the less well-known, but still useful, font formatting commands. The Format Painter – double the fun.
Unit 2.2 - Paragraph Formatting
How to use a range of different paragraph formats from the straightforward to the less obvious.
Unit 2.3 - Styles and Themes
Why Word Styles can change your life and how to manage them. Using Themes to format an entire document with a single click.
Unit 2.4 - Pages and Sections
Using headers and footers including documents where odd and even pages need to be different. The importance of Sections and how they allow you to include a landscape page in the middle of an otherwise portrait document.
Unit 2.5 - Automating Word
How Word’s Building Blocks help you add all sorts of Word content quickly and easily and how you can turn your own content into a re-usable Building Block. The hidden capabilities of Word’s search feature.
Unit 2.6 - Spelling and Grammar
Using the Spelling and Grammar checker. How to tame AutoCorrect and AutoFormat. Let the Thesaurus help you find the right word and the research pane to explain what it means.
Section 3: Common Tasks
Unit 3.1 - Lists, Tables and Schedules of Figures
From simple lists to complicated schedules. The hidden depths of Word’s Tables feature and why you only need to suffer the pain once.
Unit 3.2 - Envelopes and Labels
Producing envelopes and labels – making sure the right text appears in the right place.
Unit 3.3 - Mail Merge
How to use your Outlook Contact addresses in Word. Using Mail Merge to produce separate letters, envelopes or label for all of your customers. Advanced users of Mail Merge including calculations and conditional content.
Unit 3.4 - Graphics
The range of graphics that you can include in a Word document including why the SmartArt feature is much more Smart than Art and how to include and format pictures, shapes, business diagrams and Charts. Allowing graphics and text to live together in harmony – the secrets of Layout and Word Wrap.
Unit 3.5 - Create a Newsletter
Pages with multiple columns. Inserting graphics and wrapping text around them. From simple text boxes to text that flows from box to box. How to print a booklet.
Unit 3.6 - Tips and Shortcuts
Troubleshooting Word documents that someone else has mangled (or that have just gone a bit wrong).
Section 4: Administration
Unit 4.1 - Working Collaboratively
The career-threatening dangers of sharing Word documents and how to avoid them. Using track changes when collaborating on documents. Word’s Web App and collaborating on Word documents on the Internet.
Unit 4.2 - Printing and Other Output Formats
Printing and saving directly to PDF.
Unit 4.3 - Customizing Word
A comprehensive guide to the Word options that can make Word work the way you want it to.
Unit 4.4 - Housekeeping
Managing files and folders. Some guidance on passwords.
Unit 4.5 - Basic Use of Macros
An introduction to simple macros and macro security based on the practical example of creating a new letter with a single click.
Section 5: Taking Word Further
Unit 5.1 - Forms and Form Fields
Working with Fields to help users produce documents quickly and accurately. Creating Forms in Word for users to fill-in.
Unit 5.2 - Complex Numbering
Why Outline Numbering is the only way to implement a complex numbering scheme without driving you to distraction and the other advantages that Outline Numbering gives: automatic tables of contents and cross-references.
Unit 5.3 - Coping with Long Documents
The power of sections. Working with Master and Sub-documents. Incorporating references in Word documents: endnotes, footnotes, citations and bibliography, table of authorities and picture and diagram captions. Building an index to a Word document.
Who is this course for?
- Our training is applicable to all users, beginners looking to learn the ropes all the way through to experts looking to master advanced techniques.
- Whether for professional use or personal projects, the likely hood is that you use Word in some capacity. Whether for writing letters, reports or essays, this course will teach you everything you need.
Requirements
- PC or Mac with a full version of Microsoft Word (any version from 2003 to 2013 or Microsoft 365).
- Not a requirement but a benefit to have some work-related projects to which you can readily apply what you learn.
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