Using Microsoft Word efficiently will help you create good looking documents quickly. This course develops essential Word skills needed to create, edit, format and print documents and explores many of the most important features of the course. If you have some computing skills, but have little experience with Word or are new to Word, this course is right for you.

Overview

This course introduces you to those skills in Microsoft Word that are essential to create, modify and format simple documents.

Content

  • Understand the Word screen layout
  • Create and save documents
  • Preview and print a document
  • Delete and insert text
  • Move and copy text
  • Spell check documents
  • Apply character formatting
  • Use paragraph formatting (alignment, spacing, indents, borders, bulleted and numbered lists)
  • Insert page breaks and page numbers.

Learning Outcomes

Participants should be able to:

  • Create, edit and save documents
  • Move and copy text
  • Produce well formatted documents
  • Add lines and borders to headings
  • Create numbered lists
  • Insert page breaks
  • Add page numbers to simple multi-page documents.
Course Number
941
Skill Level
Fundamentals
Dates
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    Duration

    1 Day
    Time
    Location

    AIM WA Floreat

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