Give your documents a more professional look by applying correct and clear formatting and inserting tables, pictures and diagrams. You will learn how to work with section breaks, headers, footers and troubleshooting skills for when formatting goes wrong. You will also learn to send emails and letters to large groups of people using mail merge. If you have used Word for some time and want to improve the presentation of your documents, this course is for you.

Overview

This course will teach you how to create eye-catching, professionally formatted documents in Microsoft Word. It introduces tables, pictures, diagrams, important formatting features and mail merge.

Content

  • Paragraph formatting (spacing, tabs, indents and hanging indents, multilevel numbering)
  • Tables
  • Sort lists of information
  • Mail merge
  • Page and section formatting (breaks, columns, margins, paper orientation, headers and footers)
  • Create drawings and diagrams
  • Insert and manipulate pictures
  • Copy text or graphics from Excel and other applications.

Learning Outcomes

Participants should be able to:

  • Use a variety of paragraph formatting techniques
  • Create and format tables
  • Use mail merge to personalise emails, letters and labels
  • Use a variety of page and section formatting techniques
  • Use headers and footers in simple and complex documents
  • Insert and manipulate graphics
  • Create diagrams with SmartArt
  • Copy information from other Word documents and programs.

Qualification Pathway

Please click on the qualification link below for Qualification pathway information and total fees.

Nationally Recognised Training

BSB40420 Certificate IV in Human Resource Management

BSB40120 Certificate IV in Business

Course Number
942
Skill Level
Intermediate
Dates
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    Duration

    2 Days
    Time
    Location

    AIM WA Floreat

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