Microsoft Word Intermediate

Duration: 5 half days (15 hours)

Level: Intermediate

Target Audience: End Users

Prerequisite: Participants should have at least a basic level of Microsoft Word

About this course

This course goes beyond the basics of Microsoft® Office Word 2007, helping you to increase the complexity of your Word documents. You will create customized efficiency tools, and add customized lists, tables, charts, and graphics to your documents. These skills will allow you to efficiently produce high-quality, effective, sophisticated documents.

Courses Outline

Part 1: Styles

• Examining formatting
• Creating styles
  • Applying a style
  • Creating a style by example
  • Basing one style on another
  • Controlling pagination by using styles
  • Creating a character style
• Modifying styles
  • Modifying a style
  • Overriding a style
  • Modifying the Normal style
  • Exporting a style
• Outlining
  • Creating an outline
  • Organizing an outline
  • Formatting an outline
• Using Full Screen Reading view

Part 2: Sections and columns

•  Creating and formatting sections
• Inserting and deleting section breaks
• Formatting sections
• Inserting section headers and footers
• Formatting section page numbers
•  Working with columns

Part 3: Formatting tables

• Table formatting basics
  • Aligning text in table cells
  • Merging table cells
  • Splitting table cells
  • Changing text orientation
  • Changing row height
• Borders and shading
  • Changing table borders
  • Shading table cells
• Table data
  • Sorting table data
  • Splitting a table
  • Repeating the header row
  • Entering a formula in a table
• Table styles

Part 4: Printing labels and envelopes

• Labels
  • Printing multiple labels for a single address
• Envelopes

Part 5: Templates and building blocks

• Template basics
  • Using a template
  • Creating a document from a user-defined template
  • Saving a template in the Templates folder
• Building blocks
  • Using the Building Blocks Organizer
  • Inserting, Creating, Modifying and deleting building blocks
• Document properties

Part 6: Graphics

• Diagrams
  • Creating an organization chart
  • Formatting an organization chart
• Drawing tools
  • Drawing a shape
  • Modifying a shape
  • Inserting a text box
  • Formatting a text box
  • Arranging multiple objects
  • Changing a shape into another shape
• Formatting text graphically

Part 7: Managing document revisions

• Tracking changes in a document
  • Tracking changes while editing
  • Reviewing and accepting revisions
  • Viewing changes by different reviewers
  • Restricting edits to tracked changes
  • Managing multiple documents simultaneously
  • Merging revisions
• Working with comments

Part 8: Web features

• Web pages
  • Previewing a document as a Web page
  • Saving a document as a Web page
  • Opening an HTML document in a browser
  • Editing an HTML document in Word
• Hyperlinks