MS Word intermediate

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Effective and creative use of Microsoft Office Word application potential.

AUDIENCE

People who are fluent in the MS Word environment

BENEFITS

Participants will learn about:

• Basics of proper Microsoft Word use
• Work with text formatting, proper table and graphic elements insertion
• Using tabs, working with whitespace characters
• Quick and effective changes in the edited text
• Working with serial correspondence
• Safe creation of Word files
• Features of Word file version history
• Cloud versioning of Microsoft 365

Participants will gain knowledge on:

• Basics on how to work correctly in Microsoft Word
• Proper edition of document structure and content
• Successful serial correspondence preparation
• Proper protection of Word files
• Effective work with the version history of Word files
• Differences between the Desktop version of Office and the cloud version of Microsoft 365

COURSE SCOPE

1. Document formatting

• Fonts and their correct use, indentation, and the hard space
• Paragraphs
• Format painter
• Bullet points and numbered lists – correct use in practice
• Hidden characters
• How to control the place where the image is displayed
• Various ways to wrap an image with text

2. Tables

• Tables as a way of arranging elements on a page
• Letterhead
• Creating headers and footers – advanced features

3. Working with large documents:

• Tabs and leading characters
• Creating style and formatting a document with them
• Creating tables of contents
• Creating footnotes
• Creating a custom numbering form including an outline
• Embedding objects in a document
• Inserting charts

4. Spelling

• Spell check, creating custom dictionaries, attaching dictionaries
• Thesaurus
• Text translation

5. Security

• Marking a final version of a document
• Password protection
• Cleaning up document metadata
• Protecting against changes

6. Preparing a reproducible document

• Using styles
• Layout of document content using fields
• Quick parts – creation and use

7. Serial correspondence

• Creation rules
• Preparation of the main document
• Data sources
• inserting serial correspondence fields
• Using the If… then… else field
• Viewing and filtering data sources
• Previewing results
• Merging a file

8. Extended use of serial correspondence

• Changing the format of merged data.
• Formatting using field codes.
• Saving merged documents for later use.

9. Formants

• Creating text fields and embedding them within a document
• Simple formulas
• Creating forms and offers

10. Microsoft 365 cloud-based work

• Version history
• Sharing files with non-Microsoft Office users
• Sharing files in the cloud
• Converting speech to text