Microsoft WORD - an Introduction

What Is A Word Processor?
Your word processing system (program plus computer) could be considered to be a typewriter equipped with built in scissors, paste and correction fluid. Although a word processing program functions in the same way as a highly sophisticated typewriter, there are important differences.

You Will Learn About:

Getting Started
opening and closing a document
the mouse pointer
using the keyboard
using the office assistant
Your first document
typing text
automatic spelling & grammar checking
changing text
saving your document
printing your document
Selecting Text For Editing
information preview
scrolling a document
selecting text using the mouse
selecting text using the keyboard
Page Layout
margins
paper size options
forcing page breaks

Open, Close, & Save As
different options of opening/closing a document,
save as
Views, Toolbars,& Options
the different views
zooming the document window
toolbars
Simple Text Formatting
applying bold, italics and underlining to selected text,
changing the font and font size
Simple Paragraph Formatting
indents, bullets, aligning text as you go,
using default tab stops
Undo & Redo
Printing & Print Preview
Headers & Footers
Addressing Envelopes & Labels

By The End Of This Course You Will Be Able To:
Start and exit Word Change and zoom the view; hide and show toolbars Use Undo and Redo Select words, sentences and phrases; apply various fonts, font sizes and styles; align paragraphs Use the menus, toolbar buttons and shortcut key combinations	Create new documents, type text making use of word wrap; correct mistakes using the Spelling and Grammar checker Open, close, save and print documents; use Print Preview to view a document on screen as it would be printed Use the Page Set-up options to set margins, paper size and orientation

The session will be largely self directed using the latest commercial training manuals, thus allowing you to work at your own pace and cover the topics important to you. You will therefore need to prioritise from this information page, prior to the training day to decide what you want to cover.

The Trainer/Tutor
Our trainers are all "Quality Assured" and have a wealth of practical experience in the field of computer applications with qualifications to match. We are using the latest in purpose written Information Technology training courseware.

Having learnt all of the above, you will be able to produce professional documents and letters, address envelopes and save the document files for future use.
GOOD LUCK!