Microsoft Word 97 Training

Outline

1. Contents
2. Description
3. Audience
4. Prerequisites
5. Objectives
6. Topics Include
7. Duration
8. Minimum Requirements
9. Media

Description

Word 97 Training will provide the learner with the skills necessary to efficiently use Word 97, Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) certification exam.

Audience

Designed for learners who currently use or are beginning to use Microsoft Word 97.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the Microsoft Windows environment, and ability to use a keyboard and mouse.

Objective

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Working with paragraphs
• Using tables
• Using mail merge
• Creating and formatting tables
• Working with documents
• Working with pictures and charts
• Using advanced features
• Creating and modifying a table of contents

Topics Include

Getting Started

• Use the Menu bar, Standard toolbar, Formatting bar
• Choose options in a dialog box
• Save and close a document
• Close word

Formatting and Aligning Text

• Select and change font and font size (automatically and manually)
• Apply font formatting lick bold, Italic
• Use all underline options
• Highlight text in a document
• Change the alignment of paragraphs
• Apply character effects, such as superscript, subscript, strikethrough,small caps and outline

Formatting Paragraphs

• Set line spacing options
• Use indentation
• Use tabs
• Add bullets and numbering to text
• Set tabs with leaders

Printing Documents and Envelopes

• Print a document
• Use print preview
• Set page orientation
• Set margins
• Align text vertically
• Prepare and print envelopes and labels

Editing a Document

• Cut, copy, insert and move text in a document
• Use the Overtype mode
• Create and apply frequently used text
• Set AutoCorrect exceptions
• Use the Undo and Repeat command

Checking Grammar and Spelling

• Locate and open an existing document
• Use the Spelling feature
• Use the Thesaurus feature
• Use the Grammar feature
• Save a document with a different name

Creating and Modifying Headers and Footers

• Create and modify headers and footers
• Alternate headers and footers
• Create and modify page numbers
• Insert date and time

Using the Draw Tools

• Insert Symbols
• Create and modify lines and objects
• Create and modify 3-D shapes
• Insert graphics into a document

Using Templates to Create a Web Page

• Use templates to create a new document
• Save a document as HTML
• Browse through files
• Create a hyperlink

Creating and Formatting Tables

• Create and format tables
• Add borders and shading to tables
• Revise tables and modify table structure
• Rotate text in a table

Working with Longer Documents

• Use hyphenation (nonbreaking and soft hyphens)
• Use nonbreaking spaces
• Insert page breaks
• Create sections with formatting that differs from other section

Creating and Using Newspaper Columns

• Create and use newspaper columns
• Revise column structure
• Apply borders and shading to paragraphs

Using Find and Replace and Creating Folders

• Find and replace text
• Save a document with the same name
• Create a folder

Working with Styles

• Create an outline
• Modify an outline
• Apply styles
• Navigate through a document
• Use Go To locate specific elements in a document

Working with Paragraphs

• Apply shading to paragraphs and sections of a document
• Use text flow options to improve a document's appearance
• Sort lists, paragraphs, and tables

Formatting Documents

• Format first page differently than subsequent pages
• Create and modify page borders
• Create watermarks
• Edit styles
• Use bookmarks

Formatting Longer Documents

• Use Find and Replace formatting and special character features
• Balance column lengths
• Create and modify footnotes and endnotes
• Work with master documents and subdocuments

Working with Document Reference Items

• Create and modify a table of contents
• Create a cross-reference
• Create and modify an index

Using Tables

• Embed worksheets in a table
• Perform calculations in a table
• Link Excel data as a table
• Modify worksheets in a table

Modify worksheets in a table

• Add bitmapped graphics
• Delete and position graphics
• Create and modify charts
• Import data into charts

Preparing for a Mail Merge

• Create a main document
• Create a data source
• Sort records to be merged

Using Mail Merge

• Merge a main document and a data source
• Generate labels
• Merge a document using alternate data sources

Using Macros

• Create, apply, and edit macros
• Copy, rename, and delete macro projects

Copy, rename, and delete macro projects

• Insert a field
• Create and modify a form

Aligning Text with Graphics

• Create and modify a form control
• Use advanced text alignment features with graphics
• Customize toolbars

Duration

10 hrs

Minimum Requirements

Shockwave 8.0, 200 MH Pentium CPU (266 recommended), 32 MB of available RAM, (64 recommended), Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT; (Windows 2000 or NT require 64MB of RAM)

Media

Web Based Training

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