Microsoft Word 97 Expert User

Course Code NGE71022

Contents

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

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Description

This self-paced learning course will instruct you on working with the advanced features of Microsoft Word 97. The unique Skill Builder instruction uses text, questioning, practice, quizzes and multiple study paths to create a learning environment that enhances your enjoyment and comprehension. Preassessment testing in the beginning of each unit will allow you to have a personalized study path based on the knowledge and skills demonstrated. Mastery modules at the end of each unit allow you to verify your understanding of key skills and guide you back to any content that warrants further study.

Audience

This course is intended for experienced Microsoft Word users who wish to leverage Word's more advanced features and options. Participants should have taken Microsoft Windows 95 Fundamentals (Course 70011) and Microsoft Word 97 Proficient User (Course 71021).

Prerequisites

(Currently no course prerequisite information)

Objective

• Personalize form letters.
• Create formal reports, technical reports, proposals and studies.
• Create newsletters, brochures and manuals.
• Create forms.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Managing Files and Advanced Page Appearance

• Protect documents.
• Add comments using document summary information.
• Create subdirectories.
• Print color documents.
• Add graphics.
• Position and delete graphics.
• Insert fields.
• Create special characters.
• Record and run macros.
• Edit macros.
• Use macros to create templates.

Unit 2: Group Editing and Distributing Documents

• Track changes to a document.
• Insert comments.
• Route documents.
• Highlight text in a document.
• Create multiple versions of a document.
• Simultaneous editing.
• Merge documents.
• Create master documents.
• Create and modify a form.
• Create catalogs and lists.
• Create a variable file.
• Create a form file.
• Create a merged document.
• Merge form and variable data.
• Sort lists, paragraphs and tables.
• Sort records to be merged.

Unit 3: Elements of a Publication

• Create cross references.
• Use nonbreaking spaces.
• Use text flow options.
• Work with newspaper columns.
• Balance column length.
• Keep text in columns together.
• Import worksheets in a table to update.
• Modify worksheets in a table.
• Perform calculations in a worksheet.
• Create worksheets in a table.
• Create and modify a table of contents.
• Create and modify an index.
• Create a cross reference.
• Use bookmarks.

Unit 4: Enhancing Documents

• Create and modify charts.
• Import data into charts.
• Create and modify page borders with and without shading.
• Apply paragraph and table borders with and without shading.
• Create Watermarks.
• Format first page differently than subsequent pages.
• Alternate headers and footers.
• Create and revise footnotes and endnotes.

Duration

8

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently, only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

Media