Introduction to Microsoft Word
Word processing is one of the personal computer's best features, making it easy and fast to create complex documents with features impossible to find on a typewriter. Microsoft Word is the world's most widely-used word processing program and as such is a useful "foundation program" of the Microsoft Office suite: many of its techniques and methods are found in the other Office programs. As a result, this is a good class for anyone with a working knowledge of Microsoft Windows but little additional computer experience. Students start by learning basic terminology and move on to create documents. Text manipulation - entering, deleting, changing, rearranging - is given significant emphasis and many shortcuts are described. Setting page margins, tabs and headers and footers are also covered. The class objectives include:
- Understand fundamental concepts: what is Word and why should I use it?, the cursor, line wrapping.
- Learn the basics: text entry and editing, working with files and selecting text.
- Understanding the environment: issuing commands, the interface, getting help.
- Make your documents look the way you want: formatting.
- Working with documents: basic document views, templates.
- Discuss the cut/copy and paste feature.
- Use the composition tools: spelling and grammar checkers, find and replace, thesaurus.
- Work with page layout and printing features: the Page Layout dialog box, headers and footers, print preview, the Print dialog box.
Visit the class' web page to review the class table of contents and sample slides from the presentation.