Word 2010 Basics
Audience
This course is appropriate for individuals with a basic knowledge of Windows and the 2010 Microsoft Office Suite who want to establish a solid working foundation in Microsoft Word.
Structure
This course is a combination of lecture and hands-on guided instruction. Course manual and quick reference guide provided.
Course Length
Half Day
Topics
The Ribbon
- Overview
- Group scrolling and more Buttons
- Two part buttons
- Contextual ribbons
- Accessing dialog boxes
- Minimize/restore the Ribbon
- Keytips
Office Backstage
- Info
- Recent
- New
- Save and send options
- Help
Quick Access Toolbar
Explore the Environment
- Document title
- View Ruler toggle
- View shortcuts
- Zooming
Windows management buttons
- Scroll bars
- Status bar
Document display options and navigation
- Display non-printing symbols
- Full screen reading view
- Navigate within a document
Editing Tools
- Spelling and grammar checkers
- Autocorrect
- Autotext
- Thesaurus
- Find/Replace
- Mini toolbar
- Live preview
Select text
- Select text with mouse and/or keyboard
- Select noncontiguous text
Manage text
- Delete/undelete text
- Move or copy text
Advanced Office Clipboard tools
- Paste format options
- Paste options
- Clipboard options
- Copy/move between files
Format text
- Insert symbols & special characters
- Apply or remove attributes
- Adjust the line space
Work with Help
- Print Help topics
- Screentips
Keyboard shortcuts
Word 2010 Advanced Tools
Audience
This course is for individuals with a strong knowledge of Word 2010 who want to use templates, automation tools and mail merge more effectively.
Structure
This course is a combination of lecture and hands-on guided instruction. Course manual and quick reference guide provided.
Course Length
Half Day
Topics
Autocorrect tricks
- Use Autocorrect for quick words
- Create an Autocorrect entry
- Use Autocorrect entry
Building Blocks
- Use established Building Blocks
- Create a Quick Part
- Create other types of Building Blocks
- Delete Building Blocks
Mail merge
- Create a database
- Work with mail merge tools
- Create letters
- Create labels
- Save a merge
Customize Open Box
Protecting documents
Templates
- Understand a template contents
- Use a template
- Create a template
- Modify a template
- Save an existing document as a template
Forms
- Developer tab
- Insert form fields
- Format form fields
- Save a form as a template
- Protect a template
File properties
- Changing file properties
- Using file properties
Create Table styles
Word 2010 Formatting and Tables
Audience
This course is appropriate for individuals with a basic knowledge of Word 2010 who want a greater understanding of formatting and guidance on using the tables to best advantage.
Structure
This course is a combination of lecture and hands-on guided instruction. Course manual and quick reference guide provided.
Course Length
Half Day
Topics
Word’s format levels
- Character level properties
- Paragraph level properties
- Section level properties
Select to affect
- Select text with the keyboard
- Select text with the mouse
Special tools
- Reveal formatting
- Format Painter
- Manual page breaks
Character level formatting
- Apply attributes
- Turn highlight on/off
- Remove attributes
- Change font, color, size
- Additional formatting options
Paragraph level formatting
- Paragraph alignment
- Line spacing
- Manage tabs
- Create dot leader tabs
- Additional paragraph formatting
- Number and bullet lists
Section level formatting
- Section breaks
- Margins, orientation, paper size
- Headers and footers
Styles basics
- Purpose of styles
- Applying styles
Simple picture formats
- Text wrap
- Cropping, compressing, applying effects
Word tables
- Create/delete a table
- Insert a quick table
- Use table styles
- Reposition/resize the table
Manage table columns and rows
- Select columns/rows
- Resize columns/rows
- Insert/delete columns/rows
Manage table cells, text, data
- Change text direction and alignment
- Change cell margins
- Merge or split cells
- Sort table data
- Perform math
Word 2010 Styles and Long Documents
Audience
This course is appropriate for individuals with a strong knowledge of Word 2010 who want to work more efficiently in larger documents.
Structure
This course is a combination of lecture and hands-on guided instruction. Course manual and quick reference guide provided.
Course Length
Full Day
Topics
Word fundamentals review
- View options
- Navigate a document
- Word format levels
- Section breaks
- Office Clipboard
Find and replace tricks
- Apply formats
- pecial characters
Work with styles
- Benefits of styles
- Apply styles
- Create character styles
- Modify character styles
- Create paragraph styles
- Modify paragraph styles
- Specify the location for styles
Heading styles
- Benefits of headings
- Create document structure
Navigation Pane
Manage documents in outline view
- Move outline levels
- Collapse/expand levels
- Apply number formats
- Modify number formats
Create an automatic table of contents
- Use headings for entries
- Manual mark entries
- Insert the table of contents
- Define table of contents levels
- Modify the table of contents
Table Styles
- Use table styles
- Modify table styles
- Create table styles
Define headers and footers
- Building blocks
- Custom
- Alternate even/odd
- Page numbering
Create an index
- Manually mark index entries
- Mark with a concordance file
- Insert an index
Track changes
- Recording document modifications
- Accepting/rejecting changes
- Workflow issues
- Compare documents
- Work with comments
Work with master documents (optional)
- Benefits of master documents
- Workflow issues
- Create a new master document
- Insert subdocuments
- Remove subdocuments
