Microsoft Word 2013 Level 2

Course Aims:

This course is aimed at existing users of Microsoft Word who want to expand their basic knowledge of the product.

Course Pre-requisites:

Students who wish to attend this course must have a basic knowledge of Word and feel comfortable with creating, saving, editing and formatting a document, working with simple bullets and numbering and creating basic tables.

Course Objectives:

On completion of this course delegates will be able to:

• Create columnar layouts using tabs
• Use advanced table design techniques
• Manipulate and calculate with data in a table
• Insert an Excel spreadsheet into a document
• Apply borders and shading to documents
• Store frequently used text as "Quick Parts" (AutoText)
• Customise bullets and numbering and create multilevel lists
• Use mail merge to send a letter to multiple addressees
• Use advanced mail merge techniques
• Create newspaper style columns and insert and work with graphics
• Find and replace text
• Export a document

Course Content:

Introduction and Objectives

Setting Tabs

• Adding & editing custom tabs
• Creating a leader tab

Advanced Table Design

• Merging & splitting table cells
• Splitting a table
• Sizing a table automatically
• Adjusting column and row widths automatically
• Changing text direction
• Adjusting cell margins
• Setting table properties
• Drawing a table
• Converting a table to text
• Placing table headings on all pages
• Sorting table data
• Using formulas in tables

Borders & Shading

• Applying to table columns and rows
• Applying to text and paragraphs

Importing Excel Worksheets

• Linking a document to Excel data
• Creating an Excel spreadsheet in a document

Using “Quick Parts” (AutoText)

• Creating, inserting and deleting AutoText

Working with Lists

• Understanding ‘AutoFormat As You Type’
• Customising numbered/bulleted lists
• Controlling the start number of a numbered list
• Bulleting/numbering a multilevel list
• Using list styles
• Resetting bullet/number styles
• Sorting a list alphabetically

Working with Mail Merge

• Identifying the main document
• Creating a data source
• Adding merge fields to a document
• Previewing and completing a mail merge
• Sorting & filtering records to be merged
• Creating labels

Using Newsletter-style Columns

• Creating newsletter-style columns
• Changing column width & spacing
• Adding a vertical line between columns
• Balancing column length

Sharing Documents

• Emailing a document
• Saving a document as PDF
• Share a document on SkyDrive
• Password protecting a document file
• Removing a password

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