Microsoft Word 2013 Level 3

Course Aims:

This course is aimed at people who want to begin using Microsoft Word as a desk-top publishing tool in order to create more complex documents and carry out some basic automation.

Course Pre-requisites:

Students who wish to attend this course must have a good knowledge of Word, including table design, paragraph formatting and automatic numbering of lists.

Course Objectives:

On completion of this course delegates will be able to:

• Pre-store formatting using styles and apply styles to text
• Format different parts of a document using section breaks
• Work with long documents using outline view, document map and inserting summary information
• Mark specific parts of a document with bookmarks and cross references
• Insert a footnote and endnote into a document
• Generate a table of contents and index
• Create standard documents using templates and forms

Course Content:

Introduction and Objectives

Using Styles

• Using built-in ‘Quick Styles’
• Viewing the styles list
• Creating and applying custom paragraph styles
• Creating and applying custom character styles
• Revealing styles in Draft View
• Modifying existing styles
• Reverting to the ‘Normal’ style
• Deleting a style
• Copying styles to other documents

Using Outline View

• Understanding outline levels
• Applying outline levels to paragraphs
• Working in Outline View
• Collapsing/expanding outline headings
• Moving an outline level
• Auto numbering outline levels
• Viewing the document ‘Navigation Pane’

Creating a Table of Contents

• Inserting a table of contents into a document
• Updating a table of contents
• Modifying table of content styles
• Replacing/removing a table of contents

Using Section Breaks

• Understanding section breaks
• Inserting a ‘Next Page’ section break
• Modifying document layout for a section
• Inserting a ‘Continuous’ section break
• Removing a section break
• Inserting automatic section breaks
• Modifying a section type
• Changing the header/footer for a document section

Advanced Paragraph Formatting

• Using text flow options
• Entering & Inserting Summary Information
• Using AutoSummarise

Using Bookmarks

• Inserting/deleting bookmarks in a document
• Using bookmarks for cross-references and hyperlinks

Using Footnotes & Endnotes

• Adding automatically numbered footnote annotations
• Editing and deleting footnote annotations
• Adding automatically numbered endnote annotations

Creating an Index

• Marking a document with index entries
• Generating & updating an automatic index

Using Templates & Wizards

• Using built-in or online templates
• Creating a custom template
• Modifying a custom template
• Deleting a custom template

Using Forms

• Creating content controls
• Text controls
• Combo control
• Check control
• Date picker control
• Using Word ‘Legacy’ controls
• Protecting a form
• Unprotecting and editing a form
• Printing a form

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