Workshop: Word Part 1

Learning Word can be beneficial for many reasons, including:

  • The most widely used tool for creating professional documents including business letters, proposals, long documents and resumes

  • Enhances your ability to communicate effectively in the workplace

  • Career opportunities including increased salary

  • Increased productivity

  • Opportunities to collaborate

  • Integration with other applications

Target Student: Anyone who wants to learn the basics of Word to create and work with professional documents. The workshop is designed to provide a foundation of knowledge and skills that can be built upon.

Learning Objectives: At the end of this workshop, the learner will become familiar with the layout of Word, navigate documents, create basic basic documents, proof, format text and paragraphs, save time by using Templates, preview and print documents and use the Help system.

Prerequisites: Familiarity using a personal computer including a mouse and keyboard, comfort working in the Windows environment.

What you’ll learn in this workshop:

    • About Word

    • The Word Environment

    • The Title Bar

    • The Ribbon

    • The “File” Tab and Backstage View

    • The Quick Access Toolbar

    • Touch Mode

    • The Ruler

    • The Scroll Bars

    • The Document View Buttons

    • The Zoom Slider

    • The Status Bar

    • The Mini Toolbar

    • Keyboard Shortcuts

    • Opening Documents

    • Closing Documents

    • Creating New Documents

    • Saving Documents

    • Recovering Unsaved Documents

    • Entering Text

    • Moving Through Text

    • Selecting Text

    • Non-printing Characters

    • Working with Word File Formats

    • AutoSave Online Documents

    • Changing Document Views

    • Showing & Hiding the Ruler

    • Showing & Hiding Gridlines

    • Using the Navigation Pane  

    • Zooming the Document

    • Opening a Copy of a Document in a New Window

    • Arranging Open Document Windows

    • Split Window

    • Comparing Open Documents

    • Switching Open Documents

    • Switching to Full Screen

    • Deleting Text

    • Cutting, Copying & Pasting

    • Undoing & Redoing Actions

    • Finding & Replacing Text

    • Selecting Text & Objects

    • The Spelling & Grammar Tool

    • Setting Default Proofing Options

    • Using the Thesaurus

    • Finding the Word Count

    • Translating Documents

    • Read Aloud in Word

    • Formatting Fonts

    • The Font Dialog Box

    • The Format Painter

    • Applying Styles to Text

    • Removing Styles from Text

    • Aligning Paragraphs

    • Indenting Paragraphs

    • Line Spacing & Paragraph Spacing

    • About Documents & Sections

    • Setting Page & Section Breaks

    • Creating Columns in a Document

    • Creating Column Breaks

    • Using Headers & Footers

    • The Page Setup Dialog Box

    • Setting Margins

    • Paper Settings

    • Layout Settings

    • Adding Line Numbers

    • Hyphenation Settings

    • Using Templates

    • Creating Personal Templates

    • Previewing and Printing Documents

    • Microsoft Search in Word

    • Using Word Help

    • Smart Lookup