Microsoft Word - Advanced

Course details

This course is for Microsoft Word users who want to use Word to its full potential. If you have attended or understand the concepts covered at introductory and intermediate level, this advanced course would be your next step. Its main focus is to introduce users to more specialist areas of Word’s functionality.

The course is designed to introduce tools, which lend themselves to longer and more technical documents such as company reports. The course also covers the automating of some document processes by using Macros and Fields.

Word Templates

• Creating Documents from Templates
• Creating and Modifying Template
• Switching Templates

Fields

• Inserting Fields
• Toggling between Field Codes and Results
• Updating Field Codes
• Useful Fields
• The Fill-in Field
• The Formula Field

Using Forms

• Creating a Form
• Filling in a Form

Styles

• Paragraph and Character Styles
• Applying Styles
• Modifying Styles
• Creating Your Own Styles
• Applying Styles as You Type
• The Organizer
• The Style Gallery

Sharing Documents

• Highlighting Text
• Adding Comments
• Tracking Changes
• Versioning

Working with Long Documents

• Working in Outline View
• Creating a Table of Contents
• Creating an Index
• Bookmarks and Cross-References
• Footnotes and Endnotes
• Auto Summarise

Locating and Managing Documents

• Searching by Filename and Drive
• Searching with Advanced Search Criteria
• Fine-Tuning Searches
• Wildcards

Advanced Merging

• Mail Merge
• Working with the Data Source
• Using External Data
• Sorting and Selecting Records
• Creating Labels

Working with Macros

• What is a Macro?
• Planning, Recording and Running a Macro
• Editing a macro
• Assigning a Macro to a Toolbar, a Menu and a Shortcut Key
• Copying a Macro
• Deleting and Renaming a Macro

Equation Editor

• Working with the Equation Editor