MOS: Word 2007 Expert

Course details

Module One: Creating and Modifying Advanced Document Types

• Create a mail merge document: creating a new recipient list, selecting recipients from Outlook contacts, and conditional mail merge.
• Create and manage master documents: converting a document to a master document, converting an outline to a master document, importing subdocuments, and managing subdocuments.
• Create forms: creating forms using fields, creating forms using content controls, and protecting forms.

Module Two: Customizing Word 2007

• Customize the Quick Access toolbar: adding commands not in the ribbon, adding separators, and reorganizing commands.
• Change default save options: file formats and file locations
• Assign keyboard shortcuts: assigning keyboard shortcuts to an existing macro, a style, a symbol, or autotext.
• Manage building blocks: distributing building blocks for reuse and creating a custom building block.

Module Three: Managing Styles and Templates

• Manage styles: updating style based on selected text, copying styles from one document or template to another, and setting outline levels for styles.
• Manage style sets: creating a custom style set, saving a custom style set, and modifying an existing style set.
• Manage multilevel lists: creating a multilevel list, linking styles to a multilevel list, modifying an existing multilevel list, and defining a new number format.
• Manage templates: attaching a global template, attaching a local template, automatically updating styles using an attached template, saving style changes to the attached template, and saving gallery changes to the attached template.

Module Four: Managing Data Objects and Automation

• Manage objects: creating an object, embedding an existing object, linking to an existing object, and display as icon.
• Manage XML: viewing XML tags, moving text with XML tags, validating a document against an XML schema, and attaching a custom XML schema.
• Record and edit a macro: recording a macro in a document, recording a macro in a template, inserting a breakpoint, stepping through a macro, and changing actions in a macro.
• Manage an existing macro: moving macros between documents (copy a macro, rename a copied macro, import a macro, export a macro) and configuring macro security (digitally sign a macro, macro security levels).

Module Five: Managing Fields and References

• Create a custom TOC: including or excluding specific levels, including or excluding specific styles, and modifying the TOC properties.
• Insert cross-references within a document: inserting reference to a document element, inserting a specific type of reference, and inserting above/below reference.
• Manage fields: updating all fields in a document, converting all fields of a document to text, creating a custom field by using modifiers and switches, changing the display format of a data field (switches), associating properties in the Document Information Panel, and creating a custom document property field.
• Create object captioning: auto-captioning different object types (numbering, position) and creating a custom label (numbering, position).

Module Six: Managing Content

• Manage visual content: creating a custom watermark and inserting and modifying a SmartArt graphic (modify a SmartArt graphic layout, convert a list to a SmartArt graphic).
• Manage table properties: repeating a header row on subsequent pages, allowing a row to break across pages, and wrapping text around a table.
• Apply paste options: setting default paste options and applying paste options for text, tables, graphics, and lists.
• Find and replace content: finding and replacing content by format, using special characters, and using wildcards.

Module Seven: Managing Documents

• Embed fonts: embedding fonts on the current document, all new documents, all characters, or characters in use.
• Apply variable formatting by using sections: restarting page numbering with a different number format, linking and unlinking headers and footers, changing page orientation, changing page size and margins, and applying advanced page setup options (automatically align content vertically on a page, add line numbering).
• Restrict formatting and editing: restricting editing to selected parts of a document, limiting formatting to specific styles, allowing only specific types of editing, and allowing per-user document permissions.
• Recover documents: Open and Repair, recovering text from any file, and locating the autorecover file (.asd file).
• Combine multiple documents: Insert file option and Insert objects.