MOS: Word 2010

Course details

Module One:

Sharing and Maintaining Documents

• Apply different views to a document: Selecting zoom options, splitting and arranging windows, document views, switching windows, opening a document in a new window.
• Apply protection to a document: Applying protection by using the Microsoft Office Backstage view commands (applying controls and restrictions to document access, password-protect a document, Mark as Final), applying protection by using ribbon commands.
• Manage document versions: Recover draft versions, Delete all draft versions.
• Share documents: Sending documents via E-mail or internet fax, changing file types, creating PDF documents, creating and publishing a blog post, registering a blog account.
• Save a Document: Using compatibility mode, protected mode, and Save As options.
• Apply a template to a document: Finding templates (locating a template on your disk, finding templates on the web).

Module Two: Formatting Content

• Apply font and paragraph attributes: Apply character attributes, apply styles, and use Format Painter.
• Apply indentation and tab settings to paragraphs: Applying indents (first line, hanging), setting tabs, using the Tabs dialog box, setting tabs on the ruler, clearing tabs, setting tab stops, and moving tab stops.
• Apply spacing settings to text and paragraphs: Line spacing, paragraph spacing.
• Navigate and search through a document: Using the Navigation Pane (headings, pages, results), Go To, Browse by button, and Highlight features, and setting Find and Replace options (format, special).
• Apply bullets to a document: Applying bullets, selecting a symbol format, defining a picture to be used as a bullet, using AutoFormat, and promoting or demoting bullet levels.

Module Three: Managing Tables

• Create tables: Using the Insert Table dialog box, using Draw Table, inserting a Quick Table, converting text to tables, and using a table to control page layout.
• Manipulate tables in a document: Sorting content, adding a row to a table, adding a column to a table, splitting, merging, moving, resizing, and deleting a row or column, defining the header row, converting tables to text, and viewing gridlines.

Module Four: Including Illustrations and Graphics in a Document

• Insert and format Pictures in a document: adding captions, applying artistic effects and picture styles, compressing pictures, modifying a shape, adjusting position and size, and inserting screenshots.
• Insert and format shapes, WordArt, and Smart Art: adding text to a shape, modifying text on a shape, adding captions, setting shape styles (border, text), and adjusting position and size.
• Insert and format Clip Art: Organizing ClipArt, captions, artistic effects, compress pictures, corrections, modify the shape, reset, picture styles, arrange options, size
• Apply and manipulate text boxes: Format, save selection to text box gallery, text box styles, text direction, shadow effects, 3-D effects, arrange options.

Module Five: Applying Page Layout and Reusable Content

• Apply and manipulate page setup settings: Setting margins, non-breaking spaces, hyphenation, and columns, working with breaks, forcing a page break, inserting a section break (continuous, Next page, Next Odd, Next Even), and inserting a blank page into a document.
• Apply themes: Use a theme to apply formatting, customize a theme.
• Construct content in a document by using the Quick Parts tool: Adding built-in building blocks (quotes, text boxes, headers, footers, cover pages, watermarks, equations).
• Create and manipulate page backgrounds: Formatting a document’s background, setting a colored background, adding a watermark, and placing page borders.
• Create and modify headers and footers: Inserting and formatting page numbers, inserting the current date and time, inserting a built-in header or footer, adding content to a header or footer (custom dialog box, manual entry), deleting a header or footer, changing margins, and applying a different first page attribute.

Module Six: Proofreading documents

• Validate content by using spelling and grammar checking options: Grammar and style options.
• Configure AutoCorrect settings: Add, remove, exceptions, AutoCorrect dialog.
• Insert and modify comments in a document: inserting a comment, editing a comment, deleting a comment, and viewing a comment (view comments from another user, view comments inline, view comments as balloons).

Module Seven: Applying References and Hyperlinks

• Apply a hyperlink: Hyperlink using text, hyperlink using graphic, headings and bookmarks, create new document, E-mail address.
• Create Endnotes and Footnotes in a document: Manage footnote and endnote location, configure footnote and endnote format, presentation, and numbering.
• Create a Table of Contents in a document: Default formats, show levels, alignment, tab leader, formats, options, modify styles, update table.
• Module Eight: Performing Mail Merge Operations (1 hour)
• Setup mail merge: Perform a mail merge using the Mail Merge Wizard, perform a mail merge manually.
• Execute mail merge: Print, preview.