Screen Layout

• Title Bar
• Menu Bar
• Toolbars
• Scrollbars
• Task Pane
• Ask a question

Word Processing Essential Principles

• Entering and Editing Text
• Name, Address and Date Smart Tags
• Word wrap
• Use of Show/Hide
• Saving Files, Opening Files
• Printing

Viewing Your Documents

• Normal View
• Web Layout
• Print Layout
• Print Preview
• Multiple Documents

Efficient Navigation

• Using Scrollbars
• Using Browse Object
• Go To
• Useful Keyboard Shortcuts

Selecting Text

• Selecting text using the Mouse
• Selecting text using the Keyboard
• Quick ways to select words, sentences, paragraphs
• Selecting non-concurrent text

• Cut, Copy and Paste
• The Clipboard Task pane
• Paste Special

Enhancing Text With Formatting

• Using Font level formats
• Changing font type, size, colour, special effects, character spacing
• Changing the default font for all new documents
• Using Paragraph level formats
• Paragraph justification, indentation, space before and after
• Line and page break options
• Inserting non breaking hyphens and spaces
• Applying borders and shading
• Creating numbered and bulleted lists
• Format Painter
• Styles and Formatting Task Pane
• Revealing formatting
• Clearing formatting

Arranging Text using Tabs

• Using default tabs
• Changing ruler measurement units
• Setting your own tabs
• Using leader tabs
• Using bar tabs

Proofing Tools

• Find and Replace
• Word Count toolbar
• Spell Checker

Essential Page Layout Tools

• Inserting page breaks
• Inserting section breaks
• Changing page orientation
• Adding Headers and Footers
• Page numbering
• Changing Margins
• Adding a Page Border
• Watermarks

Arranging Text using Tables

• Inserting a table
• Changing column widths and row heights
• Inserting new columns and rows
• Distributing columns and rows evenly
• Merging and splitting cells
• Applying formatting
• Repeating heading rows
• Splitting a table

Advanced Tables

• Converting a tabbed list into a table
• Sorting table contents
• Using table formulae
• Features of the Tables and Borders Toolbar
• Nesting one table within another
• Drawing non-uniform tables
• Using tabs within tables

Advanced Page Layout Tools

• Page layout for sections
• Entering vertically within a section
• Different headers and footers for different sections
• Odd / Even Header and Footers
• Newspaper columns

Utilising Automatic Features

• Understanding Word 2003 Automatic Features
• AutoText
• Autocorrect
• Autoformat as you type
• Autocorrect Options Smart Tag
• Customising auto features to suit you
• Create your own autotext entries

Adding Graphics to your document

• Inserting Clipart
• Inserting picture files
• Controlling graphic placement
• The drawing canvas
• Using drawing tools
• Inserting diagrams

Forms and Document Protection

• Creating a layout for your form
• Using Text, Checkbox and Dropdown form fields
• Locking a form
• Saving as a template
• Password protection

Consistent Formatting Using Style

• What are Styles?
• Predefined Heading Styles
• Defining and modifying your own styles
• Replacing one style with another
• Heading Numbering Using Styles
• Using the Style Organizer

Summarising with Outline View

• Connecting outline levels to styles
• Promoting and demoting levels
• Showing and hiding outline levels
• Printing your outline
• The Document Map

Working with Long Documents

• Tables of Contents
• Indexes
• Tables of Figures
• Footnotes and Endnotes
• Cross references
• Bookmarks

Mail Merge

• Using the Mail Merge Wizard
• Creating a data source
• Using an existing data source
• Filtering and Sorting a Data Source
• Creating letters
• Predefined merge field blocks
• Inserting other merge fields
• Word fields: Fill-in, If Then Else
• Creating labels

Tracking and Merging Document Change

• Using Compare and Merge Documents
• Mark Up
• Sending for Review
• Tracking changes
• Accepting and rejecting changes
• Features of the reviewing toolbar
• Saving versions
• Adding Comments

Constructing Templates

• Predefined Word templates
• What can a template contain?
• Saving a document as a template
• Editing and modifying a template
• Including boilerplate text and styles

Introduction to Macros

• Recording Macros
• Where to store Macros
• Running with Keyboard Shortcuts
• Running with Custom Buttons

Basic

• Overview of Word VBA
• Generating code by recording
• The Word Object Model
• The Visual Basic Editor
• The Project Explorer
• Creating sub procedures
• Importance of comments
• Printing your code

Manipulating text

• Insert After/Before
• Selecting text
• Using the Text property
• Retrieving text from a selection
• Formatting a selection
• Toggling formatting
• Finding and replacing text

Objects, properties, methods

• About objects and collections
• Returning an object
• Working with methods
• Working with properties
• Ranges
• The Range object
• Ranges and navigation
• The Characters collection
• The Words collection
• The Sentences collection
• The Paragraphs collection
• The Font object
• The Paragraph Format objects

Programming structure

• Variables and constants
• Declaring and typing variables
• Using conditional structures
• Using looping structures

Dialog boxes

• Built-in dialog boxes
• Dialog box settings
• Capturing return values
• Dialog box events

Controls

• Overview of Active controls
• Creating user forms
• Adding controls to a user form
• Setting properties
• Creating event procedures
• Displaying a user form
• Dismissing a user form