MS Word Basic Training Course

Introduction to Using Text Editors

• Possibilities of computer text processing
• Creating and saving documents
• Securing documents with a password
• Backup copies of documents
• Quick and precise navigation through the document

Styles

• The importance of styles for easy maintenance of consistency, transparency, and document aesthetics
• Style groups and their use
• Quickly change basic text formatting
• Format titles and use typographical resources to distinguish them
• General rules for obtaining clarity and aesthetic texts

Letters - Bullets and Lists

• Use of bullets and numbering
• Maintaining a consistent look throughout the document's lists
• Quickly change the appearance of a bullet
• Changing the order or the level of the item in the list
• Changing the numbering format of enumerated lists (e.g., Roman numerals or lowercase letters of the alphabet)
• Change bullets

Tabs

• Types and Applications
• Inserting and changing the position of the tab
• Using tabs in correspondence (alignment dates in the document header to the right margin or dotted space for a handwritten signature)
• Align columns of numbers

Tables

• The construction and use of tables
• Inserting tables
• Aesthetics and transparency of tables (such as changing font sizes, edges, internal margins, and background color of the cells)
• Modifying tables (such as adding and removing columns and rows, and creating headers common to several columns)

Headers and Footers in Pages

• Application
• Setting a separate header / footer for the first page of the document
• Using automatic page numbering (including numbers such as "Page N of M")
• Insert information on all pages of the document's metadata (e.g., title, author, or date of update)
• Change the font and size of text for numbers (independently from the rest of the contents of the header / footer)
• The use of separator lines in headers / footers (the line separating the content)

Mail Merge

• Application and possible mechanisms of mail merge
• Preparing the data source (for example, an address database) and the basic document
• Perform Mail Merge
• Printing labels and addresses on envelopes