Microsoft Word Courses

Do you really know how to use MS Word properly or do you just struggle along doing what you always did? Whether you are self-taught or you think you know a fair bit our Microsoft Word courses offer a convenient way to gain the skills you really need to master this feature rich application.

Our Microsoft Word trainers are based throughout the UK so most clients take advantage of our, cost effective, tailored on-site training options (we come to you!). Alternatively, you can come to one of our facilities.

We train on ALL versions of MS Word, please call us for older version course outlines.

Microsoft Word Intermediate course

1 day

This Microsoft Word Intermediate course expands on your basic skills and introduces delegates to useful features that enable you to create complex and professional longer documents with a consistent look and feel. You will use time saving features such as styles, sections and tables as well as looking at more complex printing options using headers and footers. Finally, you will address how to create a mail merge as well as printing envelopes and labels.

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What will you learn?

At the end of this Microsoft Word Intermediate course, delegates will be able to produce and manage longer documents efficiently using a variety of techniques as well as mastering tasks such as printing labels and doing mail merges.

Audience?

Users who need to expand their basic skills and become more competent in creating and managing more complex documents.

Course Contents

Working with Tables

Inserting/Deleting Rows and Columns
Merging and Splitting
Changing width and height
Changing table alignment
Drawing a table
Adding Borders and Shading
Table Properties
Autofit
Sorting
Converting Text to a Table
Performing Calculations
Repeating Header Rows

Formatting Sections

Understanding Sections
Inserting Section Breaks – Next, Continuous, Odd/Even
Changing the Page Setup for Sections
Using Sectional Headers and Footers
Numbering Pages in Sections

Using Styles

Create and apply Paragraph styles
Create and apply Character styles
Modify styles
Organise styles
Auto style updating

Using Multiple Columns

Creating newspaper style columns
Formatting Columns
Inserting Column Breaks and non-breaking spaces
Balancing Newspaper Columns
Text flow options

Creating Headers and Footers

Inserting Headers and Footers
Page Numbering & Dates
Controlling headers/footers
Odd and Even headers/footers
Different headers/footers for different sections

Creating Templates

Creating/Modifying/Applying a template
Creating a Template based on a document
Creating a Template based on a template
Copying styles between templates

Introduction to Mail Merge

Creating a form letter
Creating a data source
Use criteria to merge
Importing data from Excel/Access

Creating Envelopes and Labels

Creating Envelopes
Creating Mailing Labels

Course Materials

Enliten IT will provide each delegate with a workbook and other useful reference materials where applicable. These may be either paper based or in Adobe pdf format or a combination thereof.

“Very much appreciated the 1-1 training and length of course. I was able to cover all useful aspects of the product. Jodie, Haskoning DHV”Very much appreciated the 1-1 training and length of course

Additional Information

Enliten IT reserves the right to modify course content and materials as required in the interests of continuous course improvement, at any time, without notification.

NOTE: We only offer this Microsoft Word Intermediate course on a private in-house basis.

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