Word 2016 Course Basic E-Learning

• Target group: Beginners with some basic knowledge who want to master the basic functionalities of Word
• Level: Basic (also available in Advanced and Expert)
• Required knowledge level: Basic computer knowledge
• Course duration: 07:00 (depending on personal speed)
• Online access: 24/7, 365 days after activation
• Online book included
• Certificate of Participation included (after a minimum of 70% success rate)

Word Training

This is a unique Word course, version 2016. You follow the course in a virtual Office environment with practical assignments and interactive videos with voice and subtitles and real-time analysis of your answers. Your progress is tracked via reports.

Thanks to its high quality, this e-Learning prepares you for with Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exam. The e-Learning has been developed by MOS teachers with more than 27 years of experience and the publisher is a Microsoft Gold Partner.

If you complete more than 70% of the e-learning, you can apply for a certificate of participation and there is the possibility of SCORM.

Course content

Basic

• You need to know: About your word processor 
• Opening a document
• Overview of the environment
• Moving around a document
• Displaying the nonprinting characters
• You need to know: Text made easy
• Entering text
• Managing paragraphs
• You need to know: Selecting, copying, moving
• Selecting and deleting text
• Undoing, redoing, repeating an action
• You need to know: Saving files
• Saving a document
• Creating a new document
• You need to know: Formatting characters
• Applying a quick style
• Applying a theme
• Formatting characters
• Character colour
• Character case
• Character font and size
• Paragraph indents
• Paragraph alignment
• Paragraph spacing
• Line Spacing
• Borders and shading
• Moving text
• Copying text
• Page layout
• Zoom
• Printing
• Page breaks
• You need to know: Headers and footers
• Headers and footers
• Page numbering
• Setting a tab stop
• Tab stop with a leader line
• Managing tab stops
• Numbered and bulleted lists
• Customised bulleted list
• Customised numbered list
• Different levels in a list
• List styles
• Line breaks
• Hanging indents
• Using Microsoft Word Help
• Inserting a document cover page blank page
• Hyphenation
• Nonbreaking space or hyphen
• Inserting special characters
• Character spacing and position
• Finding text formatting
• Replacing text formatting
• Copying formats
• Checking spelling and grammar
• Managing a custom dictionary
• AutoCorrect settings
• Finding synonyms
• Search and translation functions
• Views and windows

Advanced

• Create a table 
• Creating and filling in tables in Word.
• Creating a table
• Moving around filling in a table
• Selecting and inserting rows and columns
• Deleting rows and columns
• Table styles
• Formatting cells
• Row height and column width
• Alignment in cells, table alignment
• Merging or splitting cells
• Converting text to table, table to text
• Sorting a table or a list of paragraphs
• Calculating in a table
• Drawing an object
• Sizing rotating adjusting a drawing object
• Moving copying a drawing object
• Inserting a picture
• Document background
• Charts
• Diagrams
• Formatting a drawing object
• Text in a drawing object WordArt
• Formatting text in an object/WordArt
• Managing a picture
• Positioning and wrapping a picture
• Inserting objects from other applications
• Inserting a document cover page blank page
• Hyphenation
• Inserting special characters
• Character spacing and position
• Drop caps
• Managing a custom dictionary
• AutoCorrect settings
• Search and translation functions
• Statistics and document properties
• Creating a form
• Protecting and using a form
• Views and windows
• Moving around a long document
• Sections
• Using different headers and footers
• Managing automatic page breaks
• Footnotes endnotes
• Managing footnotes endnotes
• Hierarchy of titles
• Outline view
• Table of contents

Expert

• Captions and table of illustrations
• Bookmarks
• Cross references
• Hyperlinks
• Text in columns
• Master document
• Index
• Citations and bibliography
• Creating envelopes/address labels
• You need to know: The mail merge
• Mail merge: associating document and recipients
• Inserting mail merge fields
• Running a mail merge
• Editing the recipients
• Adding and deleting recipients
• Sorting a list of recipients
• Selecting the records to print
• Conditional text in a mail merge
• Printing labels via the mail merge
• Fields for variable data
• You need to know: Styles and templates
• Creating a style
• Using the Styles pane
• Modifying a style
• The Normal style
• Deleting a style
• Style sets
• Displaying formatting details
• Creating and customising a theme
• Creating a template
• New document Basicsd on a template
• Modifying and deleting templates
• Changing the template attached to a document
• Copying styles to other files
• Managing application preferences
• You need to know: Customising the ribbon
• Digital signatures
• Versions and recovery of files
• Blog posts
• You need to know: Exporting data
• Transfer, export: PDF, XPS, text, web page, e-mail
• Comments
• Tracking changes
• Managing tracked changes
• Merging and comparing documents
• Protecting a shared document
• Protecting a document with a password
• Finalizing a document
• Converting Word documents

What is Word?

Microsoft Word is a popular word processing program developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools, which also includes applications like Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Word allows users to create, edit, format, and save text documents. It offers a wide range of features and tools for creating professional-looking documents, such as reports, letters, resumes, and more. Users can customize the formatting of text, apply styles and themes, insert images and tables, add headers and footers, create bulleted and numbered lists, and perform spell-checking and grammar correction.

Word provides a user-friendly interface with a toolbar and ribbon that contains various commands and options for manipulating text and formatting. It supports collaboration features, allowing multiple users to work on the same document simultaneously and track changes made by each person.

Over the years, Word has become the industry standard for word processing and is widely used in various professional and educational settings. It has evolved to support different file formats, including .doc, .docx, and .pdf, ensuring compatibility with other word processing programs and facilitating document sharing and distribution.

10 benefits of Word

1. User-friendly: Microsoft Word offers an intuitive and user-friendly interface, making it easy to create and edit documents.
2. Comprehensive features: Word has a wide range of features and tools to format text, insert images, create tables, check spelling and grammar, and more. This enables users to create professional-looking documents.
3. Templates and themes: Word comes with a variety of templates and themes that users can use to quickly create professional-looking documents. This saves time and effort when formatting documents.
4. File compatibility: Word supports various file formats, such as .doc, .docx and .pdf. This allows users to easily share and exchange documents with others who may be using other Word processors.
5. Real-time collaboration: Word offers the ability to collaborate on a document in real time. Multiple users can simultaneously work on the same document, track changes and add comments, facilitating collaboration.
6. Automatic spelling and grammar check: Word includes a built-in spelling and grammar checker function that can identify and correct typos and grammatical errors. This helps users create accurate and error-free documents.
7. Formatting options: Word allows users to format text with different fonts, colours, styles and alignment options. They can also adjust bullets, numbering, indentation and paragraph spacing to improve the readability and visual attractiveness of the document.
8. Graphics options: Word provides functionality to insert images into documents, create graphs and charts and edit graphics. This helps clarify information and create visually appealing presentations.
9. Automatic formatting and styles: Word uses styles, which allow users to maintain consistency in the formatting of their documents. With a few clicks, users can change the style of the entire document and quickly apply professional and consistent formatting.
10. Advanced features: In addition to the basic features, Word also offers more advanced capabilities, such as creating tables of contents, footnotes, cross-references, automatic summaries and inserting bibliographies. These features are useful when creating more complex documents, such as reports and academic papers.

Why is Word important?

Microsoft Word is important because it is a powerful and versatile tool that helps create professional documents, improve productivity and facilitate collaboration. It makes it easy to organise, edit and share information, making it an indispensable programme for both individuals and organisations.

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