Microsoft® Word

• This four-week course is intended for people who have some knowledge about a computer, can open and close a file, and want to improve their word processing skills.
• It will prepare students to become comfortable working in the Windows environment, sharpen their mouse skills, improve their letter writing, envelopes and word layouts.
• Basics or PC Intro, or equivalent knowledge, is a prerequisite for enrolling in the Word courses.

Week One

Lesson One:

Provides exposure to some of the editing features of the Word program. Students will insert, delete and select text, move through a document and save a document. They will learn to work in two documents that are open at the same time and to use the spell checker and print preview.

Lesson Two:

Continuation of lesson one working in two documents that are open at the same time, corrections, deleting and editing.

Week Two

Lesson Three:

The lesson introduces students to formatting characters' font, size, color and style. They will use menu commands as well as toolbar buttons.

Lesson Four:

Builds on character formatting skills in activities that teach the students to format paragraphs using the toolbar and ruler. They will practice alignment, line spacing, paragraph spacing and indents.

Week Three

Lesson Five:

Students will learn to use tabs and tables to align text and create columns.

Lesson Six:

Learn about page layout options and create headers and footers, set columns and insert page numbers and page breaks.

Week Four

Lesson Seven:

Students are introduced to advanced features in Word. They will create numbered lists, use special characters and create footnotes. They will insert a clip art picture in a word processing document.

Lesson Eight:

Students will "find and replace" in a document and write a form letter using fields from a pre-existing database. They will learn how to use mail merge to address envelopes. A database file is provided.