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Advanced Word (ECDL)

Summary

This hands-on course is designed for individuals who have already achieved an ECDL certificate. The course will enable students to produce advanced word processing output, illustrating sophisticated typographical, formatting and layout presentations, including. Students will also be able to use tools such as macros and carry out more advanced mail merge operations within the word processing application.

 

Duration

6 Weeks

 

Outline

Managing Documents and Folders

 

MS Word Basics Review

Character and Paragraph Formatting

Paragraph and advanced character formatting techniques

Working with indents and numbered & bulleted lists

Line breaks and line spacing

Hyphenation and non breaking spaces

 

Introduction to Tabs and Tables

Creating, customising, formatting and modifying tabs

Performing calculations in tables

Converting text to tables and importing worksheets and data

Creating charts

 

Macros

Recording and running macros

Assigning a macro to a custom toolbar

Editing, copying, renaming, and deleting a macro

 

Templates and Forms

Creating, using, and modifying templates & forms

Using macros, word fields, and autotext entries in templates

Creating and modifying printed and online forms

Working with form controls

 

Styles

Creating, modifying, navigating, and managing styles

Using styles to create an outline

Using autoformat as you type and with automatic review features

Automatically changing styles

Using edit, replace with styles

 

Outlining

View a document in outline view

Collapsing, expanding, and moving text

Changing heading levels

Merging

Creating the main and data documents

Adding, editing, and deleting records

Creating and printing mail merge documents

Sorting, selecting, and filtering data

Creating catalogs

 

Newspaper Columns

Creating, formatting, and modifying columns

Sorting columns

 

Using Graphics

Inserting, modifying, and formatting graphics

Creating and modifying lines, objects, and 3-D objects

Inserting and modifying wordart and symbols

 

Page Appearance

Print layout view

Creating, modifying, and formatting headers and footers

Modfying margins and page breaks

 

Large Documents

Working with master documents

Creating, generating, and updating a table of contents and an index

Creating, editing, and deleting watermarks

 

Document Layout

Creating borders and shading

Working with mirror and gutter margins

Creating and modifying footnotes and endnotes

Creating and modifying bookmarks and cross references

 

Sharing Documents

Highlighting text and working with comments

Creating and comparing multiple versions of a document

Reviewing, tracking, and merging document changes

Using document protection

Creating, detecting, and modifying hyperlinks

 

Prerequisite

Students must have successfully completed ECDL prior to this course.

 

Cost

€275

 

Funding Availability

No funding is available.

 

 

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