Microsoft Word – Managing Long Documents

Overview

Microsoft Word provides a wide range of tools and features that are designed to be used when creating longer documents.

The goal of this course is to provide you with the knowledge required to use more advanced tools to manipulate large quantities of text, this course will show you how. You will also learn how to create referencing content such as a table of contents and figures, work with footnotes and endnotes, captions, cross-references and indexes.

The course emphasizes hands-on experience, with a series of self-guided exercises integrated into the training.

Prerequisites

• Use of mouse and keyboard
• Ability to navigate the Windows environment
• Create, save and format simple documents
• Use proofing tools such as spelling/grammar and the Editor
• Set page setup and printing options

Objectives

Delegates will learn how to:

• Work more effectively by using Quick Parts
• Format and control text and resolve formatting issues
• Work with document sections to control page setup, headers/footers and page numbering
• Create, apply and manage styles to format documents
• Incorporate referencing tools such as tables of contents and figures; captions, cross referencing and footnotes and endnotes

Outline

Module 1: Working effectively

• Navigate a document
• Use Quick Parts
• Use Find and Replace options

Module 2: Control formatting and paragraphs

• Controlling formatting
• Reveal Formatting
• Controlling paragraph behaviour

Module 3: Working with styles

• Introducing styles
• Applying styles
• The Styles pane
• Modifying styles
• Creating styles

Module 4: Reference Tools

• Table of contents
• Captions and tables of figures
• Cross Referencing
• Footnotes and endnotes
• Indexes

Module 5: Working with sections

• Introduction to sections
• Creating and formatting sections
• Mixing page orientation
• Headers, footers, and page numbers