Microsoft Word Fundamentals

Course Overview

Microsoft Word Fundamentals

This course covers essential skills to create and format professional documents with varied layouts.

Course Content

Getting Started with Word

• Navigating the Word interface
• The ribbon and commands
• Help and “Tell me what you want to do”
• Creating new documents
• Saving and updating an existing document

Navigating, Entering, Deleting and Selecting Text

• Moving around a document
• Inserting and deleting text
• Techniques for selecting text

Formatting

• Formatting text
• Copying formats with the format painter
• Paragraph alignment and line spacing

Editing and Proofing Tools

• Cut, copy and paste techniques
• Automatically correcting errors
• Correcting spelling and grammatical errors
• Using the thesaurus

Tabs, Indents, Bullets and Numbers

• Creating, modifying and deleting tab stops
• Indenting text
• Moving and removing indents
• Bulleted and numbered lists
• Applying automatic bullets and numbers

Changing Page Layout

• Adjusting page margins
• Landscape and portrait orientation
• Inserting page breaks
• Inserting page numbers, headers and footers

Viewing and Printing Documents

• Changing view and zoom settings
• Using print preview features
• Printing a document