This course covers all the fundamental skills required to create and format simple, professional Word documents with a variety of layouts.

Open participant course: £195 per person - maximum 10 people

Closed company course: £1,000 per course - maximum 10 people

Those who need to create, edit and print professional documents such as letters, minutes and agendas in Microsoft Word.

By the end of the course, you will be able to enter, edit and delete text, apply formats to text and paragraphs to enhance the appearance of documents, check documents for errors and use lists to itemise data.

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

This course can be delivered remotely or in a classroom environment, to suit your requirements.

Course attendees must be proficient with a mouse and keyboard and be able to confidently work within a Windows environment - minimise, maximise, open, close. 

Attendees must have the following equipment to attend this training remotely:

• PC or laptop with a microphone and speakers (webcam is preferred but not essential).
• Access to the internet and web browser application (e.g. Google Chrome).
• Microsoft Excel installed on the PC or laptop.
• An email account for file sharing.
• A second screen is ideal but not essential.