Total Time: 7 hour(s)

Summary: 
This course shows users how to use a word processing application to create documents and manipulate and format text. This course also shows users how to prepare a document for printing, preview and print a document, create tables, import objects, and merge a mailing list with a document. This course describes how to meet European Computer Driving Licence objectives using Microsoft Word on a personal computer that uses a Windows operating system. The ECDL test can be taken with any word processing application, and although this course demonstrates a specific application, the tasks it teaches can be applied to other applications as well.

Ojectives: 
After completing this course, students will be able to:
Start and exit a word processing application
Create, save, and close a document
Open, revise, and save a document to another file type
Use application help
Change display settings
Use templates
Format characters and paragraphs
Search and replace text
Apply styles
Prepare a document for printing
Check spelling in a document
Preview and print a document
Create, manipulate, and format a table
Add and manipulate graphics and objects
Use a mailing list

Topics: 
Getting Started
Adding Text and Using Templates
Manipulating Text
Searching Text and Formatting Paragraphs
Finishing a Document
Printing a Document
Using Tables
Manipulating Graphics and Objects
Using a Mailing List

Technical Requirements: 
P500+ Processor, 128MB of RAM; Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Minimum screen resolution 800x600, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher; Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher; Flash 8.0 or higher; 56K minimum connection; broadband (256 kpbs or higher) connection recommended; Javascript, DHTML and cookies enabled; Sound card with speakers or headphones strongly recommended.