Microsoft Word Advanced

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This intensive two-day course is designed to allow users to work with Word avanced features. Practical 'hands on' exercises will give participants the chance to create their own templates and styles, work with long, complex documents, use Word's desktop publishing and mail merge tools, using fields to create online forms, customizing Word, sharing documents in workgroups and using data from other Office 2000 applications. Being a workshop the participants will be encouraged to discuss individual requirements relevant to their working environment. This course also contains examples of Year 2000 best practice.

Word Advanced


• Year 2000 Best Practice
• Review exercise
  

  Templates
  

• Creating documents from templates
• Creating and modifying a template
• Attaching a new template
• Loading global templates
• Workgroup templates
  

  Styles
  

• Paragraph and character styles
• Applying styles
• Modifying styles
• Shortcut Keys
• Creating your own styles
• Applying styles as you type
• The Organizer
• The Style Gallery
  

  Desktop publishing
  

• Text flow options
• Creating new page layouts with text boxes
• Inserting pictures into a document
• Aligning text around objects
• Creating watermarks
• Creating and modifying page borders
• Long documents
• Sorting lists and tables
• Working in outline view
• Using find and replace
• Creating a table of contents
• Creating an index
• Bookmarks and cross-references
• Footnotes and endnotes
• Summarising a long document
  

  Mail merge
  

• Creating a Main Document
• Creating a Data Document
• Completing the Main Document
• Editing the Data Document
• Printing mail merge documents
• Working with the Data Source
• Using external data
• Sorting and selecting records
• Creating labels
  

  Fields
  

• Inserting fields
• Toggling between field codes and results
• Updating field codes
• Locking, unlocking and unlinking a field code
• SpeedKeys associated with fields
• Useful fields; The Fill-in field
• Calculating in tables
• Complex calculations
  

  Forms
  

• Creating a form
• Filling in a form
  

  Master documents and subdocuments
  

• Understanding master documents
• Creating master documents
• Working with master/subdocuments
• Using other Word features with master documents
• Printing master documents
  

  Toolbars
  Displaying hidden Toolbars

• Floating and docking Toolbars
• Customising
• Toolbars
• Creating a Toolbar
• The Menu Bar
  

  Macros
  

• What is a Macro?
• Planning a Macro
• Recording and running a Macro
• Editing a Macro
• Assigning a Macro to a Toolbar, menu or shortcut key
• Button Image Editor
• Copying a Macro
• Deleting and renaming a Macro
• Macro virus protection
  

  Sharing documents
  

• Adding comments
• Tracking changes
• Protecting documents from unauthorised changes
• Versioning
• e-mailing documents for review
• Using the Round Trip feature
  

  Sharing data with other applications
  

• Linking and embedding Microsoft Excel worksheets in a table
• Modifying linked and embedded worksheets
• Updating and breaking links
• Creating a chart
• Modifying chart data
• Modifying charts
• Choosing a chart type
• Adding chart elements
• Importing data into a chart
• Working with the Equation Editor
  
  

Course outline

Word Introduction

Word Advanced

Excel Introduction

Excel Advanced

Access Introduction

Access Advanced

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