MS Word Basic Training Course

Introduction to Text Editors

• The capabilities of computer-based text processing
• Creating and saving documents
• Protecting documents with a password
• Managing backup copies of documents
• Navigating through documents quickly and accurately

Styling

• The role of style in maintaining document consistency, transparency, and aesthetics
• Understanding and applying style groups
• Efficiently modifying basic text formatting
• Formatting titles and using typographical elements to distinguish them
• General principles for creating clear and aesthetically pleasing texts

Lists: Bullets and Numbering

• Utilizing bullets and numerical ordering
• Maintaining a uniform appearance across document lists
• Quickly adjusting the visual style of lists
• Modifying the sequence or hierarchy of list items
• Customizing enumeration formats (e.g., Roman numerals or alphabetic characters)
• Changing bullet symbols

Tabs

• Types and practical applications
• Inserting tabs and adjusting their position
• Applying tabs in correspondence (e.g., right-aligning dates in headers or creating dotted lines for signatures)
• Aligning columns of numbers

Tables

• Constructing and utilizing tables
• Inserting tables
• Enhancing table aesthetics and readability (adjusting font sizes, borders, internal margins, and cell background colors)
• Editing tables (adding/removing rows and columns, and creating headers that span multiple columns)

Page Headers and Footers

• Practical applications
• Configuring unique headers or footers for the first page
• Implementing automatic page numbering (including formats like 'Page X of Y')
• Inserting document metadata on all pages (e.g., title, author, or last modified date)
• Customizing the font and size of page numbers independently from other header/footer content
• Using separator lines to distinguish header/footer content

Mail Merge

• Applications and the underlying mechanics of merging
• Preparing data sources (such as address databases) and base documents
• Printing merged documents
• Generating labels and printing addresses on envelopes