Course Profile

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Are you interested in joining or is presently employed in a profession that involves working with Word on a frequent basis? Then this is the right course for you.

This course is a step-by-step guide designed to provide you with comprehensive training on the fundamentals of the word processor. As a part of this workshop, you’ll get hands-on experience regarding how to add, move through, and edit text, move words from one part of your document to another, work on two or more documents simultaneously, change the size or appearance of text, change margins and tab settings, and automatically center, right align, justify, and indent text. You will also be trained on how to run the integrated grammar and spelling checker, use the thesaurus as well as save, retrieve, copy, organize, and print your documents.    

The topics covered in each new monthly session include:

Week 1

Wednesday - Lesson 01
•    Introduction to Word
•    Typing a Word Document

Friday - Lesson 02
•    Document Navigation

Week 2

Wednesday - Lesson 03
•    Basic File Management

Friday - Lesson 04
•    Editing Documents
•    Cutting and Pasting

Week 3

Wednesday - Lesson 05
•    Working With Multiple Documents

Friday - Lesson 06
•    Text Formatting and Alignment

Week 4

Wednesday - Lesson 07
•    Printing

Friday - Lesson 08
•    Margins, Tabs, and Page Numbering

Week 5

Wednesday - Lesson 09
•    Indentation
•    Paragraph Formatting

Friday - Lesson 10
•    Language Tools

Week 6

Wednesday - Lesson 11
•    Customizing Word

Friday - Lesson 12
•    Advanced File Management

Anyone interested in joining or currently employed in a profession that involves working with Word on a frequent basis can attend this course.

Students enrolling for this course should have the following:
• Internet access
• Email
• One of the following browsers: 
•    Mozilla Firefox 
•    Microsoft Internet Explorer (9.0 or above)
•    Google Chrome
•    Safari
• Adobe PDF plug-in (a free download obtained at Adobe.com)

After completing this course, students will be able to develop a thorough understanding of Word and utilize it more confidently at home or at work.