The complete online training for Microsoft Word.

Overview

Are you looking to improve your knowledge of Word 2013? This course is ideal if you're a beginner or want to increase your knowledge. It will take you through the full range of functionality, from beginner level to using the advanced features and applications. 

You will learn how to perform tasks at your own pace by following easy step-by-step actions and complete your training in bitesize chunks. Bookmarking allows you to dip in and out, so you can learn whenever suits you, plus you can jump directly to specific topics of interest quickly and easily.

Details

Using interactive exercises and software simulations, you’ll quickly become familiarised with the Word 2013 environment and its documents, functions and features.

As you progress through the course, you will quickly become familiarised with the program interface and the navigation. You will learn how to enter text properly and how to check spelling and grammar in it. You will examine the options of formatting text and the whole paragraphs. You will get to know the settings before printing a document, including page setup and inserting headers and footers into the document pages, you will learn to adjust the program environment to your specific needs.

You will try effective formatting of text by using styles. You will apply the templates offered by the program to create well designed documents. You will examine the creation and editing of tables in order to better arrange the data of a list of records. You will learn to insert various graphical objects to documents, including pictures, charts, SmartArt graphics and shapes and you will try out their further editing directly in Word. You will learn to split documents into sections, especially in order to insert various headers and footers into different pages.

You will learn to create a table of contents based on the document headings, to number inserted pictures and other objects and to create also their automatic list. You will further learn to use fields, hyperlinks and cross-references, footnotes and endnotes.

Modules

The course modules are: 

Create and manage documents

Including: introduction to Word, new documents, editing PDFs, searching, hyperlinks, bookmarks, customisation, toolbars, custom keyboard shortcuts, print and save. 

Format text, paragraphs, and sections

Including: editing and formatting, automatic corrections, symbols and drop caps, creating styles, pagination, advanced setting of headers and footers, columns, multi-page documents. 

Create table and lists

Including: text to tables, graphical appearance of tables, editing the layout, calculations in tables, numbered and bulleted lists, multilevel lists. 

Apply references

Including: footnotes and endnotes, index, bibliography, captions and tables of figures. 

Insert and Format Objects

Including: custom cover page, auto text, inserting and formatting shapes, SmartArt graphics, inserting and editing pictures. 

Certificate

A learndirect certificate will be emailed to you when you have successfully completed the course.