Toms River Regional Schools
Technology Institute

Microsoft Word 1

Microsoft Word XP (I) is designed to provide educators with numerous hands on activities that will enable them to become proficient in the use of Microsoft Word XP.  Upon completion of this course attendees will have the skills necessary to produce professional-looking publications for use in their classrooms.  Topics discussed are listed in the outline below.
 

Creating and Printing a Document from Start to Finish

          Choose New From the File Menu

          Choose the T ype of Document You Wish to Create

          Entering Text

          Editing Techniques

          Proofreading for Spelling and Grammatical Errors

          Print Preview

          Printing

          Saving a Document

          Autorecover

          Exiting Word
 

Changing the Way Documents are Displayed

          Normal

          Web Layout

          Print Layout

          Outline

          Print Preview
 

Entering and Editing Text in a Word Document

          Insert

          Overtype

          Inserting Special Characters

          Autotext

          AutoCorrect

          Deleting Text

          Selecting Text

          Editing a Selection

          Moving and Copying Text
 

Moving the Insertion Point

          Click the Mouse

Key  Combinations

          Scrolling
 

Finding and Replacing Text

          Selecting Text

          Edit-Find

          Find and Replace Dialog Box
 

Other Ways to Navigate Through a Document

          Bookmarks

          Go To Command

          Browse Buttons

          Hyperlinks
 

Formatting a Word Document

          Autoformat

          Applying Themes

          Style Gallery

          Click and Type

          Applying Styles

          Applying Paragraph Styles

          Font Dialog Box

          Formatting Toolbar

          Paragraph Dialog Box

          Copying Formatting
 

Columns and Lists

          Customs Tab Stops

          Using the Ruler to Apply Formatting

          Using Tables

          Drawing Tables

          Creating Newspaper-Style Columns

          Setting Up Columns

          Adjusting Columns

          Creating Bulleted Lists

          Creating Numbered Lists

          Adding Bullets and Numbers Using the Formatting Toolbar

          Using the Bullets and Numbering Dialog Box

          Sorting Lists and Tables

Using Borders and Shading

          Adding Page Borders

          Inserting Horizontal Dividing Lines
 

Using Proofing Tools

          Marking the Language

          Checking Spelling Automatically

          Manual Spell Checking

          Custom Dictionaries

          Checking Grammar

          Using the Thesaurus

          Hyphenating Your Document
 

Use the following links to access course notes, data files and training videos.
 

Course Notes and Training Videos

Course Data Files

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