Microsoft Word

Here at The IT Training Surgery, we know that making time for learning new skills to improve your performance can be a challenge. We have developed a series of  Microsoft Word half-day courses so that your teams can learn what they need in half-day bursts.

Courses can be run online using video communication software e.g. Zoom or at your premises on your computers.

Choose from the following:

Styles and Templates

By the end of the course, you will able to create a template for those documents you regularly create, include, and amend styles so that the formatting takes care of itself.

In particular, you will be able to:

• Create, modify and use Heading Styles
• Set up a standard document template to include standard text and Heading Styles
• Use keyboard shortcuts to speed things up
• Use and create Building Blocks for standard blocks of text
• Create a template to include all standard items, including Styles and a Table of Contents.

Tables and Mail Merge

By the end of the course, you will able to send a letter to many recipients.

In particular, you will be able to:

• Use keyboard shortcuts to speed up common tasks
• AutoCorrect those regular spelling mistakes
• Use AutoText (Quick Parts) to add blocks of frequently typed text
• Create and modify tables
• Applying borders and shading to tables
• Use Table Styles
• Understand the Mail Merge process
• Create the data source (the list you will write to)
• Create the data document (the document you are sending)
• Complete the merge

Introduction to Microsoft Word

By the end of the course, you will able to produce a basic letter and report.

In particular, you will be able to:

• Familiarisation with the layout of Word, use the Ribbon and tailor the Quick Access Toolbar
• Create a New document
• Enter and edit text
• Save a document to a folder, OneDrive for Business or a site
• Open existing documents
• Print Preview/Printing
• Move around within a document
• Insert additional text
• Select text (mouse, keyboard)
• Format text – attributes bold, italics, underlining, fonts and size
• Apply text alignment
• Use the Undo/Redo buttons
• Apply page layout option, margins, and orientation
• Insert headers and footers
• Create Bullets and Numbering