Office 2013 Training Manuals – Microsoft Word 2013 Foundation Courseware

Microsoft Office 2013 Courseware

Course Outlines

The Microsoft Word 2013 screen

• Starting Microsoft Word 2013
• The Microsoft Word 2013 opening screen
• To create a new blank document
• The levels of command organisation
• The file tab
• Ribbon tabs
• Groups
• Dialog box launcher

Starting to use Microsoft Word 2013

• Using the default Microsoft Word document
• Saving Microsoft Word documents
• Opening and closing documents
• Save as
• Creating a new, blank document using a keyboard shortcut
• Using help within Microsoft Word
• Alt key help
• Closing Microsoft Word

Using templates to create documents

• Creating new documents using different templates
• Using online templates

Manipulating text

• Select, then format
• Selecting text
• Inserting, deleting, undo and redo
• Insert and overtype mode
• Copying text within a document
• Moving (cutting) text within a document

Pining files and folders and opening documents

• Pinning
• Recently open documents
• Viewing a document where you left off

Microsoft Word 2013 text formatting

• What is text formatting?
• Font type
• Font size
• Decrease and increase font size icons
• Font size keyboard shortcut
• Bold, italic and underline
• Subscript and superscript
• Case changing
• Highlighting
• Font colour
• Copying text formatting
• Removing formatting
• Using zoom
• Inserting special characters and symbols

Microsoft Word 2013 paragraph formatting

• Paragraph marks
• Soft paragraph (line break) marks
• Recommended techniques for aligning and indenting text
• Aligning text
• Indenting paragraphs
• Applying single or double line spacing within paragraphs
• Applying spacing above or below paragraphs
• Using paragraph spacing rather than using the return key
• Applying bullets to a list
• Applying numbering a list
• Modifying bullet and numbering formatting
• Removing bullet or numbering formatting

Borders and shading within Microsoft Word 2013

• Using borders and shading
• Adding a border
• Modifying borders
• Adding shading
• Modifying your shading
• Applying borders to selected text

Tabs

• Tab stops
• Displaying the ruler
• Setting and removing tabs using the ruler
• Viewing tab marks using the show/hide icon

Microsoft Word 2013 styles

• What are styles?
• Applying styles

Using Word 2013 design themes

• Applying a theme colour
• Apply a customised font

Microsoft Word 2013 page formatting

• What is page formatting?
• Page orientation and paper size
• Changing the page size
• Page margins
• Inserting page breaks
• Deleting page breaks
• Use page breaks rather than repeatedly pressing the return key
• Headers and footers
• Easy header and footer creation
• Page numbering
• Header and footer fields
• Editing text within a header or footer
• Cover pages
• Applying automatic hyphenation

Word 2013 views and document navigation

• Switching between Word views
• Using the zoom tool
• Navigating through documents

Tables

• Using tables
• Inserting a table
• Navigating within a table
• Selecting and editing text within a table
• Selecting cells, rows, columns or the entire table
• Inserting and deleting rows and columns
• Modifying column width or row height
• Modifying the table width
• Modifying table styles

Using illustrations within Microsoft Word

• Types of illustrations that you can insert within Word 2013
• Inserting pictures
• Inserting online pictures
• Inserting shapes
• Inserting SmartArt
• Inserting a chart
• Modifying the chart type
• Modifying the chart style
• Modifying the chart data
• Inserting a screenshot
• Selecting, resizing and deleting illustrations
• Copying or moving graphics

Finding and replacing text within a Microsoft 2013 document

• Using find and replace
• Finding text
• Replacing text

Using multiple open documents

• Multitasking with Word 2013
• Switching between open documents
• Tiling or cascading documents on your screen
• Comparing documents side by side
• Copying or moving selected items between documents

Microsoft Word 2013 mail merge

• What is mail merging?
• Starting the mail merge wizard
• Mail merge wizard – step 1 of 6 ‘select document type’
• Mail merge wizard – step 2 of 6 ‘select starting document’
• Mail merge wizard – step 3 of 6 ‘select recipients’
• Mail merge wizard – step 4 of 6 ‘write your letter’
• Mail merge wizard – step 5 of 6: previewing your letters
• Mail merge wizard – step 6 of 6 printing options
• Creating a mailing list to be used within a mail merge
• Merging a mailing list to produce labels