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Word - Beginning
Last revised: August 17, 2010

Syllabus

Instructor's Notes  
Tutorial 1 - Creating a Document Instructor's notes for Tutorial 1
Tutorial 2 - Editing and Formatting Instructor's notes for Tutorial 2
Tutorial 3 - Multi-Page Document Instructor's notes for Tutorial 3
Tutorial 4 - Desktop Publishing Instructor's notes for Tutorial 4

Recorded Lectures
Tutorial 1 - Editing Documents
  Part 1  Tour of the MS Word window: Office Button, Status Bar, Zoom Control, Ruler
  Part 2  Creating a document; moving the insertion point; typing text; showing hidden characters; selecting text
  Part 3  Spell & Grammar checking, line spacing, highlighting with keyboard, printing, getting Help
Tutorial 2 - Formatting Documents
  Part 1  Text formatting, paragraph formatting, Format Painter
  Part 2  Find, Replace, Page Margins, Paragraph Margins
Tutorial 3 - Multipage Documents
  Part 1  QuickStyles, manual page breaks, creating tables, drawing tables, adding/deleting rows and columns, adjusting column sizes, size to fit, selecting table parts, formatting cells
  Part 2  Sorting tables, moving columns and rows, merging and splitting cells, calculating in a table, formatting calculation results, converting text to a table, converting a table to text, setting custom tabs, moving tabs, deleting tabs, using leader characters (dots)
  Part 3  Tabs review, footnotes and endnotes, section breaks, vertically centering text, headers and footers
  Part 4  Cover pages, SmartArt
Tutorial 4 - Desktop Publishing
  Part 1  WordArt, columns, ClipArt
  Part 2  Pictures, Page Borders, Textboxes, Drop Caps, Special Symbols, Hyperlinks

Assignments  
Tutorial 1 Assignment Assignment for Tutorial 1
Tutorial 2 Assignment Assignment for Tutorial 2
Tutorial 3 Assignment Assignment for Tutorial 3
Tutorial 4 Assignment Assignment for Tutorial 4

Handouts & Data Files  
Competency Checklist List of competencies (skills) gained in this course, presented by tutorials
Student Files

How to Download Student Files
Data files for all four tutorials, stored in a self-extracting zip file. Copy this file to your computer. Then, double-click the file and tell the extractor where to store your files.

 
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