Microsoft Word – Beginners
Learn or update your computer skills to produce attractive, structured letters and forms. Become adept at copying, cutting, pasting, editing and formatting text, tabs and leaders, tables and columns. Additional classes will be added when there is demand. Course fee $25 or $132.
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Description
Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) course fee subsidy
This course offers a course fee subsidy through funding from the TEC for:
- NZ citizens;
- Those who hold a residency-class visa;
- Individuals granted refugee status;
- In some cases spouses of NZ citizens and permanent migrants may also qualify - please contact the office to enquire.
Conditions:
- Registrants must be aged 16 years or older.
- Registrants must not be currently enrolled at a secondary school.
- You should attend at least 80% of your classes to qualify for a fee subsidy.
- We need to collect extra information such as age, ethnicity, educational achievement and gender for statistical purposes.
- You must provide evidence of NZ citizenship, residency or refugee status.
If you are unable to meet these conditions, please contact the office to discuss your situation. The subsidised course fee is $35.
About the course
Particularly suitable for people who want to rejoin the work force and need to update their word processing skills. In six classes the following topics are covered:-
- Keying in text and editing using different formats, eg bold, italics, underscore etc.
- Spellcheck
- Cut, Copy and Paste
- Alignment – left align, centre, right align and justify
- Single and double line spacing
- Setting left and right margins
- Indenting paragraphs of text
- Finding and replacing text
- Headers and Footers
- Intro to Clip Art and borders etc – designing menus
- Tabs
- Decimals tabs
- Leader Dots
- Tables – merging, splitting cells, inserting columns/rows and deleting, moving columns within a table and also sorting of table
- Using a formula in tables to add up a column
- Beginners correction signs and manuscript correction signs
- Subscript and superscript characters
- Strike through
- Inserting page breaks into a document
- Adding bullets or numbering etc
- Watermarks
- Layout of letters – fully blocked and open punctuation
In the shorter one-day course, the following topics are covered:
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- Creating Folders to save documents in to
- Keying in text and editing using different formats, eg bold, italics, underscore etc.
- Spellcheck
- Cut, Copy and Paste
- Alignment – left align, centre, right align and justify
- Single and double line spacing
- Setting left and right margins
- Finding and replacing text
- Headers and Footers
- Insertion of online pictures and borders – designing menus and advertisements
- Leader Dots
- Tables – merging, splitting cells, inserting columns/rows and deleting, moving columns within a table and also sorting of table
- Using a formula in tables to add up a column
- Inserting page breaks into a document
- Adding bullets or numbering etc
- Watermarks
- Layout of business letters – fully blocked and open punctuation
This course is taught on personal computers at Selwyn College. Students should have basic familiarity with a computer and windows to attend this course. Contact us if you would like information or advice about other computing courses.
Testimonials
Hi lovely people. This certificate is very much appreciated. I did try hard in all my IT classes and thoroughly enjoyed myself A big thank you to my teachers who are saints in patience. Sincerely PB 2024
