Microsoft Word – The Next Step
Follow-on from the beginners course. Take the next step and pick up more functions and shortcuts and become a Word whiz.
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Description
Course fee
This course offers a course fee subsidy through funding from the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) for NZ citizen and permanent migrant adults, their partners on work visas or visitor visas, and refugees. To qualify, registrants should be over the age of 16 years and not currently enrolled in a secondary school. We need to collect extra information such as age, ethnicity, educational achievement and gender for statistical purposes. You must also provide evidence of NZ citizenship, residency or refugee status if requested. A condition of accepting a course fee subsidy is that you commit to at least 80% attendance of your course. The subsidised course fee is $25.
Course outline
- Columns – used in newsletters
- Agendas
- Minutes of Meetings
- Mail Merge
- Tables
- Editing and Formatting
- Watermarks
- Sort a List in Word
- Page Borders
- The Drawing Tool
- Using SmartArt
- Adding a Chart to a Word document
- Using Macros in Word
This course is taught on school personal computers.
Who should attend?
Participants must have basic knowledge of Word to attend this course. If you are new to MS Word, check our website for MS Word Beginners courses.
Testimonials
I would encourage anybody who does the beginners MS Word course to do the extension course as it follows on with a much greater amount of detail of a more technical nature. Stephen S April 2014
A good opportunity to expand your skills if you have been using Word for years but don't know all the theory behind it. Julie G April 2014
Love the course, lots of laughs, great people. Very patient and informative tutor. Easy to understand. Leanne W April 2014
Prerequisites
Basic Word skills. You will already have familiarity with most of the following:
- Formatting text
- Spellcheck
- Cut, Copy and Paste commands
- Alignment, margins, spacing and indentation
- Finding and replacing text
- Headers and Footers
- Basic Clip Art and borders
- Tabs
- Decimals tabs
- Leader Dots
- Tables – merging, splitting, inserting/deleting, sorting and using sumtotal formula
- Beginners correction signs and manuscript correction signs
- Subscript,superscript and strike through
- Page breaks
- Bullets or numbering
- Watermarks
- Layout of letters – fully blocked and open punctuation
