Word 97: Level 1

Course length: 1 day

Course description

Overview: Students will learn the basic skills necessary to begin using Word 97. This course meets the Microsoft Proficiency Guidelines for Word at the Expert level.

Prerequisites: To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the Software Training course, Windows 98: Introduction, or have extensive equivalent knowledge.

Delivery method: Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Benefits: Students will learn how to create and edit documents and use character and paragraph formatting.

Target student: Students enrolling in this course should understand the basic concepts involved in working with a personal computer (PC). No prior knowledge of Word is assumed.

What's next: Word 97: Level 1 is the first course in this series. The Software Training course, Word 97: Level 2, the next class in this series, teaches students how to use intermediate features of Word 97. Students who want to learn advanced features can take the Software Training course Word 97: Advanced.

Performance-based objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Create and save a document; open an existing document; and use simple editing techniques.
• Navigate in a large document by using the mouse and keyboard.
• Edit a document by using more sophisticated techniques, including moving and copying text within a document and between documents.
• Apply and remove character and paragraph formatting.
• Use tabs and create and modify a table structure.
• Adjust margins, add and delete page breaks, and create headers and footers.
• Use Word’s proofing tools such as the speller and thesaurus.

Course content

Lesson 1: Word basics

Introduction to Word

The basics of entering text

The File, Save As command

Opening and editing a document

Saving a document

Lesson 2: Navigating in a document

Scrolling in a document

Searching in a document

Lesson 3: Additional editing techniques

Using the AutoCorrect feature

Techniques for selecting text

Moving and copying text

Lesson 4: Character and paragraph formatting

Basic character formatting techniques

Advanced character formatting techniques

Paragraph formatting

Working with indents, numbered lists, and bulleted lists

Line breaks and line spacing

Lesson 5: Introduction to tabs and tables

Tabs

Creating a table

Enhancing a table

Lesson 6: Controlling page appearance

Headers and footers

Margins

Page breaks

Lesson 7: Tools and printing

Using proofing tools

Printing a document

Envelopes and labels