Word 2000: Level I

Course length: 1 day (6 Hours)

Course description
Overview: Students will learn the basic skills necessary to begin using Word 2000.

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, and have a strong working knowledge of the Windows environment. No prior knowledge of Word is assumed.

What's next:  Word 2000: Level 1 is the first course in this series. Word 2000: Level 2, the next course in this series, teaches students how to use intermediate features of Word 2000. Students who want to learn advanced features can take Word 2000: 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 spelling checker and thesaurus, and print a document, envelope, and labels.

·        Save an existing document as a Web page and preview it in a browser.

Course content

Lesson 1: Word basics

Introduction to Word
Creating a new blank document and the basics of entering text
The File, Save As command
Opening and editing a document
Getting help in Word

 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
Additional 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
Editing tables

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

Lesson 8: Creating a Web page

Creating a Web page
Using Themes and exiting Word