Course curriculum

  • 1

    Getting started with Word

    • Welcome to Maximity's online training

    • Introducing your trainer

    • Word Level 1 Workbook

    • Create, save and open a word document

    • Exercise : Create new word document

    • The ribbon bar and quick access toolbar in Microsoft 365

    • Using the ribbons in Word
  • 2

    Styles - the corner stone for easy word formatting

    • Introduction to styles, formatting text and table of contents

    • Exercise : Enter text, apply styles and insert table of contents

    • Quick tip : Insert latin text into your document

    • Exercise : Insert random text

    • Themes and styles

    • Exercise : Change the theme for your document

    • Fonts and Paragraphs

    • Exercise : Change the font for the first 3 heading styles

    • Watermark, page colour and borders

    • Exercise : Insert a confidential watermark on a light blue page

    • Tabs / bullets and ruler

    • Exercise : Tabs and bullets
  • 3

    Essential functions to layout your document

    • Show / hide paragraph marks in your document

    • Insert vs overtype

    • Page, section breaks and columns

    • Exercise : Page, section breaks and columns

    • Copy, Cut, Paste, Find and Replace

    • View options
  • 4

    Inserting "things" into your document

    • Insert Tables

    • Exercise : Create this table in your document

    • Inserting Images

    • Exercise : Insert an image into your document

    • Insert spreadsheets / powerpoint

    • Exercise : Insert a linked spreadsheet and ppt presentation into your document
  • 5

    Support functions and printing

    • Editor, spell checking, thesaurus and word / letter count

    • Comments

    • Exercise : Add comments

    • Margins, page setup and printing