MS Word (all versions)
Below is an outline of my MS Word curriculum. You can start your studies with me at any point in it and continue forward as far as you wish; or, you can study outline topics out of order; or, you can elect to study other topics not listed here; or, you can pursue any curriculum we agree upon.
1. Definitions of terms:
File, document, Document1, program, window, document window, mouse pointer, cursor, insertion point, select, double-click, right-click, drag, parent window, child window, dialog box, text window, drop-down menu, button, maximize, minimize, restore, open, close, save, delete.
2. Elements of the Word program window:
The Document screen; the Title, Menu, and Status bars; the Standard and Formatting Tool bars; the Maximize, Restore, Minimize, and Close buttons; the Ruler bar; the Scroll bars; the Next/Previous Page buttons.
3. Word Basics:
The 6 Word "Views"; Zooming; the Mouse Pointer vs. the Insertion Point (cursor); the Tools/Options dialog; the Show/Hide Paragraph Mark button; Word Help; the "Office Assistant"; window display states; "parent" and "child" windows; moving and sizing windows; default typeface and point size.
4. the Word Keyboard:
Enter, Delete, and Backspace keys exercise; the Cursor, Home, and End keys; using the Ctrl, Alt, and Shift keys; Shift vs. Caps Lock; the Function keys and the Function key template; the Insert; Page Up and Page Down keys; keyboard equivalents to the mouse.
5. the Undo and Redo commands:
6. File Management:
to Save, Open, Close, and Delete files; Save vs. Save AS; to have more than one file open at the same time.
7. Printing:
8. Selecting text:
double-clicking; the Selection Bar; selecting using the Shift, Ctrl, or Alt key with the mouse; selecting a word, a phrase, a line, multiple lines, a sentence, a paragraph, multiple paragraphs, a page, multiple pages, the entire document.
9. Character Formatting:
Bold, Italic, Underline; Typeface; Point size; other character formatting effects.
10. to Move and Copy text with the mouse or clipboard.
11. Paragraph Formatting:
The paragraph mark; the line-break; Justification (Left, Right, Center and Full); Indents (whole paragraph, first and subsequent lines); Line spacing; (vertical) spacing before and after paragraphs; Bullets and Numbering; Boxes; controlling Line and Page breaks; tabs, tab leaders and the ruler bar.
12. Sections and section breaks: the smallest part of a document with its own page formatting.
13. Page/Document Formatting:
Margins, Headers and Footers, page and line numbering, footnotes and endnotes.
14. to Insert Clip Art and Symbols:
15. to Insert Pictures and Files:
16. the Drawing toolbar; inserting shapes and lines:
17. Find and Replace text:
18. Faxing:
19. Columns:
20. Tables:
21. Text boxes:
22. Merging:
A 3-step process that creates a Main Form (the same from document to document) with Merge Fields, a Data Source (contains data that varies from document to document), and then merges the two.
23. Templates:
blueprints or stencils for text, graphics and formatting upon which new documents can be based. By default, all new docs in Word are based on the Normal template.
24. Styles:
25. Tables of Contents:
26. the Master Document:
27. Graphics and Text Art:
28. Spell check; Grammar check; Thesaurus; editing Dictionaries:
29. Hyphenation:
30. Displaying and editing the MS Office Shortcut Bar:
31. Creating a Desktop Shortcut to Word:
32. What to do when Word crashes (is hung up):
33. Automatic Save and Backup of files:
34. Word Components (Installing or deleting):
35. EXCEL Spreadsheets within Word:
Inserting new blank worksheets and Importing previously created ones.
36. Creating/Importing Charts/graphs:
37. Comparing Documents (Revisions):
the New Window command.
38. OLE (Object Linking and Embedding):
39. Outlines:
40. Macros:
creating, saving, and editing Macros; assigning Macros to the keyboard or to the toolbar; Visual Basic commands
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