Price: Quote
Duration: 5 hours
Delegates: 4-16 delegates
Available: Online or South Wales & West
Welcome to our Microsoft Word for Beginners course. Microsoft Word is a word processing software that is widely used in businesses, schools, and homes around the world. Whether you are writing a letter, creating a report, or designing a flyer, Microsoft Word can help you produce professional-looking documents quickly and easily. On this one-day course, we will cover the basics of Microsoft Word, including creating and formatting documents, inserting images and tables, and using styles and templates. You will learn how to use the software to create documents that are well-organised, visually appealing, and easy to read.
By the end of the course, you will have a solid understanding of how to use Microsoft Word to create professional-looking documents. You will have had the opportunity to practice these skills through hands-on exercises and projects. Whether you are a business professional, student, or anyone who needs to create and manage documents, this course will provide you with the skills you need to use Microsoft Word effectively. Join us for this practical and informative one-day course and take the first step towards becoming a proficient user of Microsoft Word.
The skills to navigate the Word environment utilising the ribbon and new keyboard shortcuts
The knowledge of how to create professional looking documents with ease and speed
The understanding of how to fully utilise the mail merge features
Explore the various user interface elements
Use Word galleries to apply design features
Customise the Word environment
Apply quick styles to format documents
Adding and removing page breaks
Quickly apply document themes to ensure a professional and consistent document design
Use SmartArt for flow charts, illustrations and much more
Utilising new template features
Add tables to a document
Modifying table structures
Formatting tables
Set-Up header and footers
Saving & opening files
Proofing the document with spelling and grammar
Utilising the thesaurus
Setting up a mail merge
Merging to lists
Creating a selective mail merge
This course is suitable for complete beginners with little or no experience of Microsoft Word. It is suitable for people who have some experience but no formal training who would like to learn best practice of learning Microsoft Word.
Price: Quote
Duration: 5 hours
Delegates: 4-16 delegates
Available: Online or South Wales & West
On this one-day course, we will cover intermediate-level topics in Microsoft Word, including working with styles, creating and modifying templates, using advanced formatting tools, and working with large documents. You will learn how to use the software to create documents that are well-organised, visually appealing, and easy to read.
By the end of the course, you will have a solid understanding of how to use Microsoft Word to create more advanced documents with efficiency and effectiveness. You will have had the opportunity to practice these skills through hands-on exercises and projects. Whether you are a business professional, writer, or anyone who needs to create and manage complex documents, this course will provide you with the skills you need to use Microsoft Word effectively at an intermediate level. Join us for this practical and informative one-day course and take your Microsoft Word skills to the next level.
How to add fields to documents so you can edit and update key information
Discover how to create macros to automate manual processes
Learn the ability to protect confidential documents with security
Format longer documents consistently and easily using style sheets
Creating an automatic table of contents
Using document styles to automate formatting
Creating new styles
Advanced editing of style sheets
Managing large documents with page and section breaks
Handling different page layouts in the same document
Starting and stopping headers and footers
Controlling page numbering
Newspaper columns and newsletters
Inserting graphics & controlling positions on page
Inserting charts and managing surrounding text
Adding captions and cross references
Working with multiple versions of a document
Revision markers
This course is suitable for anyone who is responsible for producing long or complex documents. It will be very useful for anyone who produces reports, manuals or client-facing documents as well as those that wish to use some timesaving functions within Microsoft Word.
Our training approach focuses on small groups led by friendly trainers, ensuring a non-judgemental and comfortable environment where everyone feels supported.
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"I didn't realise how much you can do on Word before attending this course. Very informative session."
NHS
"Great session with lots of practical examples for me to practice, definitely will be applying a lot of what I learned today."
Gwent Police
"I learnt lots of useful things I can use in work and also developed my confidence with computers."
Welsh Government
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