Word courses

Word Essential skills

Prerequisite: Good working knowledge of Windows is essential.

Duration: 12 hours

Cost:

• UCT staff: R600
• External: R1200      

Cost:

• UCT staff: R600
• External: R1200      

Cost:

• UCT staff: R600
• External: R1200      

Lesson 1: Understanding Word

• Work with tools (Ribbon, Quick Access Toolbar, etc.)

• Create a document 

• Save a document 

• Work with templates 

• Preview and print a document 

Lesson 2: Basic editing

• Change and organise document views 

• Navigate and search a document 

• Cut, copy, and paste text 

• Change information in properties inspecting documents 

Lesson 3: Character Formatting

• Format characters manually 

• Use format painter 

• Format text with styles 

• Insert text, symbols and special characters

• Remove text formatting 

Lesson 4: Paragraph formatting

• Set line spacing in text and between paragraphs 

• Create and format a bulleted list 

• Create and format a numbered list 

Lesson 5: Create tables

• Create a table 

• Format a table 

• Manage tables  

Lesson 6: Proof a document

• Check spelling and grammar

• Use the Thesaurus 

Lesson 7: Print a Word document

• Preview and print a document

Lesson 1: Manage lists

• Sort lists
• Create and format a bulleted list
• Create, format and renumber lists

Lesson 2: Manage text flow

• Set page layout
• Work with breaks
• Set up columns

Lesson 3: Create tables

• Format a table
• Manage a table (perform calculations, sort data)
• Create charts

Lesson 4: Work with themes, style sets, backgrounds, quick parts, and text boxes 

• Format, create, and customise a theme 

• Format a document using style sets 

• Format a document’s background 

• Apply and manipulate text boxes 

• Insert a special character 

Lesson 5: Use illustrations and graphs

• Insert, format and modify pictures in a document
• Insert and format icons, shapes and SmartArt

Lesson 6: Use mail merge

• Use the mail merge feature
• Create a data source using Word and Excel preview
• Print a document

Lesson 1 :Collaborate on documents

• Use Word online
• Save Word documents to OneDrive
• Review a document
• Use track changes and comments

Lesson 2: Manage document versions

• Compare document versions
• Revert back to earlier document versions

Lesson 3: Work with references

• Insert bookmarks
• Insert footnotes and endnotes
• Add hyperlinks
• Add citations and a bibliography

Lesson 4: Format a research paper/simplify long documents

• Create citations
• Add citations
• Insert footnotes and endnotes
• Create a table of contents
• Insert a cover page
• Create and modify headers/footers
• Create bookmarks

Lesson 5: Use macros

• Create a macro
• Automate tasks using macros

Work with long documents

Create a table of contents and index

Mail merge workshop

Work with templates and styles

Duration: 3 hours 

• Control formatting in a collaborative document

• Manage long documents using bookmarks

• Efficiently navigate long documents

• Include sections and page breaks

  • Troubleshoot frequent problems

• Insert a table of contents

• Track and accept changes

• Advanced formatting

• Format multi-column documents

• Use tabs and tables for layout

• Organise documents

• Create a table of contents

• Create an index

• Generate a table of figures

• Create custom documents with mail merge

• Use data sources and set up main document

• Edit main document

• Set up labels and envelopes

• Print mail merge documents

• Use Word templates, styles and page breaks

• Create and use templates

• Create, apply and modify templates

• Insert and troubleshoot page breaks