Word 97: Advanced

Course length: 1 day

Course description

Overview: Students will learn advanced skills for creating and using advanced styles, templates, and forms; working with graphics in documents; working with large documents; determining document layout; and sharing documents online. This course meets the Microsoft Proficiency Guidelines for Word at the Expert level.

Prerequisites: To ensure your success, you first must complete the Software Training courses, Word 97: Level 1; and Word 97: Level 2, or have extensive equivalent knowledge, and have a good working knowledge of the Windows 98 environment.

Delivery method: Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Benefits: Students will learn how to work more efficiently and to enhance their existing documents.

Target student: Students enrolling in this course should understand the basics of Windows 98. They should already have experience working with Word 97. Specifically, students should know how to create styles, templates, and macros.

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:

• Use advanced techniques for working with styles
• Create and use templates and forms
• Enhance documents by drawing in a document and using clip art and WordArt
• Create a master document, a table of contents, and an index
• Enhance document layout
• Use highlights, comments, and revision marks to edit and share documents online

Course content

Lesson 1: Advanced styles

Using the AutoFormat feature

Linking styles

Managing styles

Lesson 2: Creating templates and forms

Examining templates

Creating and enhancing a template

Creating a form

Lesson 3: Using graphic effects

Drawing in a document

Working with clip art and graphic effects

Using WordArt

Lesson 4: Working with large documents

Creating a master document

Generating an index

Preparing to print

Lesson 5: Document layout

Using sections to control layout

Formatting a document for binding

Creating footnotes and endnotes

Using bookmarks

Creating cross-references

Lesson 6: Sharing documents

Routing a document

Using highlights and comments

Creating, comparing, and merging multiple versions of documents