Word 97: Level 2

Course length: 1 day

Course description

Overview: Students will learn intermediate features of Word 97. This course meets the Microsoft Proficiency Guidelines for Word at the Expert level.

Prerequisites: To ensure your success, you must first have completed the Software Training course, Word 97: Level 1; and have a thorough working knowledge of the Windows environment.

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

Benefits: Students will learn about tables, styles, templates, and macros; how to merge documents; multiple-columnar formats; and Internet basics.

Target student: Students enrolling in this course should understand the basic concepts involved in working with a personal computer (PC). For example, students should be familiar with such terms as computer memory, data files, and program files. Students should also be familiar with the components that make up the personal computer, such as input, output, and storage devices. Completion of the Logical Operations Word 97: Level 1 class is assumed.

What's next: Word 97: Level 1 is the first course in this series. The Software Training course, Word 97: Advanced, the next class in this series, teaches students how to create forms, use drawings, create reports, control document sections, use external data, and share documents. Students will also learn advanced techniques to use with styles, templates, and workplace customization.

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:

• Create, modify, perform calculations in, and import data in tables
• Use styles to affect the appearance of paragraphs and create outlines
• Create and use templates, and create a fax template
• Merge a document with data to create multiple variations of a document
• Create, run, and edit macros
• Format text in columns with graphics; use section breaks to format a document
• Discuss Internet features, create and edit an HTML document, and view the document source code

Course content

Lesson 1: Tables

Drawing a table

Performing calculations in tables

Creating charts

Importing worksheets and data

Lesson 2: Introduction to styles

Applying styles

Creating styles

Redefining and deleting styles

Using styles to create an outline

Lesson 3: Introduction to templates

Using templates

Using a fax template

Examining the Normal template

Lesson 4: Introduction to merging

Creating data

Completing main documents

Merging data with the main document

Managing merges

Creating catalogs

Lesson 5: Introduction to macros

Creating and assigning macros

Editing and testing macros

Deleting a macro

Lesson 6: Newspaper columns

Formatting text into newspaper columns

Using graphics

Sections

Sorting

Lesson 7: Internet basics

What is the Internet?

Understanding the World Wide Web

Word Internet features

Appendix A: Customizing the workspace