Word 2000: Level 2

Course length: 1 day (6 Hours)

Course description

Overview: Students will build upon the skills they learned in Word 2000: Level 1; to learn the intermediate features of Word 2000.

Prerequisites: To ensure your success, you must have completed the Software Training course, Word 2000: 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 how to create and control section breaks, tables, merges, styles, templates, macros, and basic Web pages.

Target student: Students enrolling in this course should understand the basic concepts involved in working with a personal computer. For example, students should be familiar with such terms as computer memory, data files, and program files. Students should also be acquainted with the hardware components that make up a PC—input, output, and storage devices. Completion of the Software Training course, Word 2000: Level 1 class is assumed.

What's next: Word 2000: Level 2 is the second course in this series. Students who would like to expand their knowledge of styles, learn how to create forms, use graphical effects, and manage and share large documents can take Word 2000: Level 3.

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 section breaks to format a document and format text in columns.

· Create, modify, and use tables as page-layout elements and sort table data.

· Merge a document with data to make variations of one document.

· Create, modify, and use styles to affect the appearance of text.

· Create and use templates, including the fax template.

· Create, modify, and use macros.

· Discuss Internet and Web features, create and edit a Web document, and preview a Web document in a browser.

Course content

Lesson 1: Sections

Creating sections

Newspaper columns

Using sections to change page orientation

Lesson 2: Tables

Creating and formatting tables

Working with table data

Drawing a table

Lesson 3: Merging

Creating a mail merge document

Completing a main document

Performing the merge

Sorting and filtering merges

Merging addresses into mailing labels

Lesson 4: Styles and AutoText

Applying and displaying styles

Creating custom styles

Modifying and deleting styles

Using styles to create an outline

AutoText entries

Lesson 5: Introduction to templates

Templates at a glance

Using templates

Creating a fax cover sheet by using a template

Lesson 6: Introduction to macros

Running and recording macros

Editing and testing a macro

Custom toolbars

Lesson 7: The Internet and the Web

About the Internet and the Web

Creating a new Web page

Adding hyperlinks to a Web page

Adding graphical elements to a Web page