WordPerfect For Windows To Word For Windows: Advanced Topics

Students will learn how to translate their WordPerfect for Windows knowledge to Word for Windows.

Prerequisites

Basic understanding of Windows, intermediate knowledge of WordPerfect, and advanced understanding of word processing concepts

Target Student

Students enrolling in this course should understand word processing and Windows terminology.

What's Next

Moving from WordPerfect for Windows to Word for Windows: Basic Formatting is the first course in this series. .

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, and format tables.
Create, modify, and print AutoText entries.
Merge a document with data to create multiple variations of the document.
Create, run, and change macros.
Format text in columns and insert graphics.
Moving from WordPerfect for Windows to Word for Windows: Advanced Topics

Delivery Method

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

Benefits

Students will learn how to use some intermediate features of Word for Windows to automate their work load.

Course duration 0.5 Day(s)

Course outline

Lesson 1: Introduction to tables

Creating a table
Modifying tables
Formatting tables

Lesson 2: Using AutoText

Creating AutoText entries
Modifying and deleting AutoText entries
Printing AutoText entries

Lesson 3: Introduction to merging

Creating data
Completing main documents
Merging data with the main document
Managing merges

Lesson 4: Introduction to macros

Creating and assigning macros
Editing and testing macros
Deleting macros

Lesson 5: Newspaper columns

Formatting text into newspaper columns
Using graphics
Multiple column formats
Hyphenation techniques

Appendix A: Customizing the Word for Windows workplace

Appendix B: Mailing labels

Additional information:

This is an ExpressLine course.

Hardware Requirements/software required to run this course

You will need 12 megabytes (MB) of Random Access Memory (RAM) if you are using Word for Windows. See your reference manual for hardware considerations that apply to your specific hardware setup. In addition, you will need printers if you want to print the documents created in the course.