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4008-Building Better Microsoft Office Word 2003 Documents in Less Time

Duration: 2 days

Prerequisites:

• Word experience, including entering text and basic text formatting; saving, accessing, and printing documents; familiarity with the most common document views including Normal view, Print Layout, and Print Preview.
• Knowledge on how to navigate in a document and at least some experience with basic tools such as Find and Replace, Comments, Bookmarks, Track Changes, AutoText, and AutoCorrect options; be aware of the Options dialog box on the Tools menu.
• Additional experience in Word, such as:
• formatting paragraph styles and applying them in a document.
• creating tables using Word, and some familiarity with the basics of formatting a table's structure and text within a table.
• using graphics in a Word document, and some familiarity copying content between Word and other Office applications-such as pasting charts or tables into Word from Excel or diagrams into Word from PowerPoint.

Introducton: Over the past few years, the use of Microsoft Office Word to create long and complex documents has grown dramatically. Today's individual worker uses Word to create every type of business document from the basic interoffice memo to complex reports and presentations. This course offers an intermediate\advanced introduction to the key concepts and core elements of working effectively with complex Word documents. The primary goal of this course is to introduce students to the best practices that will enable them to spend less time working on their Word documents and achieve better results in the process.

At Course Completion:

• Create or edit complex documents more effectively, in less time.
• Create documents that are more professional-looking as well as being easier to manage for long-term collaboration and editing needs.
• Understand the underlying concepts of Word, in order to take on unfamiliar Word tasks more confidently and more efficiently.

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Core Concepts of Microsoft Word

• Walkthrough 1: Introducing the Core Concepts of Microsoft Word
• Walkthrough 2: The Three Levels of Formatting
• Walkthrough 3: The Third Level-Understanding Sections
• Introduction to the Key Components of Complex Word Documents
• After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Understand the approach of this course.
  • Understand how content is organized in a Word document.
  • Understand how to identify the best practices for accomplishing tasks in Word.

Chapter 2: Using Styles Effectively

• Walkthrough 1: The Benefits of Word Styles
• Walkthrough 2: Create and Manage Paragraph Styles
• Exercise: Building a Better Document-Using Styles Effectively
• Best Practices for Working with Styles
• After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Understand the importance of styles to Word documents.
  • Create and use paragraph styles effectively.

Chapter 3: Simplifying Your Document with Tables

• Walkthrough 1: Using Tables to Simplify Your Documents
• Walkthrough 2: Timesaving Techniques for Creating and Managing Tables
• Exercise: Building a Better Document-Mastering Complex Layouts
• Best Practices for Working with Tables
• After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Understand the many uses of tables.
  • Create and manage tables more easily and more effectively

Chapter 4: Managing Graphics Successfully

• Walkthrough 1: Understand Picture and Object Types in Word
• Walkthrough 2: Placing Graphics Securely in Word
• Exercise: Building a Better Document-Managing Graphics with Ease
• Best Practices for Working with Graphics
• After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Understand the differences in picture and object types and how they affect documents.
  • Understand the benefits of using other Office programs to create some types of document graphics.
  • Place and manage graphics in Word more easily and with better results.

Chapter 5: Maximizing the Benefits of Fields

• Walkthrough 1: Simplify Your Work with Fields
• Walkthrough 2: Create and Edit Field Codes
• Exercise: Building a Better Document-Adding a Table of Contents
• After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Understand what fields are and how they can be used.
  • Create and edit fields directly on screen, as both a timesaver and for added formatting flexibility.
  • Access additional resources for help in creating and managing Word documents as well as to learn more about document production using Word and other Microsoft Office programs.