Course Description

Students will learn the basic skills necessary to begin using Word 2000.

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 and save a document; open an existing document; and use simple editing techniques.
• Navigate in a large document by using the mouse and keyboard.
• Edit a document by using more sophisticated techniques, including moving and copying text within a document and between documents.
• Apply and remove character and paragraph formatting.
• Use tabs and create and modify a table structure.
• Adjust margins, add and delete page breaks, and create headers and footers.
• Use Word’s proofing tools, such as the spelling checker and thesaurus, and print a document, envelope, and labels.
• Save an existing document as a Web page and preview it in a browser.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Word basics

• Introduction to Word
• Creating a new blank document and the basics of entering text
• The File, Save As command
• Opening and editing a document
• Getting help in Word

Lesson 2: Navigating in a document

• Scrolling in a document
• Searching in a document

Lesson 3: Additional editing techniques

• Using the AutoCorrect feature
• Techniques for selecting text
• Moving and copying text

Lesson 4: Character and paragraph formatting

• Basic character formatting techniques
• Additional character formatting techniques
• Paragraph formatting
• Working with indents, numbered lists, and bulleted lists
• Line breaks and line spacing

 

 

Lesson 5: Introduction to tabs and tables

• Tabs
• Creating a table
• Editing tables

Lesson 6: Controlling page appearance

• Headers and footers
• Margins
• Page breaks

Lesson 7: Tools and printing

• Using proofing tools
• Printing a document
• Envelopes and labels

Lesson 8: Creating a Web page

• Creating a Web page
  • Using Themes and exiting Word