Getting Started With Word 2000

Course length: 1/2 Day

Course Description

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

Prerequisites:   To ensure students' success with this course, we recommend that they first take the following Element K Content courses or have equivalent knowledge:

• Windows 95 : Introduction

• Windows 98 : Introduction

• Windows NT 4.0 : Introduction  

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:

• Identify the components of the application window and adjust some default settings; create, save, and close a document; open an existing document; and use simple editing techniques.
• Navigate in a large document by using the mouse and keyboard and locate specific places and words in a document by using the Find, Replace, and Go To commands.
• 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 a table.
• Adjust margins, and add and delete page breaks.
• Use Word's spelling checker, and print a document.
• Save an existing document as a Web page, and preview it in a browser.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Word basics

Topic 1A: Introduction to Word

Topic 1B: Creating a new blank document and basics of entering text

Topic 1C: The Save As command

Topic 1D: Opening and editing a document

Lesson 2: Navigating in a document

Topic 2A: Scrolling within a document

Topic 2B: Searching a document

Lesson 3: Additional editing techniques

Topic 3A: Techniques for selecting text

Topic 3B: Moving text

Lesson 4: Character and paragraph formatting

Topic 4A: Basic character formatting techniques

Topic 4B: Additional character formatting techniques

Topic 4C: Paragraph formatting

Lesson 5: Introduction to tabs and tables

Topic 5A: Working with tabs

Topic 5B: Creating a table

Lesson 6: Controlling page appearance

Topic 6A: Modify margins

Topic 6B: Page breaks

Lesson 7: Tools and printing

Topic 7A: Using proofing tools

Topic 7B: Printing a document

Lesson 8: Creating a Web page

Topic 8A: Creating a Web page