Word 97: Advanced (Windows 95)

Course description

Overview: Students will learn advanced skills for creating and using advanced styles, templates, and forms; working with graphics in documents; working with large documents; determining document layout; and sharing documents online. This course meets the Microsoft Proficiency Guidelines for Word at the Expert level.

Prerequisites: Windows 95: Introduction, Word 97: Level 1 and Word 97: Level 2 or equivalent knowledge.

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 advanced techniques for working with styles

*     Create and use templates and forms

*     Enhance documents by drawing in a document and using clip art and WordArt

*     Create a master document, a table of contents, and an index

*     Enhance document layout

*     Use highlights, comments, and revision marks to edit and share documents online

Course content

Lesson 1: Advanced styles

Using the AutoFormat feature

Linking styles

Managing styles

Lesson 2: Creating templates and forms

Examining templates

Creating and enhancing a template

Creating a form

Lesson 3: Using graphic effects

Drawing in a document

Working with clip art and graphic effects

Using WordArt

Lesson 4: Working with large documents

Creating a master document

Generating an index

Preparing to print

Lesson 5: Document layout

Using sections to control layout

Formatting a document for binding

Creating footnotes and endnotes

Using bookmarks

Creating cross-references

Lesson 6: Sharing documents

Routing a document

Using highlights and comments

Creating, comparing, and merging multiple versions of documents