Word 97: Level 1

Course description

Overview: Students will learn the basic skills necessary to begin using Word 97.

Prerequisites: Windows 95: Introduction 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:

*     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 speller and thesaurus.

Course content

Lesson 1: Word basics

Introduction to Word

The basics of entering text

The File, Save As command

Opening and editing a document

Saving a document

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

Advanced 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

Enhancing a table

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