LearnPro: Applying Word 97

Course description

Overview: Students will learn how to create documents, newsletters, and mail merges.

Prerequisites: Students should understand the basics of Microsoft Windows 95 and Word. To acquire the Word basics, students can complete the LearnPro Word 97 QuickSkill CBT tutorials either before attending class or during the first half hour of class.

Skills List

Students are introduced to the following essential and extended skills in this course:

Essential Skills

Add borders to paragraphs and tables

Apply character formats

Change fonts

Change line spacing

Change margins

Change page setup options

Change the page orientation

Change the paragraph alignment

Change the view

Create a new document

Create and modify a table

Create bulleted lists

Create headers and footers

Cut, copy, and paste text

Define a paragraph

Define the Clipboard

Define word wrap

Delete text

Display non-printing characters

Edit text

Enter text

Find text

Format a table

Go to a specific page

Insert a file

Insert a line break

Insert a page break

Insert text

Insert the current date

Insert the date as a field

Navigate through a document

Open and close a file

Print a document

Print preview a document

Remove character formats

Repeat character formats

Replace text

Save (update) a file

Save a file with a new name

Scroll through a document

Search for and replace text

Select text

Set and modify tabs

Spell check documents

Use Drag-and-Drop to copy or move text

Use Microsoft Help

Use the Format Painter to copy formats

Use the Select Browse Object button

Use Undo and Redo

Extended Skills

Adjust the spacing between columns

Adjust the width of columns

Change the default settings by modifying the Normal template

Create a data source

Create a main document

Create a template based on an existing document

Create a template from scratch

Create AutoCorrect entries

Create AutoText entries

Create mailing labels

Create multi-column documents

Define a data source

Define a main document

Define a record

Edit a template

Insert a column break

Insert a graphic from a file

Insert clip art

Insert fields in a main document

Merge a main document with a data source

Resize graphics

Use a template to create a document

Use an Excel file as a data source

Use AutoComplete

Use AutoCorrect

Use the Mail Merge Helper

Use Wizards

Use Zoom control

Course content

Case 1: Initial Exploration

Group Session

Case 2: Standard Letter

Case 3: Preparing a Letter for Printing

Case 4: Using Cut, Copy, and Paste

Case 5: Editing and Formatting a Document

Case 6: Tables and Tabs

Case 7: Marketing Letter

Case 8: Setting up a Memo

Case 9: Designing a Resume

Case 10: Creating Templates

Case 11: Creating a Newsletter

Case 12: Merging Files

Case 13: Form Letters

Case 14: Mailing Labels