WordPerfect 9.0: Level 1

Course description

Overview: Students will learn the basic elements of word processing, including navigating, entering text, and basic table and tab structure.

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:

*           Identify WordPerfect 9.0 terminology, and create, save, and close a document.

*           Open and edit a document by using the mouse, keyboard, and menu choices.

*           Change the appearance of a document by adding formatting and changing fonts, and work with the Reveal Codes window.

*           Modify text in a document by replacing text, reversing the last change made to a document, and copying or moving text to a new location.

*           Change paragraphs by creating and removing paragraph indents, changing the justification of the text, and setting the line spacing for the document.

*           Set tabs by using the Ruler Bar, and create, modify, and format a table.

*           Insert and delete manual page breaks and create headers and footers in a document.

*           Check a document for potential errors by using the Spell Checker, identify alternate words by using the Thesaurus, and correct common typing errors by using QuickCorrect.

New features covered in this series

Below is a table listing the new software features that are covered in courseware:

Course content

Lesson 1: WordPerfect basics 

The WordPerfect environment

Entering text

Saving a file

Using QuickCorrect in a document

Lesson 2: Editing and navigating in a document

Opening and editing a document

Scrolling in a document

Viewing and printing a document

Lesson 3: Using fonts and working with codes

Selecting text using a QuickMenu

Changing the appearance of text

Using codes

Lesson 4: Modifying text

Finding and replacing text

Undoing and redoing changes

Moving and copying text

Lesson 5: Formatting paragraphs

Creating and removing indents

Lining up paragraphs

Setting line spacing

Lesson 6: Using tabs and tables

Setting tabs

Creating tables

Modifying tables

Formatting tables

Lesson 7: Controlling page appearance

Setting margins

Controlling page breaks

Creating headers and footers

Lesson 8: Proofing documents

Checking spelling

Using the Thesaurus

Creating QuickCorrect entries

Using QuickWords