Word 2003 training course

Working with Styles and Themes

This section of the course is all about formatting your documents - consistently, beautifully, and efficiently. Using styles provides more consistency in your documents and can save a lot of formatting time: rather than applying all the formatting changes to a paragraph or section individually, you simply apply the style you want. Or, you can apply Word themes to entire documents to create a unified look and style without having to create styles from scratch. This section covers how to:

Create, apply, and edit your own character and paragraph styles
Copy styles between documents
Use the Word 2003 style gallery to preview and select styles
Update or modify styles more quickly
Apply themes to a document

Working with Templates in Word 2003

Now that you know how to create styles, you will learn how to store them in a template. Templates save you time and effort and provide consistency across documents. In addition to styles, templates can also store text you use in many documents; for example, a letter template would already have your address in the top right corner. In fact, templates can contain pretty much anything you need to reuse in multiple documents, such as graphics, macros, headers and footers, and custom menus or toolbars. Learn how to:

Use the templates that come with Word
Create your own template to simplify your work
Make changes to a template when you need to

Working with Fields in Word 2003

Instead of manually creating a table of contents or an index from scratch, you insert a table of contents or an index field. Instead of manually typing the date or the page number, you insert a date or page number field. Fields allow you to automatically insert and update these types of elements and more. We will show you how to:

Insert different kinds of fields
View the field codes in your document
Update the field element (for example, update the table of contents when you've made changes to your content)
Edit a field (for example, to change the formatting of a field entry)
Create a table of contents
Create an index
Use more complex fields, like an IF Field in a Mail Merge document, and the FILLIN Field

Working with Macros in Microsoft Word

Once you understand Word macros, the sky's the limit. A macro is a sequence of actions and keystrokes you record and can save as a menu command or a toolbar button. With macros, you save time and reduce errors by automating repetitive tasks. In this section, you will learn how to:

Record and run macros
Make changes to macros by editing the macro code
Assign a macro to a shortcut key, menu command, or toolbar button
Delete macros

Creating Forms in Word

A form is an automated document used to collect and organize data. You can use Word to create on-line forms for the web or for use in Word. Forms can contain three main types of fields: Entry fields such as text, number, and date for respondents to enter information; check box fields for yes/no answers; and drop-down lists with predefined choices. In this section of the course, you will find out all about how to:

Design effective forms
Place form fields and modify their properties
Make your forms easier to use by adding help text
Protect the form document so that respondents can only type answers and not change the form
Use the form on-line to collect information

Working with Graphics in MS Word 2003

A picture paints a thousand words. Make your documents more understandable, more interesting, and more attractive with Word's many options for inserting and working with graphics. You can select from thousands of images in Word's clip art database or insert your own photographs or other images. In addition to graphics, this section of the course also explains the concept of linked text boxes, which can be particularly useful when you are creating newsletters or other documents with text that needs to flow from one column to another. We will cover how to:

Insert clip art images from the Clip Organizer
Insert any image from a file
Precision-control the placement of graphics next to, aligned with, or behind text
Select, resize, reposition, and make other changes to inserted graphics
Understand and use the Drawing toolbar and the Picture toolbar
Create linked text boxes
Create a watermark, for example, when you want to clearly mark a document as a draft

Working with Worksheets, Charts, & Diagrams

Word is not just for words. You can integrate any type of data and present it graphically in your document. For example, you can display Excel spreadsheet data right in your Word document and keep it updated automatically. You can also create pie, bar, or other charts to graphically display numeric data. Or you can use Venn, Pyramid, or other diagrams to present conceptual information. This course will show you how to:

Insert an Excel spreadsheet or chart in a document
Create and modify different types of charts, including bar, line, pie, area, column, and more
Create a chart from imported Excel data
Insert different types of diagrams, including org charts, Venn, Pyramid, and more

Using Collaborative Tools

In today's workplace, it is common for several team members to work together on the creation of a document. Word's collaboration features - such as tracked changes and comments - take the sharing and editing of information from paper to PC. Learn all about how to:

Set up a document for tracked changes
Track changes you or others make to the document
Review those changes and accept or reject them
Conserve disk space by saving different versions of a document within one file
Easily merge changes from different documents

Prerequisites:

A strong understanding of Microsoft Windows file management, the concepts of right-clicking and object property selection
Successful completion of Microsoft Word Intermediate class or equivalent experience

Word 2003 courses are offered at four locations::

Word 2003 Advanced Course