Office Training - Word - Letters, Contracts, Templates

As with Excel training courses, Word training courses tend to be split into 3 groups - basic, intermediate and advanced. The latter being tailored towards office professionals who want to take their skills to the highest level. Basic Word training is ideal for students who may not have any previous knowledge of an office environment but do have basic computing skills such as knowing how to use a mouse, navigating windows and surfing the web.

Let's take a look at what each level focuses on..

A basic training course is ideal for new computer users who want to grasp the essential skills for everyday office work. These new skills are ideal for people wanting to create Word documents, format text, add tables, graphics and modify document appearance ready for printing. Most of these courses will require that you have experience of saving and opening files, navigating Windows folders and opening and closing programs.

A basic Word course will usually cover the following topics:

Exploring the Word environment including menus, buttons and layouts

Creating new documents and opening previous documents

Formatting text, paragraphs and layout

Adding tables and graphics to documents

Using headings and styles to improve the appearance of documents

After mastering the basic skills of Word, students can take an intermediate or advanced course that aims to improve proficiency. Intermediate and advanced courses teach you to improve your documents by using elements such as customized lists, tables, charts and graphics.

An intermediate or advanced Word course will tend to focus on the following skill sets:

Managing lists

Creating tables and charts

Using custom formatting for a professional look

Modifying pictures and graphics

Adding headers, footers and indexes to documents

Automating common tasks

Using mail merge techniques