Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word - Level 2

Upcoming Microsoft Word Level 2 courses:

Microsoft Word - Level 2
1 day
Start date: 03 Dec 2024, 09:30am (Tuesday) In-class training
Microsoft Word - Level 2
1 day
Start date: 21 Jan 2025, 09:30am (Tuesday) ONLINE training
Microsoft Word - Level 2
1 day
Start date: 13 Feb 2025, 09:30am (Thursday) In-class training
Microsoft Word - Level 2
1 day
Start date: 14 Mar 2025, 09:30am (Friday) ONLINE training
Microsoft Word - Level 2
1 day
Start date: 10 Apr 2025, 09:30am (Thursday) In-class training
Microsoft Word - Level 2
1 day
Start date: 12 May 2025, 09:30am (Monday) ONLINE training
Microsoft Word - Level 2
1 day
Start date: 12 Nov 2025, 09:30am (Wednesday) ONLINE training

Microsoft Word Level 2

Course Aim

To introduce additional features of Word and to develop topics covered in the previous level. The course will encourage user confidence, improve knowledge and skills, and help utilise the software more effectively and efficiently. It is a hands-on course where you will learn how to create documents that contain an enhanced content to present more interesting documents. Mail merge will be used to create personalised letters, forms and labels.

Who Should Attend?

Users with a good working knowledge of Word who want to develop their knowledge further.

Prerequisites

Attended the Level 1 Word course or been using Word for quite some time.


Course Content

Revision from Level 1

  • Properties of the screen
  • Setting Word options
  • Customising the Quick Access Toolbar
  • Converting Word documents to PDF
  • Formatting concepts – Character, Paragraph, Section
  • Understanding the background structure of documents

Creating and Working with Tables

  • Creating a table
  • Moving within a table
  • Selecting text in a table
  • Inserting and deleting rows and columns
  • Displaying and hiding table gridlines
  • Merging and splitting cells
  • Changing the row height and column width
  • Distributing rows and columns evenly
  • Modifying vertical text alignment
  • Changing the direction of text
  • Centring a table horizontally

Enhancing the Appearance of a document using Paragraph Formatting

  • Enhancing text using borders and shading
  • Applying bullets and numbers to lists
  • Creating multi-level lists
  • Clearing formats

Enhancing the Appearance of a document using Section Formatting

  • Creating headers and footers
  • Adding the date or time as a header or footer
  • Inserting the filename as a header or footer
  • Inserting page numbering
  • Changing the page numbering format

Working with Mail Merge

  • Creating and adding fields to a main document
  • Creating and opening data sources
  • Adding information to a data source
  • Checking the mail merge before printing
  • Merging a data source with a main document
  • Selecting specific records to merge
  • Creating mailing labels

Inserting Additional Characters

  • Inserting symbols and special characters
  • Inserting the date or time as a field
  • Locking and unlocking a date or time field

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