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Highlights of the
- Create, edit, navigate, print and share documents using powerful new tools.
- Collaborate with others using Comments, Document Compare, and other collaboration options.
- Style your documents with attractive themes, graphics, and formatting.
- Customize Word 2008 to best fit your personal work flow.
Course Summary
This Microsoft Office Word course teaches you how to effectively use the Word 2008 for Mac through comprehensive lessons and engaging quizzes, allowing the user to choose which lesson to learn. New users will be guided through the fundamentals of the Word 2008 for Mac interface, while experienced users will be brought up to speed on the new navigation and functionality of this 2008 edition.
Course Contents
Microsoft Word for Mac 2008: Beginner
- Getting Started
- Launching Word 2008
- Touring the Word Window
- About XML
- Opening & Closing Files
- Getting Help
- Creating New Documents
- Starting a New Document
- Editing Text
- Preview & Print a Document
- Editing Existing Documents
- Opening a Document
- Navigating a Document
- Working with Multiple Page Documents
- Essential Word 2008 Skills
- Selecting Text
- Moving & Copying Text
- Undo, Redo & Repeat
- AutoCorrect
- Formatting Text & Paragraphs
- About Basic Font Formatting
- Working with Text Formatting
- Working with Line & Paragraph Spacing
- Using Format Painter
- Adding Symbols & Special Characters
- Proofing Tools
- Spelling & Grammar
- Using the Thesaurus & Other Research Options
- Checking Character & Word Count
- Working with the Custom Dictionary
- Editing in Print Preview
- Changing Your Page Appearance
- Changing Margins & Page Orientation
- Working with Page Breaks
- Adding Line Numbers
- Recap
Microsoft Word for Mac 2008: Intermediate
- Managing Documents
- Document Views
- Working with Multiple Documents
- Saving Your Word Document as a Web Page
- Additional Editing Tools
- Go To, Find & Replace
- Format Painter
- AutoText
- Paragraph Formatting
- Bullets & Numbering
- Tabs & Indents
- Borders & Shading
- Using Styles
- Introduction to Graphics
- Inserting ClipArt & Pictures
- Inserting Watermarks
- Using the Formatting Palette with Graphics
- AutoShapes
- Using Captions
- WordArt
- Using Publishing Layout View
- Document Formatting
- Section Breaks
- Headers & Footers
- Page Backgrounds & Page Borders
- Drop Caps
- Columns
- Tables
- Creating Tables
- Creating Quick Tables
- Navigating & Selecting in a Table
- Inserting & Deleting Columns and Rows
- Sorting
- Formatting Tables
- Performing Calculations in a Table
- Converting a Table to Text
- Customing Word
- Customizing Word’s Toolbars
- Modifying Word Options
- Recap
Microsoft Word for Mac 2008: Advanced
- Document Collaboration
- Working with Templates
- Using Track Changes
- Inserting Comments
- Merge Documents
- Mail Merge
- The Mail Merge Process
- Walking Throught the Mail Merge Process
- Form Letters
- Envelopes
- Labels
- Working with Themes
- Using Themes
- Creating Custom Themes
- SmartArt
- About SmartArt
- Creating a List
- Creating a Hierarchy
- Creating a Pyramid
- Editing SmartArt
- Long or Complex Documents
- Bookmarks
- Footnotes & Endnotes
- Tables of Content
- Recap
Instructor: Deanna Reynolds
Deanna Reynolds (MCTS) is an author and technical instructor living in Suffolk, Virginia. Since 1993, Deanna has been privileged to work with students traveling many different career paths on a multitude of software programs, including the entire Microsoft Office suite, project management, desktop publishing, and database development. Throughout her career, Deanna has led hundreds of computer productivity training sessions, from beginner through advanced levels.
Most recently, Deanna’s technical training has extended beyond the classroom to include more than 10 DVD-ROM courses for KeyStone Learning Systems and two published books: Word 2007 Pocket Book (Prentice Hall) and Managing Projects with Microsoft Office Project 2007 (Microsoft Press). |
