Students will be introduced to the basic features of Microsoft Word to create professional looking reports, documents and correspondence. Topics covered include creating and editing documents, text formatting, and proofing documents.

Students should have a basic understanding of the Windows Operating system, (using a mouse and understand saving). Not required, but recommend, taking the Computer Literacy course.

A. Toolbars

B. Explore Word Screen

            2. Basic Word Skills

A. Enter text

B. Save, Open, Close

C. Edit text, cut, copy, paste

            3. Proofing Tools

A. Spell Checker

B. Thesaurus

A. Magnification

B. Switching views

C. Non-printing characters

            5. Printing

A. Print preview

B. Printing Options

A. Fonts

B. Text enhancement

            7. Paragraph Formatting

A. Paragraphs

B. Spacing

C. Indenting

D. Tabs

E. Print preview

            8. Borders and Shading