Course Aims

• Enhance existing Word skills to produce structured, professional-quality documents.
• Introduce tools that improve productivity and document design.
• Enable learners to collaborate effectively and create documents suitable for reports, proposals and longer publications.

Course Outline
Session 1: Advanced Formatting & Styles, Managing Longer Documents

• Recap: Applying built-in styles
• Creating and modifying custom styles
• Using themes for consistent design
• Applying multilevel lists for outlines
• Using section breaks (next page, continuous)
• Inserting automatic table of contents
• Adding headers, footers and page numbers (different for each section)
• Navigation Pane and document map

Session 2: Presenting Data Visually, Advanced Layout & Design

• Inserting and formatting tables
• Creating and customizing charts
• Adding and editing SmartArt graphics
• Best practices for visual clarity
• Working with columns for newsletters
• Using text boxes for callouts
• Drop caps for emphasis
• Adding watermarks, background colors and borders

Session 3: Collaboration & Review Tools, Efficiency Tools & Final Project

• Tracking changes and accepting/rejecting edits
• Inserting, viewing and replying to comments
• Comparing two versions of a document
• Protecting documents with passwords
• Quick Parts and building blocks
• Using templates effectively
• Inserting hyperlinks and bookmarks
• Final mini-project: create a professional document using styles, visuals and collaboration tools
• Sharing and exporting (PDF, print options)