Course Aims

• Introduce students to Microsoft Word’s interface and basic functions.

• Equip students with the essential skills to create, format, and save documents.

• Develop confidence in producing clear, well-structured documents for school, work, or personal use.

Course Outline

Session 1: Getting Started with Word, Basic Text Formatting

• Introduction to Word and its uses

• Tour of the interface: Ribbon, tabs, Quick Access Toolbar, status bar

• Opening, creating, saving, and closing documents

• Typing practice: entering and editing text

• Understanding undo, redo, copy, cut, paste

• Changing fonts, sizes, and colors

• Applying bold, italics, underline

• Text alignment: left, center, right, justify

• Using the Format Painter

• Clearing formatting

Session 2: Structuring Your Document, Working with Tables, Pictures & Shapes

• Using headings and subheadings (styles)

• Creating numbered and bulleted lists

• Paragraph spacing and line spacing

• Indents and tabs

• Inserting and formatting tables

• Adding and resizing images

• Applying picture styles and effects

• Inserting shapes and SmartArt

Session 3: Tools to Improve Your Document, Sharing & Printing Documents

• Using spelling & grammar check

• Find & Replace

• Page layout basics: margins, orientation, page breaks

• Adding page numbers, headers, and footers

• Saving as PDF

• Print preview and print settings

• Sharing documents via email or cloud

• Recap of key skills learned

• Final mini-project: create a short document combining text, lists, table, and picture