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Course date and times
This is a two-day course.
Day one - Tuesday 10 June 2025
9.30am to 4.30pm
Day two - Wednesday 11 June 2025
9.30am to 4.30pm
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Day one – Wednesday 20 August 2025
9.30am – 4.30pm
Day two - Thursday 21 August 2025
9.30am – 4.30pm
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Course description
The Advanced Word course covers advanced topics which would help users create and manage documents more efficiently, such as table of contents, bookmarks, cross references, endnotes and footnotes and so on.
This course also deals with advanced mail merge features, using tables, creating macros, tracking changes and other tools which are useful in the creation and management of word processing documents.
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Prerequisites of course
Attendance at an Intermediate Word Course or extensive knowledge of Microsoft Word.
Check Points:
- Can you create and save documents?
- Can you edit and format the text within these documents?
- Can you apply bullets and numbers to lists?
- Can you create and edit tables?
- Can you perform a mail merge?
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Course agenda
Exercise |
Details |
Exercise 1 |
- Create columns within documents
- Save a document with security settings
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Exercise 2 |
Apply various paragraph formats and controls
- Apply text wrapping to objects
- Paste Special options
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Exercise 3 |
Use find and replace to find and replace special characters, paragraph marks and so on |
Exercise 4 |
Create, modify and apply styles to text in a document |
Exercise 5 |
Perform the following within tables:
- merge and split cells
- sort the information in a table
- perform simple calculations
Convert tabbed text to a table and vice versa |
Exercise 6 |
Add captions to tables and images |
Exercise 7 |
Create, edit and delete:
- bookmarks
- indexes
- cross references and
- footnotes and end notes
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Exercise 8 |
Create and update a table of contents and figures. |
Exercise 9 |
- Insert and format headers and footers
- Insert page numbers which do not begin on the first page of a document.
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​Exercise 10 |
- Entering field codes into a document
- Locking and unlocking these field codes
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Exercise 11 |
Create and protect forms |
Exercise 12 |
Perform tasks within a mail merge such as sorting, editing and filtering the datasource and using the ASK and IF –THEN ELSE fields. |
Exercise 13 |
Embed and link data within a document. |
Exercise 14 |
Create, run and delete macros and assign a macro to an icon on a toolbar. |
Exercise 15 |
- Use collaborative editing to track changes and add comments to a document.
- Compare and merge documents.
- Protect a document to only allow tracked changes.
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Exercise 16 |
Create Master documents, insert subdocuments, promote and demote headings. |
Exercise 17 |
- Enter a watermark into a document
- Apply outline numbering to a list
- Changing section margins and orientation
- Use the automatic text formatting tools
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Exercise 18 |
Use the AutoCorrect and the AutoText tools within Word |
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Goals and objectives of course
Goals
- To introduce and develop the users understanding of some of the more complex features of Microsoft Word.
- To give users the skills required to successfully complete the Advanced Word Processing ICDL module for syllabus 2.
Objectives
After completing this course you will be able to:
- Create columns within documents
- Save a document with security settings
- Apply various paragraph formats and controls
- Use Find and Replace to find and replace special characters, paragraph marks
- Create, modify and apply styles to text in a document
- Perform the following within tables : merge and split cells, sort the information in a table, perform simple calculations, convert tabbed text to a table and vice versa
- Add captions to tables and images within a document
- Use referencing within a document to create, edit and delete bookmarks, indexes and cross references
- Enter, edit and delete footnotes and endnotes
- Create and update a table of contents and figures
- Insert and format headers and footers in a document
- Insert page and section breaks
- Insert page numbers which do not begin on the first page of a document and change the format of these page numbers
- Entering field codes into a document. Locking and unlocking these field codes
- Create and protect forms
- Perform tasks within a mail merge such as sorting, editing and filtering the datasource and using the ASK and IF – THEN ELSE fields
- Embed and link data within a document
- Create, run and delete macros and assign a macro to an icon on a toolbar
- Use collaborative editing to track changes within a document and add comments to a document
- Compare and Merge documents
- Protect a document to only allow tracked changes
- Create Master documents, insert subdocuments, promote and demote headings
- Use the Automatic text formatting tools
- Apply Outline Numbering to a list
- Enter a watermark into a document
- Changing section margins, orientation within a document
- Use the AutoCorrect and the AutoText tools within Word.
You will complete all of these using MS Word 2007.
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Cost of course
Two day course: £350
All costs are exclusive of VAT.