Topic

By the end of the course, the student should be able to apply the following skills to create and edit professional business documents:

Development and enhancement of non-technical skills

Speak and write about the course topics with sufficient proficiency.  Apply critical thinking to a variety of topics in the course

Process text

Cut, copy insert and move text
Add bullets and numbering

Format characters

Apply font styles such as bold and italics and change font sizes
Use all underline options
Apply character effects

Place and align text

Use hyphenation
Align text horizontally
Set margins
Insert page breaks
Align text vertically
Insert date and time

Use paragraph formatting

Set line spacing options
Use indentation options

Use page numbers, headers and footers, and sections

Create and modify page numbers
Create sections with formatting that differs from other sections
Alternate headers and footers Format first page differently than subsequent pages

Use styles and templates

Create, apply, edit styles
Use templates

Edit text

Find and replace text
Navigate through a document
Set autocorrect exceptions
Create and apply frequently used text

Generate an outline

Create and modify an outline

Create documents for use on the Internet

Save a file as HTML
Create a hyperlink
Browse through a file

Use writing tools

Use the spelling command
Use the grammar command
Use the thesaurus command

Use columns

Key and edit text in columns
Revise column structure
Balance column length
Keep text in columns

Create tables

Create and format tables
Add border and shading to tables
Revise tables
Modify table structure
Rotate text in table

Use draw

Create and modify lines and objects
Create and modify 3D objects

Print documents and envelopes

Use print preview
Print a document
Prepare and print envelopes and labels
Change page orientation

Use advanced formatting

Use text flow options
Use non-breaking spaces

Use forms

Create and modify forms
Create catalogs and lists

Apply borders and shading

Create and modify page borders
Apply paragraph and section shading

Generate mail merge

Merge a document using variable data

Insert graphics and special characters

Add graphics
Delete and position graphics
Insert fields
Insert special characters

Use macros

Record and run macros
Edit macros

Use sort

Sort lists, paragraphs, tables
Sort records to be merged

Generate reference documents

Create and modify table of contents
Create and modify an index
Create cross-reference
Use bookmarks