Microsoft Word 2003 Expert
Courseware Training Materials
Part of the Computer Expert Series

Intermediate / Advanced level computer training materials for delivering training to your students, staff or clients.  A courseware site licence allows you to train an unlimited number of people, at your training center using these teaching resources.

Training Course Outlines 

SECURITY.

• Adding 'opening' password protection.
• Adding 'No Modifications password protection.
• Removing a document 'open' password protection.
• Removing a document 'no modification' password.
• Allowing only allow tracked changes or comments.

PARAGRAPH FORMATTING.

• Line spacing formatting options.
• Widow/Orphan control.
• Using ‘keep lines together’.
• 'Keep with next' option.
• Using ‘page break before’.
• Outline numbering formatting.

SECTIONS.

• What are section breaks?
• ‘Next page' section breaks.
• 'Odd page' section breaks.
• Changing the section break type.
• Deleting section breaks.
• Changing page orientation within sections.
• Changing page vertical alignment within sections.
• Changing margins within sections.

HEADER & FOOTERS

• Applying different headers and footers to sections.
• Applying different headers and footers to the first page.
• Applying different headers and footers to odd and even pages.

WATERMARKS

• Adding a text watermark.
• Removing a text watermark.
• Modifying a text watermark.
• Adding a picture watermark.

TABLES.

• Applying Table AutoFormat.
• Merging cells within a table.
• Splitting cells within a table.
• Modifying cell alignment.
• Modifying cell margins.
• Modifying text direction within cells.
• Repeating the table heading row for multi-page tables.
• Controlling row breaking across pages.
• Performing a single column sort.
• Multilevel sorting.
• Converting delimited text to a table.
• Converting a table to text.

STYLES.

• What are styles?
• Applying styles.
• Types of styles.
• Creating a paragraph style.
• Creating a character style.
• Modifying a style.
• Permitting style updating.
• Deleting a style.

TEXT WRAPPING.

• Applying 'In line' text wrapping formatting to a picture.
• Applying 'Square' wrapping formatting to a picture.
• Applying 'Tight' wrapping formatting to a picture.
• Applying 'Behind text' wrapping formatting to a picture.
• Applying 'In front of text' wrapping formatting to a picture.
• Applying wrapping formatting to an AutoShape.
• Applying wrapping formatting to a chart.
• Applying wrapping formatting to a photograph.
• Applying wrapping formatting to a diagram.
• Text wrapping options within Microsoft Word tables.

COLUMNS.

• Applying column formatting to an entire document.
• Applying column formatting to just selected text.
• Changing number of columns within a column layout.
• Changing column widths and spacing.
• Using preset column formatting.
• Inserting and removing lines between columns.
• Inserting column breaks.
• Deleting column breaks.

AUTOFORMAT, AUTOCORRECT & AUTOTEXT.

• Using AutoFormat.
• Using AutoCorrect to insert symbols.
• Creating, modifying and deleting an AutoCorrect entry.
• Creating and Inserting AutoText items.
• Modifying an AutoText item.
• Deleting an AutoText item.

ADVANCED FIND AND REPLACE

• Clever ways of using the 'Find and Replace' facility.
• Advanced find and replace options using font formatting.
• Advanced find and replace options using paragraph formatting.
• Advanced find and replace options using paragraph marks.
• Advanced find and replace options using page breaks.
• 'Paste Special' options using formatted and unformatted text.

CAPTIONS.

• Manually adding a caption to an object.
• Adding and removing caption labels.
• Changing the caption number formatting.

FOOTNOTES AND ENDNOTES

• Inserting footnotes.
• Editing and formatting footnotes.
• Inserting endnotes.
• Editing and formatting endnotes.
• Converting footnotes to endnotes.
• Converting endnotes to footnotes.

BOOKMARKS AND CROSS-REFERENCES.

• Adding a bookmark.
• Creating a cross-reference to a bookmark.
• Creating a cross-reference to a numbered item.
• Inserting a cross-reference to a heading.
• Inserting a cross-reference to a figure.
• Inserting a cross-reference to a table.
• Adding a cross-reference to an index entry.
• Deleting cross-references.
• Deleting a bookmark.

MASTER DOCUMENTS.

• What are Master Documents?
• Creating a new master document by creating sub documents from headings.
• Inserting sub-documents into a master document.
• Removing vs. deleting a sub-document.
• Removing a sub-document from a master document.
• Using text outline options.

FIELDS.

• Inserting Word fields.
• Inserting fill-in fields.
• Deleting fields.
• Changing the number formatting used by a field.
• Updating, locking and unlocking fields.
• Using the sum formula within a table.

FORMS.

• Creating and protecting form text fields.
• Creating and protecting form check boxes.
• Inserting and protecting form drop-down menus.
• Modifying form fields and displaying help.
• Protecting a form.
• Password protecting a form.

TEMPLATES

• What are Word templates?
• Creating and using a Word template.
• Modifying a Word template.

TRACKING AND COMMENTS.

• Tracking changes.
• Accepting or rejecting changes.
• Inserting comments.
• Displaying and editing comments.
• Deleting comments.
• Showing or hiding comments.
• Comparing and merging documents.

TABLES OF CONTENTS AND INDEXES.

• Creating a table of contents.
• Updating a table of contents.
• Creating and updating a table of figures.
• Creating index entries.
• Marking an index subentry.
• Compiling and updating an index.

MAIL MERGING.

• Editing and sorting a mail merge recipient list.
• Sorting and editing a mail merge recipient list (within the mail merge process).
• Ask fields and bookmarks.
• Inserting Ask fields.
• Inserting if…then…else… fields.
• Using mail merge criteria.

LINKING & EMBEDDING

• What is object linking?
• Linking data from a document as an icon.
• Updating a linked document.
• Breaking the link to a document.
• Linking data from an application and displaying the linked object as an icon.
• Linking data from an application and displaying the data.
• Updating or breaking an application link.
• What is object embedding?
• Embedding data into a document as an object.
• Editing embedded data.
• Deleting embedded data.

HYPERLINKS

• Inserting Hyperlinks.
• Editing a hyperlink.
• Removing a hyperlink.

MACROS

• Macro to change page set-up.
• Macro to insert a table with a repeating heading row.
• Macro to insert fields into a header or footer.