Today, Microsoft Word is used by many people to prepare letters, memos and documents. Many secretaries and people can do these very well. However, when they start writing a lengthy report or proposal, they will discover their skills are not sufficient to manage this kind of project and the concepts are also different between writing a short letter and a report. Also, they will face to the following problems :
don’t know the efficiency ways to control the format throughout the whole project, or
don’t know how to generate, update and format table of contents or
don’t know how to collaborate the work from the other team members
cannot perform the layout or format they want
This course is designed to address the above issues and will teach users concepts needed to write a professional look report from the planning stage to production stage.
Objectives
After finishing the course, candidates should be able to
know the features which are well suit for a large scale document project
pickup the most efficiency ways to start the project
keep the document’s format consistent
format and design various layouts suitable for reports
manage and use templates to standardise their projects
Who should attend
Secretaries, analysts or researchers want to write reports
Sales and marketing people preparing proposals, newsletters
HR department people want to write company procedures
People who want to improve and enhance their existing skills on using Word
Course outlines
Outline Editor
Formatting
Table
insert tables
editing inside a table
column and row insertion / deletion
changing columns and rows spacing
converting existing text into table
converting table back to text
Math Calculation
adding figures in columns or rows
inserting calculation result into your document
Styles
defining paragraph and character styles
editing styles
synchronising styles amongst documents
using list style
defining the numbering list style
combining paragraph style with list style
Header and Footer
odd header / footer
even header / footer
excluding the header / footer on the first page
Footnote
inserting a footnote
separator formatting
Border and shading
applying borders to page, paragraphs, tables or texts
shading page, paragraphs, tables and texts
Advanced Formatting
Space before / space after
Lines spacing
Widow and orphan control
keep lines together
keep with next
Section
inserting section break
creating mulitple columns documents
mixing different number of columns in a page
multiple headers and footers
Managing text and graphics
managing graphics
contrast, brightness adjustment
cropping and resizing graphics
wrapping text around graphic
Table of Contents (TOC) and index
generating, updating toc
formatting toc entries
creating and update index
Figures
inserting captions
generating table of figures
updating table of figures
Maintaining consistency
discussions on features which can help users keeping format consistent throughout the whole report
