Getting Started With Word 2000

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Overview

Students will learn the basic skills necessary to begin using Word 2000

Prerequisites

To ensure students' success with this course, we recommend that they first take the following Element K Content courses or have equivalent knowledge:

Windows 95 : Introduction
Windows 98 : Introduction
Windows NT 4.0 : Introduction

Target Student

Students enrolling in this course should understand the basic concepts involved in working with a personal computer (PC). No prior knowledge of Word is assumed.

What's Next

Getting Started with Word 2000 is the pared-down version of the first course in the Word 2000 series. Word 2000: Level 1, the first full day course in this series, teaches students more about how to use basic skills in Word 2000. Word 2000: Level 2, the next course in this series, teaches students how to use intermediate features of Word 2000. Students who want to learn advanced features can take Word 2000: Advanced .

Performance-Based Objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Identify the components of the application window and adjust some default settings; create, save, and close a document; open an existing document; and use simple editing techniques.
Navigate in a large document by using the mouse and keyboard and locate specific places and words in a document by using the Find, Replace, and Go To commands.
Edit a document by using more sophisticated techniques, including moving and copying text within a document and between documents.
Apply and remove character and paragraph formatting.
Use tabs and create a table.
Adjust margins, and add and delete page breaks.
Use Word's spelling checker, and print a document.
Save an existing document as a Web page, and preview it in a browser.

Delivery Method

Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities and independent lab activities

Benefits

Students will learn how to create and edit documents and use character and paragraph formatting.

Course duration 0.5 Day(s Course outline

Lesson 1: Word basics: Topic 1A: Introduction to Word; Topic 1B: Creating a new blank document and basics of entering text; Topic 1C: The Save As command; Topic 1D: Opening and editing a document

Lesson 2: Navigating in a document: Topic 2A: Scrolling within a document; Topic 2B: Searching a document

Lesson 3: Additional editing techniques: Topic 3A: Techniques for selecting text; Topic 3B: Moving text

Lesson 4: Character and paragraph formatting: Topic 4A: Basic character formatting techniques; Topic 4B: Additional character formatting techniques; Topic 4C: Paragraph formatting

Lesson 5: Introduction to tabs and tables: Topic 5A: Working with tabs; Topic 5B: Creating a table

Lesson 6: Controlling page appearance: Topic 6A: Modify margins; Topic 6B: Page breaks

Lesson 7: Tools and printing: Topic 7A: Using proofing tools; Topic 7B: Printing a document

Lesson 8: Creating a Web page: Topic 8A: Creating a Web page
Hardware Requirements/software required to run this course