For Word users who have a basic understanding of typing, editing, saving, retrieving and printing documents, and want to learn more of its features. Shows how to set margins and indents. Shows how to use the thesaurus. Explains the AutoCorrect suite of services and how to use them. Shows how to insert special characters, create bulleted, numbered and outlined lists. Shows how to search for text, codes and formats in a document. Shows how to view document statistics. Shows how to create tables. Includes data diskette.

Concepts you will master:

  • Margins and indents
  • The thesaurus
  • AutoCorrect, AutoFormat and AutoText
  • Special characters
  • Bulleted and numbered lists
  • Numbered outlines
  • Wildcard searches
  • Tables
  • Cell coordinates
  • Cell formulas

Skills you will learn:

  • Increasing and decreasing left and right paragraph indents using the toolbar, the Ruler Bar and the Paragraph dialog box
  • Increasing and decreasing left and right margins using the Page Setup dialog box
  • Creating a hanging indent using the Ruler Bar, the keyboard and the Paragraph dialog box
  • How to check the spelling and grammar of a document manually
  • How to use the thesaurus to look up synonyms for words
  • Using AutoCorrect to automatically correct commonly misspelled words
  • Using AutoFormat to automatically format text as you type
  • Using AutoText to automatically insert "boilerplate" text in a document
  • Viewing document statistics, such as the number of characters, words and paragraphs it contains
  • Viewing paragraph and spacing codes in a document
  • Inserting non-keyboard characters in a document, such as © and ½
  • Creating and editing a bulleted list
  • Creating and editing a numbered list
  • Creating and editing a numbered outline
  • Finding and replacing text, formats and special characters
  • Applying switches to refine a text search
  • Using wildcard symbols to expand a text search
  • Creating a table using the Table menu and the Insert Table button
  • Changing the width of columns
  • Aligning and formatting text within a table
  • Aligning a table on the page
  • Inserting and deleting rows and columns
  • Writing formulas to compute values in a table
  • Using the Draw Table tool
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