Software version number: 8.0

Course length: 1 day

Prerequisites: Windows 95: Introduction or equivalent knowledge.

Delivery method: Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

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

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:  Word 97: Level 1 is the first course in this series. Word 97: Level 2, the next course in this series, teaches students how to use intermediate features of Word 97. Students who want to learn advanced features can take Word 97: 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:

• Create and save a document; open an existing document; and use simple editing techniques.
• Navigate in a large document by using the mouse and keyboard.
• 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 and modify a table structure.
• Adjust margins, add and delete page breaks, and create headers and footers.
• Use Word's proofing tools such as the speller and thesaurus.

Course content

• Introduction to Word
• The basics of entering text
• The File, Save As command
• Opening and editing a document
• Saving a document

Lesson 2: Navigating in a document

• Scrolling in a document
• Searching in a document

Lesson 3: Additional editing techniques

• Using the AutoCorrect feature
• Techniques for selecting text
• Moving and copying text

Lesson 4: Character and paragraph formatting

• Basic character formatting techniques
• Advanced character formatting techniques
• Paragraph formatting
• Working with indents, numbered lists, and bulleted lists
• Line breaks and line spacing

Lesson 5: Introduction to tabs and tables

• Tabs
• Creating a table
• Enhancing a table

Lesson 6: Controlling page appearance

• Headers and footers
• Margins
• Page breaks

Lesson 7: Tools and printing