Software version number: 8.0

Course length: 1 day

Prerequisites: Windows 95: Introduction, and Word 97: Level 1 or equivalent knowledge.

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

Benefits: Students will learn about tables, styles, templates, and macros; how to merge documents; multiple-columnar formats; and Internet basics.

Target student: Students enrolling in this course should understand the basic concepts involved in working with a personal computer (PC). For example, students should be familiar with such terms as computer memory, data files, and program files. Students should also be familiar with the components that make up the personal computer, such as input, output, and storage devices. Completion of the Logical Operations Word 97: Level 1 class is assumed.

What's next: Word 97: Level 1 is the first course in this series. Word 97: Advanced, the next course in this series, teaches students how to create forms, use drawings, create reports, control document sections, use external data, and share documents. Students will also learn advanced techniques to use with styles, templates, and workplace customization.

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, modify, perform calculations in, and import data in tables
• Use styles to affect the appearance of paragraphs and create outlines
• Create and use templates, and create a fax template
• Merge a document with data to create multiple variations of a document
• Create, run, and edit macros
• Format text in columns with graphics; use section breaks to format a document
• Discuss Internet features, create and edit an HTML document, and view the document source code

Course content

• Tables
• Drawing a table
• Performing calculations in tables
• Creating charts
• Importing worksheets and data

Lesson 2: Introduction to styles

• Applying styles
• Creating styles
• Redefining and deleting styles
• Using styles to create an outline

Lesson 3: Introduction to templates

• Using templates
• Using a fax template
• Examining the Normal template

Lesson 4: Introduction to merging

• Creating data
• Completing main documents
• Merging data with the main document
• Managing merges
• Creating catalogs

Lesson 5: Introduction to macros

• Creating and assigning macros
• Editing and testing macros
• Deleting a macro

Lesson 6: Newspaper columns

• Formatting text into newspaper columns
• Using graphics
• Sections
• Sorting

Lesson 7: Internet basics

• What is the Internet?
• Understanding the World Wide Web
• Word Internet features