Microsoft Word – Beginners
Learn or update your computer skills to produce attractive, structured letters and forms. Become adept at copying, cutting, pasting, editing and formatting text, tabs and leaders, tables and columns.
Interested in attending any future dates of this course?
Register your interest now
Description
NOTE: This course is subsidised with funding from the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) for NZ citizens and permanent migrant adults and young people aged 16+ who are not currently enrolled in a NZ secondary school. We need to collect extra information such as age, ethnicity, educational achievement and gender for statistical purposes. You must also provide evidence of NZ citizenship or residency if requested. A condition of accepting this subsidised course fee is attending at least 80% of classes.
About the course
Particularly suitable for people who want to rejoin the work force and need to update their word processing skills. In six classes the following topics are covered:-
- Keying in text and editing using different formats, eg bold, italics, underscore etc.
- Spellcheck
- Cut, Copy and Paste
- Alignment – left align, centre, right align and justify
- Single and double line spacing
- Setting left and right margins
- Indenting paragraphs of text
- Finding and replacing text
- Headers and Footers
- Intro to Clip Art and borders etc – designing menus
- Tabs
- Decimals tabs
- Leader Dots
- Tables – merging, splitting cells, inserting columns/rows and deleting, moving columns within a table and also sorting of table
- Using a formula in tables to add up a column
- Beginners correction signs and manuscript correction signs
- Subscript and superscript characters
- Strike through
- Inserting page breaks into a document
- Adding bullets or numbering etc
- Watermarks
- Layout of letters – fully blocked and open punctuation
This course is taught on personal computers at Selwyn College. Students should have basic familiarity with a computer and windows to attend this course. Contact us if you would like information or advice about other computing courses.
Testimonials
"Relaxed atmosphere. Fun way to learn." Anne D 24 March 2014
"I can highly recommend this course." Jenny W 24 March 2014
