Word 2019 : Mastering the essentials - online training

1 Word 2019 – Level 1: Essential skills

This module offers interactive training consisting of 55 training videos, 55 exercises and 6 additional resources.

2 Get started in Word

• You need to know: About your word processor
• Opening a document
• Overview of the environment
• Moving around in a document
• Displaying the nonprinting characters
• You need to know: Text made easy
• Text input
• Managing paragraphs
• You need to know: Selecting, copying, moving
• Selecting and deleting text
• Undoing, redoing, repeating an action
• You need to know: Saving files
• Saving a document
• Creating a new document

3 Apply basic text formatting

• You need to know: Formatting characters
• Applying a quick style
• Applying a theme
• Formatting characters
• Character colour
• Character case
• Character font and size

4 Arrange paragraphs on the page

• Paragraph indents
• Paragraph alignment
• Paragraph spacing
• Line Spacing
• Borders and shading
• Moving text
• Copying text

5 Page layout, pagination and printing

• Page layout
• Zoom
• Printing
• Page breaks
• You need to know: Headers and footers
• Headers and footers
• Page numbering

6 Managing tabs and lists

• Setting a tab stop
• Tab stops with a leader line
• Managing tab stops
• Numbered and bulleted lists
• Customised bulleted list
• Customised numbered list
• Different levels in a list
• List styles
• Line breaks
• Hanging indents

7 Learn some new skills

• Using Microsoft Word Help
• Inserting a document, a cover page or a blank page
• Hyphenation
• Nonbreaking space or hyphen
• Inserting special characters
• Character spacing and position
• Finding text/formatting
• Replacing text/formatting
• Copying formats
• Using the learning tools
• Checking spelling and grammar
• Managing a custom dictionary
• AutoCorrect settings
• Finding synonyms
• Search and translation functions
• Views and windows

8 Word 2019 – Level 2: Intermediate skills

This module offers interactive training consisting of 41 training videos, 41 exercises and 1 additional resource.

9 Avoid repetitive typing

• Creating an AutoText
• Using an AutoText
• Managing AutoTexts
• The computer's date and time

10 Create a table

• Creating a table
• Text input and moving around in a table
• Selecting and inserting rows and columns
• Deleting rows and columns
• Table styles
• Formatting cells
• Row height and column width
• Alignment in cells and table alignment
• Merging or splitting a table's cells
• Converting text to table, table to text
• Sorting a table, a list or paragraphs
• Calculations in a table

11 Add graphic objects to your texts

• Drawing an object
• Sizing/rotating/adjusting a drawing object
• Moving/copying a drawing object
• Formatting a drawing object
• Text in a drawing object/WordArt
• Formatting text in an object/WordArt
• Inserting a picture
• Managing a picture
• Positioning and wrapping a picture
• Captions and table of illustrations
• Document background
• Charts
• Inserting objects from other applications
• Diagrams

12 Make letters - or mailshots - simple

• Creating envelopes/address labels
• You need to know: The mail merge
• Mail merge: associating a list of recipients with a document
• Inserting mail merge fields
• Running a mail merge
• Editing the recipients
• Adding and deleting recipients
• Sorting a list of recipients
• Selecting the records to print
• Conditional text in a mail merge
• Preparing labels via the mail merge
• Fields for variable data

13 Complementary material

Word (2019 and Office 365 versions) – Reference book

Online book: This module includes digital course material.

14 Word 2019 – Level 3: Advanced skills

This module offers interactive training consisting of 45 training videos, 45 exercises and 4 additional resources.