ECDL Module 3 - Word Processing

ECDL 5 / BCS Level 3 Courseware

Course Outline

TEXT FORMATTING

• Text wrapping options for graphics within Microsoft Word
• Text wrapping options within Microsoft Word tables
• Advanced find and replace options using font formatting
• Advanced find and replace options using paragraph formatting
• Advanced find and replace options using paragraph marks
• Advanced find and replace options using page breaks
• 'Paste Special' options using formatted text
• 'Paste Special' options using unformatted text

PARAGRAPH FORMATTING

• Line spacing options including 'at least'
• Line spacing options including 'exactly/ fixed'.
• Line spacing options including 'multiple/proportional'.
• Applying paragraph pagination options.
• Removing paragraph pagination options.
• Applying outline numbering within multi-level lists.
• Modifying outline numbering within multi-level lists.

STYLE FORMATTING

• Creating a character style
• Modifying a character style
• Updating a character style
• Creating a paragraph style
• Modifying a paragraph style
• Updating a paragraph style

COLUMN FORMATTING

• Applying multiple column layouts.
• Changing number of columns within a column layout.
• Changing column widths and spacing
• Inserting lines between columns
• Removing lines between columns
• Inserting column breaks.
• Deleting column breaks.

TABLE FORMATTING

• Applying AutoFormating to a table
• Merging cells within a table.
• Splitting cells within a table.
• Adjusting cell margins.
• Adjusting cell alignment.
• Adjusting cell text direction.
• Automatically repeating heading row(s) at the top of each page.
• Allowing row(s) to break across pages.
• Preventing row(s) from breaking across pages.
• Sorting data by one column.
• Sorting data by multiple columns at the same time.
• Converting delimited text to a table.
• Converting a table to text.

CAPTIONS, FOOTNOTES AND ENDNOTES

• Adding a caption above a graphical object or table.
• Adding a caption below a graphical object or table.
• Adding caption labels.
• Deleting caption labels.
• Changing the caption number format.
• Inserting footnotes.
• Modifying footnotes.
• Inserting endnotes.
• Modifying endnotes.
• Converting a footnote to an endnote.
• Converting an endnote to a footnote.

REFERENCE TABLES AND INDEXES

• Creating a table of contents based on specified heading styles
• Updating a table of contents based on specified heading styles
• Creating a table of figures based on specified styles
• Updating a table of figures based on specified styles
• Marking an index main entry
• Marking an index subentry
• Deleting a marked index entry
• Creating an index based on marked index entries.
• Updating an index based on marked index entries.

BOOKMARKS AND CROSS-REFERENCES

• Adding a bookmark.
• Deleting a bookmark.
• Creating a cross-reference to a numbered item
• Creating a cross-reference to a heading
• Creating a cross-reference to a bookmark.
• Creating a cross-reference to a figure.
• Creating a cross-reference to a table.
• Deleting a cross-reference to a numbered item.
• Deleting a cross-reference to a heading
• Deleting a cross-reference to a bookmark
• Deleting a cross-reference to a figure
• Deleting a cross-reference to a table
• Adding a cross-reference to an index entry.

USING FIELDS

• Inserting fields such as the author.
• Inserting fields such as the file name & path.
• Inserting fields such as file size.
• Inserting fields such as fill-in fields.
• Deleting fields such as author, file name and path, file size or fill-in fields.
• Inserting a sum formula field code within a table.
• Changing the number formatting used by a field.
• Locking a field.
• Unlocking a field.
• Updating a field.

FORMS AND TEMPLATES

• Creating a form using form field options for text fields
• Creating a form using form field options for check boxes
• Creating a form using form field options for drop-down menus
• Modifying field options applicable to text fields
• Modifying field options applicable to check boxes
• Modifying field options applicable to drop-down menus
• Adding help text to a form field that is visible on status bar
• Adding help text to a form field that is activated by FHelp key
• Protecting a form.
• Un-protecting a form.
• Modifying a template.

MAIL MERGE

• Editing a mail merge recipient list
• Sorting a mail merge recipient list
• Inserting ask, if…then…else… fields.
• Merging a document with a recipient list using given merge criteria.

LINKING AND EMBEDDING

• Inserting a hyperlink
• Editing a hyperlink
• Removing a hyperlink
• Linking data from a document and displaying the linked object as an icon.
• Linking data from an application and displaying the linked object as an icon.
• Updating links.
• Breaking links.
• Embedding data into a document as an object.
• Editing embedded data.
• Deleting embedded data.

AUTOMATION OPTIONS

• Applying automatic text formatting options.
• Creating automatic text correction entries.
• Modifying automatic text correction entries.
• Deleting automatic text correction entries.
• Creating automatic text entries
• Modifying automatic text entries
• Inserting automatic text entries
• Deleting automatic text entries
• Recording a simple macro such as changing page set-up.
• Recording a simple macro such as inserting a table with a repeating heading row
• Recording a simple macro such as inserting fields in document header or footer.
• Running a macro.
• Assigning a macro to a custom button on a toolbar.

TRACKING AND REVIEWING

• Turning tracking of changes on or off.
• Tracking changes within a document using a specified display view.
• Accepting or rejecting changes within a document.
• Inserting comments
• Editing comments
• Deleting comments
• Showing comments
• Hiding comments
• Comparing documents.
• Merging documents.

MASTER DOCUMENTS

• Creating a new master document by creating sub documents from headings.
• Inserting a subdocument within a master document.
• Removing a subdocument from a master document.
• Using text outline options such as promote, demote, expand, collapse, move up and move down.

SECURITY

• Adding 'opening' password protection for a document to not allow opening without the password
• Adding 'Modify' password protection to a document to now allow modification without the password
• Removing 'open' password protection from a document
• Removing 'modify' password protection from a document
• Protect a document to only allow tracked changes or comments.

SECTIONS

• Creating section breaks within a document
• Modifying section breaks within a document
• Deleting section breaks within a document
• Changing page orientation for sections within a document.
• Changing page vertical alignment for sections within a document.
• Changing margins for sections within a document.

DOCUMENT SET-UP

• Applying different headers and footers to sections
• Applying different headers and footers to the first page
• Applying different headers and footers to odd and even pages within a document.
• Adding a watermark to a document
• Modifying a watermark within a document
• Removing a watermark from a document