If you are attending the course you need to be reasonably confident in using a PC, a keyboard and a mouse.

This course is for the complete beginner or someone who is self-taught and needs a refresher. It is designed to give you the foundation knowledge and skills to work efficiently and confidently with Microsoft Word.

• Create, save and print documents using Word effectively
• Easily copy, cut and paste text within a document or to other documents
• Use formatting tools to give a professional look to your text
• Create labels for use on envelopes
• Insert a table to put information into

Getting Started

• The Word screen
• Customising the Quick Access Toolbar
• The Ribbon Interface
• Customising the status bar

Creating Documents

• Creating a new document
• Entering text
• Inserting the date and time automatically
• Spell check
• Print preview and printing
• Saving and closing the document

Editing Documents

• Opening an existing document
• Selection techniques
• Inserting text
• Deleting text
• Changing case

Cut, Copy and Paste

• The clipboard
• Cut and paste 
• Copy and paste
• Drag and drop 

Working with Multiple Documents

• Opening a second document
• Viewing the documents together
• Cut copy and paste between documents

Labels

• Printing labels

Formatting Text

• Text enhancements
• Format painter
• Borders
• Inserting symbols
• Removing text formats

Formatting Paragraphs

• Aligning paragraphs
• Indenting text
• Line spacing
• Removing paragraph formats
• Introduction to Tables
• Creating a table
• Typing in a table
• Formatting a table with a Table Style

The course runs from 9:30am through to 4:30pm.

You will learn in a relaxed environment with a small group of people. A specialist tutor will guide and encourage you through all the learning necessary to develop your skills and questions are always welcome.

Included with your course
We provide the following with online and training centre delivered courses.

• Course notes
• Certificate of attendance
• 90 days post course support

Online Delivery
A link to the online training platform will be sent before the course, simply click the link and follow the instructions.

• See Virtual / Remote training information for more details
• Contact us if you'd like to test the platform before the morning of the course
• You can be located anywhere in the world with an internet connection and your computer

Our Training Centres
For training courses run at one of our training centres we include.

• Free onsite parking
• Lunch and refreshments
• Notepad, pen and Polos

Our Norwich on-site parking (NR3 1UB) is free and situated 5 minutes walk along the river to our training centre at St James Mill. If you arrive by train it is about 20 minutes on the Riverside walk or a short taxi ride to get to us. View full directions for Norwich and all our other venues.