Microsoft Word is an essential tool for any individual in today’s digital age. Proficiency in Word is a vital skill used in both business and basic day-to-day activities. Word 2016 Level 1 provides the basic concepts and skills to start being productive with Microsoft Word 2016: how to create, format, and set up a document, and how to add graphics and tables.

Performance Outcomes: Upon completion of this course you should be able to:

• Identify components of Word
• Create, save, preview a document
• Format font appearance and highlight text
• Format paragraph alignment and spacing
• Adding tabs and indents
• Using Quick Styles, sets and themes
• Manage lists and customizing bullets
• Set margins, page breaks and columns
• Proof documents and use AutoCorrect
• Learn to control print settings
• Add headers and footers
• Work with templates
• Insert and edit graphic objects, screenshots and pictures from the web
• Add tables to a document or convert tables to text
• Control a document's page setup

Course Competencies: Fundamentals of Word

Intended Audience: Beginning Word Users

Recommended Pre-requisites: To be successful in this course, you should be familiar with using personal computers, the mouse and keyboard. You should be able to use Windows to launch and close programs; navigate to information stored on the computer; and manage files and folders. To ensure your success, we recommend you first take an introductory Windows course.