Word VBA Overview

Course Overview

This training course is designed to enable delegates to produce practical everyday documents quickly and efficiently using Word.

Audience

Anybody that needs to understand the fundamentals of Microsoft Word.

Prerequisites

None required.

Course Outline

Screen Layout

• Title Bar
• Menu Bar
• Toolbars
• Scrollbars
• Task Pane
• Ask a question

Word Processing Essential Principles

• Entering and Editing Text
• Name, Address and Date Smart Tags
• Word wrap
• Use of Show/Hide
• Saving Files, Opening Files
• Printing

Viewing Your Documents

• Normal View
• Web Layout
• Print Layout
• Print Preview
• Multiple Documents

Efficient Navigation

• Using Scrollbars
• Using Browse Object
• Go To
• Useful Keyboard Shortcuts

Selecting Text

• Selecting text using the Mouse
• Selecting text using the Keyboard
• Quick ways to select words, sentences, paragraphs
• Selecting non-concurrent text

Editing Tools

• Cut, Copy and Paste
• The Clipboard Task pane
• Paste Special

Enhancing Text With Formatting

• Using Font level formats
• Changing font type, size, colour, special effects, character spacing
• Changing the default font for all new documents
• Using Paragraph level formats
• Paragraph justification, indentation, space before and after
• Line and page break options
• Inserting non breaking hyphens and spaces
• Applying borders and shading
• Creating numbered and bulleted lists
• Format Painter
• Styles and Formatting Task Pane
• Revealing formatting
• Clearing formatting

Arranging Text using Tabs

• Using default tabs
• Changing ruler measurement units
• Setting your own tabs
• Using leader tabs
• Using bar tabs

Proofing Tools

• Find and Replace
• Word Count toolbar
• Spell Checker

Essential Page Layout Tools

• Inserting page breaks
• Inserting section breaks
• Changing page orientation
• Adding Headers and Footers
• Page numbering
• Changing Margins
• Adding a Page Border
• Watermarks