Working with Text and Paragraphs in Word 2007

Overview/Description
Word 2007 makes it easy to apply formatting to documents by providing a live visual preview of various formatting options. This enables you to view the formatting change before actually committing to it. This course explains the Font and Paragraph formatting options, as well as the Mini toolbar and live preview features. In addition, the creation and formatting of bulleted, numbered, and multi-level lists and the insertion of symbols or special characters are demonstrated. Setting margins, paragraph indents, tab stops, text alignment, and showing or hiding formatting marks will also be explored in this course.

Target Audience
Personnel at all levels of the enterprise; end-users seeking to attain competency in Word 2007; end-users seeking to obtain Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification at Core level in the use of Microsoft Word 2007; end-users seeking a basic IT certification such as ECDL/ ICDL3, or an equivalent.

Prerequisites
Microsoft Office 2007: New Features learning path; familiarity with a Windows environment

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

Working with Text and Paragraphs in Word 2007

identify the formatting options in Word

use the Home tab to format text

apply basic text formatting in a scenario

cut and paste text in a Word document

copy and paste text in a Word document

create lists in a Word document

add symbols in a Word document

format text

cut and paste text

add a numbered list and a symbol to text

work with margins in a Word document

set indents in a Word document

use tab stops

align text in a Word document

set margins and tabs in a document

center text and indent a paragraph in a document