Mastering Ms-Word for professional documents

Stop there if you know what I am talking about! You know more about Microsoft Word than just to type?  If you didn’t, then welcome to this side of the line where we think we are proficient in Microsoft Word – but honestly aren’t. You are fine as long as you fire up a document and just type! You need to be prosecuted for wasting Bill Gate’s efforts…

Microsoft Word is commonly used on a daily basis for both personal and professional reasons. However, are users effectively utilizing all the features available to the best of their ability?  When it comes to bashing out everyday documents, there’s rarely much need to venture beyond Word’s Home tab. But tucked away within the interface, there’s a wealth of additional tools waiting to be discovered. These features aren’t really “secret”, but many users never find them – and they could save you considerable time and effort.

Many of them have been in Word for a decade or more, and can be found in the menus of Word XP and Word 2003, but we’ll focus on the ribbon interface from Word 2007 and above, which was, after all, invented to help users find the software’s more esoteric features.

Course Contents

       Word interface, short cut and formatting, customized ribbon

In an ideal world, every element in your document would have a style assigned to it. But if you’ve relied on local formatting, it’s still easy to make global changes. The ribbon interface was designed to be more stable than the highly customizable Office 2003 interface.

       Translate, Spelling and grammar, Thesaurus

Word’s Review | Translate function sends the text of your document to the Microsoft Translator web page and displays a translation in a browser window. In Word 2010 and above, you can also activate Review | Translate | Mini Translator. You can as well replace a word with its synonyms, do spell checks.

       Introducing the professional ways of doing table of contents, references, footnotes, endnotes, bibliography and index.

       Inserting bookmarks, hyperlinks,  headers and footers, cover page, number pages,  tables, excel table in word, clip art, pictures and chart

       Ms-word Alignment tricks, random text generation, lines generation, section breaks, page break, track changes

       Citations:- For academic works, Word can also help you manage your citations.  You can choose a citation format from 14 recognized styles, including APA and MLA standards, and at the end you can generate a bibliography with one click.

       Macros: – Office’s scripting interface is sophisticated to say the least, if you want to automate a simple, repetitive task, macro is larger than life!

       Mathematical equations and symbols in word document, proof reading.

       Phone inquiry form master

       Saving as word document, word template or PDF file: We can save a document as a template to be re-used, as a PDF and also convert from PDF into word doc.

       Combine and compare documents:- Word can automatically compare or combine two documents and generate a master document.

 Inserting Customized tab and ribbon in addition to the existing tabs and ribbons

 Duration: Two (2) days                                           Cost: N85,000