Expand on your Word skills and learn to use some of Word’s more powerful features.
Led by highly experienced Microsoft Word trainers, our hands-on courses mean that you will leave with lots of practical Word experience as well as useful tips and tricks.
✔ An intermediate Word course that covers more technical features.
✔ Plenty of one to one attention and time to ask questions.
✔ Friendly expert trainers, small groups and a comfortable place to learn.
✔ All the materials and extras that you’ll ever need.
✔ Ongoing support and help with issues you have after the course.
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Before you attend this course you need to have attended our Word Essentials course or have equivalent experience from your prior use of Word.
This means being able to produce, save and retrieve documents, and knowing how to edit and format characters and paragraphs in a document.
Not sure if this is the right level course for you?
Our Word course level adviser takes less than 60 seconds to complete.
Alternatively, give us a call, we’d be delighted to help.
Our courses run from 9.30am to roughly 4.15pm with refreshments and biscuits throughout the day and a break for lunch.
We offer a relaxed, supportive learning environment, fully air-conditioned training facilities and some of the nicest instructors on the planet.
Also, you’ll receive:
✔ A full-colour A4 manual to keep.
✔ A USB stick so that you can take home your course exercises.
✔ A Certificate of Attendance.
Columns are a great way of adding interest to your documents. They are frequently used to ensure that documents are easy to read and communicate well. They do however need to be set up correctly. We show you how to insert and manage columns in your Word document so that they don’t cause any issues.
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Now we focus on working with sections of text. We show you how to work with sections and how to insert section breaks into your document. We also cover inserting page breaks.
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Similar to columns, tables are a great way to present information in a Word document. They can make information far more straightforward to understand for readers. MS Word makes creating and formatting tables very quick and simple.
This session shows you how to create a table and how to edit it once it is created. It also looks at how to add and edit the data in your table. It also shows you how to ensure that your table looks just right by adjusting borders, columns widths and backgrounds.
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Having covered the basics of table creation and control in the previous session, we move on to more advanced table editing techniques. This section covers how to align the text in table cells, and how to work with formulas in your table cells. It also covers sorting your table data, as well as editing table properties, text alignment and a number of other presentation tricks.
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Microsoft Word contains a number of standard templates that can be used to save time when creating new documents. For example, it has a standard invoice template which contains tables with sections for all of the relevant information that is required in an invoice. Word also allows you to create and save your own templates, as well as apply a template to an existing document.
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Word includes an Auto Text function. This helps spot and correct typos. It can also be used to quickly insert a set word or series of words which you use repeatedly. This session covers how to work with Auto Text and also how to edit it as it doesn’t always get it right!
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A style is a predetermined combination of a font type, size and colour. Styles can be set up and saved so that they can then be applied very quickly to text. This ensures that your document can be very quickly and simply formatted. This session covers all aspects of creating and working with styles so that you can ensure that your documents are consistently formatted.
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Having introduced styles in the previous session, we take things a little further in this session. We look at how you can delete, modify, rename and update a style. We also look at importing styles from other Word documents and exporting them to other Word documents.
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Once you can understand and use styles, inserting a table of contents is easy. A couple of clicks of a button and you have a table of contents that makes navigating a document so much simpler.
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They say that a picture speaks a thousand words. This session covers all of Word’s picture functionality. It shows you how to insert pictures. It also covers Word’s picture editing functions which allow you to resize and control your picture to ensure that it works well in your document.
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Once you have an understanding of Word’s picture editing function, there are then many techniques you can use to enhance your document.
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Word contains a number of tools for creating shapes which can be used to create diagrams in your document. This section covers all aspects of working with shapes. So we start with how to insert them, how to select the correct one and how to position and size it correctly. We then look at applying styles to shapes and also inserting text into shapes.
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Another very helpful option in MS Word is to use text boxes to control your text. They are often very useful to highlight key points in a document. This session looks at how to use text boxes, how to move and resize them and how to position them correctly.
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Once you have created Text Boxes there are then many different ways of editing them and changing them to meet your needs. This session will give you an overview of multiple ways in which you can do so.
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To attend this Word course online, you will need:
✔ MS Word on your Windows PC/laptop with a camera, speakers & microphone
✔ A stable internet connection capable of running Zoom
✔ To be a confident computer user and able to use Zoom to attend the course
If you have access to a second screen, we would encourage you to use it as it improves the experience.