Word 2007 Resources

Updated 2008.09.04o

Objectives

Sample Files

·         A Christmas Carol (navigation, editing, character formatting, paragraph formatting)

·         Lincoln (find and replace)

·         Red-Headed League (find and replace)

 

Basic skills Video

·         General Word Processing Tips

·         Customizing Word

·         Views and Zoom

·         Navigation and Selection

·         Editing

·         File commands and printing

·         Page Orientation

·         Margins

·         Formatting characters

·         Formatting paragraphs

 

·         Bulleted Lists

·         Numbered Lists

·         Autotext

·         Keyboard shortcuts (short list)

 

Skills for writing a term paper

·         Checking spelling and grammar

·         Inserting a page break

·         Headers and footers: creating and editing

·         Headers and footers: inserting page numbers

·         Headers and footers: inserting the current date

·         Creating a cover page

·         Endnotes and Footnotes

 

Positioning text: Tabs

·         Tabs the hard way

·         Tabs

·         Tables

·         Borders and Shading

 

Graphics Elements

·         Text boxes

·         Clip Art

·         Importing Clip Art from the Web (U of Wisconsin)

·         Pictures

·         Auto Shapes

·         Picture Tools—The Format Ribbon

·         Word Art

·         More Using WordArt (U of Wisconsin)

·         More Editing WordArt (U of Wisconsin)

 

Miscellaneous

·         Sample file: a Christmas Carol (see link above)

·         How Word documents are organized: characters, paragraphs, sections

·         Formatting sections

·         Columns

·         Page Orientation

·         Watermarks, Drop Caps

·         Features for working with large documents

·         Mail Merge

·         Macros

·         Inserting a table of contents

·         Templates

·         Free templates and Free fonts

·         Using Word to create other types of documents

·         Keyboard shortcuts (long list)

 

Using Word to create a web page

·         Web servers and browsers

·         Adding hyperlinks

·         Adding a theme

 

Microsoft pages

·         Office Home Page: starting place for info about Word

·         Downloads: get the latest update (MS calls them "service packs") to Word

·         Free Word Viewer: download this program and you can read Word documents even if you don't have Word

·         Microsoft Reader: for reading e-books (or having them read to you!)

·         Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Home Page: get your Word skills certified

 

Other pages:

·          University of Wisconsin

·          Word practice test

·          Download a trial version of Office 2007

 

MS Office Specialist Word Objectives

MS Office Specialist Word Expert Objectives