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CSCI C122

Advanced Microsoft Word
 

CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This is a hands-on microcomputer course designed to provide advanced understanding Microsoft Word©. Topics to be covered include intermediate formatting paragraph techniques, document and table design, graphic features, mail merge, form development, macros and collaborating with Workgroups. This course prepares the student to pass the expert level Microsoft Office Specialist certification exam.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

1. Use the advanced features of Microsoft Word including formatting features with documents, paragraphs, tables, and charts including shading borders bookmarks, watermarks, special characters, cross reference lists.
2. Use other advanced features including inserting field, create, apply and delete macros, create and modify a form, use advanced text alignment with graphics and customizing toolbars.

TEXTBOOKS/READINGS:

Microsoft Word 2000 Advanced Course, by H. Albert Napier and Philip J. Judd; South-Western Educational Publishing, 2000.

ASSIGNMENTS:

Students are required to design master documents using advanced formatting techniques, tables, chart and graphic object linking and embedding, form development, document collaborating with workgroups to demonstrate proficiency in this application program.

EVALUATION AND GRADING SCALE:

Midterm 25%
Final Examination 25%
Homework/Projects 50%
 

DETAILED TOPICAL OUTLINE:

1. Working with Paragraphs
   1. Apply paragraph and section shading
   2. Use text flow options (Widows/Orphans options and keeping lines together)
   3. Sort lists, paragraphs, tables
2. Working with Documents
   1. Create and modify page borders
   2. Format first page differently than subsequent pages
   3. Use bookmarks
   4. Create and edit styles
   5. Create watermarks
   6. Use find and replace with formats, special characters and non-printing elements
   7. Balance column length (using column breaks appropriately)
   8. Create or revise footnotes and endnotes
   9. Work with master documents and subdocuments
   10. Create and modify a table of contents
   11. Create cross-reference
   12. Create and modify an index
3. Using Tables
   1. Embed worksheets in a table
   2. Perform calculations in a table
   3. Link Microsoft® Excel data as a table
   4. Modify worksheets in a table
4. Working with Pictures and Charts
   1. Add bitmapped graphics
   2. Delete and position graphics
   3. Create and modify charts
   4. Import data into charts
5. Using Mail Merge
   1. Create main document
   2. Create data source
   3. Sort records to be merged
   4. Merge main document and data source
   5. Generate labels
   6. Merge a document using alternate data sources
6. Using Advanced Features
   1. Insert a field
   2. Create, apply and edit macros
   3. Copy, rename, and delete macros
   4. Create and modify form
   5. Create and modify a form control (e.g., add an item to a drop-down list)
   6. Use advanced text alignment features with graphics
   7. Customize toolbars
7. Collaborating with Workgroups
   1. Insert comments
   2. Protect documents
   3. Create multiple versions of a document
   4. Track changes to a document
   5. Set default file location for workgroup templates
   6. Round Trip documents from HTML