Getting acquainted with Word 2003

• Learning your way around the screen
• Using the menus, toolbars, task panes, keyboard and mouse
• Working with documents
• Creating, saving, closing and opening documents
• Updating your document
• Working with several documents at once

Help !

• Where to go for help
• Using the Office Assistant
• Using the Word Help
• Asking Microsoft Word a question

Editing a document

• Selecting text using the mouse and keyboard
• Finding your way around a document
• Using Delete and Backspace
• Using Insert and Overtype
• Checking your spelling and grammar
• Choosing a synonym
• Editing techniques
• Copying and moving text
• Finding a piece of text and replacing it with another
• Using Undo and Re-do

Formatting words

• Setting the font, font size and font colour
• Making a word bold or italic
• Adding underline
• Time-saving techniques
• Making a word upper or lower case
• Using the menu, toolbar and keyboard
• Using the Font dialog box.

Formatting paragraphs

• In-dents and Out-dents
• Spacing out your paragraph

Formatting pages

• Setting the margins
• Changing the paper size
• Changing from portrait to landscape
• Adding page numbers
• Adding headers and footers
• Positioning items in the header and footer
• Inserting the data and time
• A picture paints a thousand words
• Adding clipart and photos to your document

Working with multiple documents

• Working on more than one document at a time
• Moving between documents
• Copying text between documents
• Moving and resizing windows
• Closing several documents at once

Bullets, Numbering & Symbols

• One-click bullets
• One-click numbers
• Changing the style of your bullets
• Using symbol bullets

Simple Tables

• Creating a table using the menu or toolbar
• Moving around a table
• Selecting a cell, row or column
• Inserting an extra row or column
• Deleting a row or column
• Formatting a table quickly

Printing your documents

• Previewing your document
• Printing your document