Skills outline

Getting started

Explore the Word screen
Menus, shortcut menus and toolbars.
Use View/Toolbars/Customize to show full menus and place Standard and Formatting toolbars in separate rows.
Enter text
Save/Save As
Print
Help

Editing

Primary Tools	Skills
Standard toolbar Edit menu	Insert mode/overtype mode Cut, Copy and Paste Correct spelling and grammar Use Thesaurus AutoCorrect AutoComplete Undo/Redo
Activity	Type a Letter

Formatting text

Primary Tools	Skills
Formatting toolbar Format menu Style list box	Font Font style, size and color Format painter Character styles Create a new style Change case Subscript and superscript Highlighting text Non-breaking spaces (Ctrl + Shift + Space)
Activities	Ten text effects

Formatting paragraphs

Primary Tools	Skills
Formatting toolbar Formatting paragraph dialog box Style list box	Show/hide Line spacing Text alignment Columns Drop cap Indents (left, right, first line and hanging) Bulleted and numbered lists Setting and modifying tabs Control widow and orphan lines Borders and shading Paragraph styles
Activities	Newspaper article

Formatting documents

Tools	Skills
Page Setup dialog box	Page margins Page orientation Page borders Line numbers Page and section breaks Center text vertically on a page Page numbers (Insert menu) Document map (View menu)
Activities	Thesis

Creating and formatting tables

Tools	Skills
Table toolbar Table menu	Create a table Inserting row and columns Deleting rows and columns Resize rows and columns Merge or split cells Format table Table properties
Activities	Calendar, resume, degree plan

Inserting and formatting graphics

Tools	Skills
Drawing toolbar Picture toolbar	ClipArt WordArt Image from a file Editing graphics Create a watermark Margin notes Side bars Pull quote
Activities	Brochure

Technical documents

Tools	Skills
Insert menu	Special characters Date and time Equations Headers and footers Footnotes and endnotes Captions Index, table of contents, table of figures
Activities	Create a page in a math or science book.

Additional stuff

Templates and Wizards
Microsoft templates
Web pages
Macros