Word 2000 An Advanced Course for Students
Sue Coles, Jenny Rowley

This is one of a series of course books for students, teaching the skills required to make full and effective use of modern software. It can be used as a course text for group learning, or individually for independent learning. The series covers the key Microsoft Office 2000 components of Access, Excel and Word, and for each of these applications there is an introductory and an advanced book. This advanced book does not assume any previous knowledge of Word 2000, but it introduces the concepts and functions of Word at a rapid pace. The approach of the book is that the user will be able to learn by doing. Each topic includes exercises to complete which illustrate the theory and help to reinforce learning.

Key Features:

• Progress through the course topic by topic
• Clear learning objectives
• Tasks help to embed learning
• Theory illustrated with practical examples

Contents:

• Creating basic documents
• Working with documents
• Text formatting
• Paragraph formatting
• Indents and bullets
• Rearranging text
• Spelling and autotext
• Wizards and templates
• Text layout - tab stops
• Creating a table
• Using tables to create forms
• Applying borders and shading to text
• Longer documents
• Styles
• Creating a chart
• Working with the chart data sheet
• Choosing chart type, formatting chart text
• Formatting chart components
• Using the drawing toolbar
• Grouping shapes, using clipart, inserting pictures
• Text and image positioning
• Columns
• Mail merge
• Introducing web page creation

Author:

Sue Coles, Manchester Metropolitan University
Jenny Rowley, Edge Hill College of Higher Education