Word 2007 Introduction
Class Length:  6-hours

Lesson 1: Creating a Basic Document

• Explore the User Interface
• Open and View a Document
• Customize the Word Environment
• Obtain Help
• Enter Text
• Save a Document
• Preview and Print a Document

Lesson 2: Editing a Document

• Navigate and Select Text in a Document
• Insert, Delete, or Rearrange Text
• Undo Changes
• Search and Replace Text

Lesson 3: Formatting Text

• Change Font Appearance
• Highlight Text

Lesson 4: Formatting Paragraphs

• Set Tabs to Align Text
• Control Paragraph Layout
• Add Borders and Shading
• Apply Styles
• Create Lists
• Manage Formatting

Lesson 5: Adding Tables

• Create a Table
• Modify the Table Structure
• Format a Table
• Convert Text into a Table or Tables to Text

Lesson 6: Controlling Page Appearance

• Control Page Layout
• Apply a Page Border and Color
• Add Watermarks
• Add Headers and Footers

Lesson 8: Proofing a Document

• Check Spelling, Grammar, and Word Count
• Enhance Textual Meaning Using the Thesaurus
• Customize AutoCorrect Options

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Word 2007 Intermediate
Class Length:  6-hours

Lesson 1: Managing Lists

• Sort a List
• Renumber a List
• Customize Lists

Lesson 2: Customizing Tables and Charts

• Sort Table Data
• Control Cell Layout
• Perform Calculations in a Table
• Create Charts

Lesson 3: Customizing Formatting with Styles and Themes

• Create or Modify a Text Style
• Create a Custom List or Table Style
• Apply Default and Customized Document Themes

Lesson 4: Modifying Pictures

• Resize a Picture
• Adjust Picture Appearance Settings
• Wrap Text Around a Picture

Lesson 5: Creating Customized Graphic Elements

• Create Text Boxes and Pull Quotes
• Draw Shapes
• Add WordArt and Other Special Effects to Text
• Create Complex Illustrations with SmartArt

Lesson 6: Inserting Content Using Quick Parts

• Insert Building Blocks
• Create Building Blocks
• Modify Building Blocks
• Insert Fields Using Quick Parts

Lesson 7: Controlling Text Flow

• Control Paragraph Flow
• Insert Section Breaks
• Insert Columns
• Link Text Boxes to Control Text Flow

Lesson 8: Using Templates to Automate Document Creation

• Create a Document Based on a Template
• Create a Template

Lesson 9: Automating Mail Merges

• Perfom a Mail Merge
• Mail Merge Envelopes and Labels
• Use Word to Create a Data Source

Lesson 10: Using Macros to Automate Tasks

• Perform a Task Automatically Using a Macro
• Create a Macro

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Word 2007 Advanced
Class Length:  6-hours

Lesson 1: Using Microsoft Office Word 2007 with Other Programs

• Link to a Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Worksheet
• Link a Chart to Excel Data
• Send a Document Outline to Microsoft Office PowerPoint
• Extract Text from a Fax
• Send a Document as an Email Message

Lesson 2:  Collaborating on Documents

• Modify User Information
• Send a Document for Review
• Review a Document
• Compare Document Changes
• Merge Document Changes
• Review Track Changes and Comments

Lesson 3:  Managing Document Versions

• Create a New Version of a Document
• Compare Document Versions
• Merge Document Versions

Lesson 4:  Adding Reference Marks and Notes

• Insert Bookmarks
• Insert Footnotes and Endnotes
• Add Captions
• Add Hyperlinks
• Add Cross-References
• Add Citations and a Bibliography

Lesson 5:  Making Long Documents Easier to Use

• Insert Blank and Cover Pages
• Insert an Index
• Insert Table of Figures
• Insert Table of Authorities
• Insert Table of Contents
• Create a Master Document
• Automatically Summarize a Document

Lesson 6:  Securing a Document

• Update a Document's Properties
• Hide Text
• Remove Personal Information from a Document
• Set Formatting and Editing Restrictions
• Add a Digital Signature to a Document
• Set a Password for a Document
• Restrict Document Access

Appendix A:  Creating Forms

• Add Form Fields to a Document
• Protect a Form
• Save Form Data as Plain Text
• Automate a Form

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Word 2007 New Features
Class Length:  3-Hours

Lesson 1: Exploring the Word Environment

• Explore the User Interface
• Work With the Ribbon
• Work with Contextual Tabs
• Use the Word Galleries
• Customize the Word Interface

Lesson 2: Creating Professional-Looking Documents

• Apply Styles
• Apply Document Themes
• Add Building Blocks
• Work with Illustrations
• Build an Equation
• Add Citations and a Bibliography

 Lesson 3: Finalizing Documents

• Compare Reviewed Documents
• Inspect Documents
• Apply Digital Signatures
• Save a Document

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Create Legal Forms Using Microsoft Office Word 2007
Class Length:  3-Hours

Lesson 1:  Creating Legal Forms

• Introduction to Word Forms
• Create a Printed Legal Form
• Create Legal Forms That Users Complete in Word
• Insert Fields Using Quick Parts

Lesson 2:  Managing Documents

• Create Linked Forms
• Create Master Documents and Subdocuments
• Insert the Table of Contents
• Insert the Table of Authorities

Lesson 3:  Protecting Forms

• Protect a Legal Form
• Distribute Forms

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Word 2007 New Features
Class Length:  90-Minutes

• Work with the Office button and Ribbon in Word
• Create a new document from scratch or from a template
• Open a document created in a previous version and save it to 2007 format, if appropriate
• Understand Word's new file formats
• Work with the new Full Screen Reading view
• View portions of the same document in two separate windows
• Use the status bar to view information about a document
• View document properties in the Document Information Panel
• Add a cover page to a document
• Insert clip art or shapes in a document
• Format your text using Quick Styles and style sets
• Change the look of an entire document by applying a theme
• Use Building Blocks to add reusable content such as AutoText entries, headers and footers, cover pages, and watermarks to a document
• Insert a Quick Table containing sample content
• Format a table using the Table Tools tabs
• Create a chart in a Word document

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Word 2007 Getting Started
Class Length:  90-Minutes

• Learn what you can do with Microsoft Word
• Understand word processing features
• Start Word and create a new document
• Understand the Word interface, including the Ribbon, Office button, and Quick Access toolbar
• Learn how to move around in a document using the mouse and keyboard
• Make changes to documents
• Save documents to your hard drive or a shared network drive
• Open existing Word documents
• Format text within your documents
• Change the paragraph alignment and spacing
• Move and copy text within your document
• Use spelling and grammar check
• Print documents
• Use online Help to get quick answers to your Word questions

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Word 2007 Document Formatting I
Class Length:  90-Minutes

• Change the style and size of document text
• Apply bold, italics, and underlining, as well as other text formats
• Adjust the amount of space between characters
• Change the default font and size for all new documents your crate
• Indent individual paragraphs without changing the margins for the entire document
• Use tabs to align and position information consistently
• Adjust the amount of space above, below, or between the lines within a paragraph
• Apply borders and shading to words, paragraphs, or pages in your document
• Copy formatting applied in one portion of your document to text in another location
• Create numbered or bulleted lists
• Force a line break within a paragraph or list
• Adjust where page breaks occur in a document
• Change the orientation of the page from portrait to landscape
• Change margins to allow more or less information to fit on a page

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Word 2007 Document Formatting II
Class Length:  90-Minutes

• Add page numbers to a document
• Change the paper size to print on non-letter-sized paper
• Use section breaks to format one portion of a document differently from other portions
• Change the page orientation for specific parts of a document
• Format a document in columns
• Add a drop cap character at the beginning of a paragraph
• Insert clip art and other graphics within a document
• Add a text or picture watermark to display behind your text
• Insert text boxes to draw attention to important information
• Format text using Quick Styles and style sets
• Apply and customize a theme
• Record information about the document in its properties
• Add a cover page to a document

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Word 2007 Styles
Class Length:  90-Minutes

• Understand style types and the benefits of using styles
• Apply Word's built-in styles from the Quick Styles gallery, the Styles Task Pane, or the Apply Styles Task Pane
• Work with Quick Styles sets
• Create new styles
• Modify or delete existing styles
• Assign keyboard shortcuts to styles
• Clear styles and formatting from text
• Choose how styles display in the Styles Task Pane
• Copy styles from one document or template to another
• Use the Style Area to view the styles in use in a document
• Compare text with similar formatting
• Understand how styles and manual formatting interact

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Word 2007 Templates
Class Length:  90-Minutes

• Understand templates and the types of features and content they can include
• Use one of Word's built-in templates to create a new document
• Customize a built-in template to suit your needs
• Create a new templates based on an existing document or from a blank document
• Add headers and footers to a template
• Insert content controls for information that may change each time you create or update documents based on the template
• Use styles within templates
• Access features from another document or template
• Delete a template you no longer need

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Word 2007 Tables
Class Length:  90-Minutes

• Create a table to organize rows and columns of information
• Draw custom tables with cells of various sizes
• Add or delete rows and/or columns in a tale
• Change the height of rows and width of columns to accommodate the contents of each cell
• Use Word's AutoFit options to adjust the columns and rows within a table automatically
• Change the alignment of a table within the page
• Move a table to another location
• Wrap text around a table
• Change the horizontal and vertical alignment of cell contents
• Change the cell margins and spacing
• Merge or split cells as needed
• Nest one table within another table
• In long tables, control where page breaks occur and ensure the appropriate column headings display at the top of each page
• Apply one of Word's table styles to enhance the look of a table quickly and easily
• Add borders and shading to all or part of a table
• Sort text within a table alphabetically, numerically, or chronologically
• Convert existing text into a table
• Perform calculations in a table
• Create charts based on table data

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Word 2007 Forms
Class Length:  90-Minutes

• Understand what forms are and why to use them
• Plan a form
• Create a template for the form
• Add content controls and legacy form fields to a form
• Customize form files
• Protect and save a form
• Complete a form in Word
• Print a form
• Modify a form after savings and protecting it
• Calculate form fields automatically
• Repeat a form field result in another location

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Word 2007 Numbered, Bulleted, & Multilevel Lists
Class Length:  90-Minutes

• Understand which type of lists to use when
• Customize a number or bullet format
• Continue or restart a list
• Include unnumbered or unbelleted lines within a list
• Create numbered or bulleted lists automatically
• Create a multilevel (or outline) list
• Use multilevel list styles to number the headings in a document
• Create and use list styles

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Word 2007 Formatting Long Documents
Class Length:  90-Minutes

• Create headers and footers to display important information on each page of the document
• Display a different header and footer in different portions of a document
• Change the page numbering format for specific sections of a document
• Use alignment tabs to ensure that information in the header remains in the same position relative to the margin if you change the margins
• Use footnotes and endnotes to further explain text within a document
• Use Outline view to reorganize a document or plan a new document

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Word 2007 Tools for Navigating Long Documents
Class Length:  90-Minutes

• Navigate documents on-screen with the Document Map, Thumbnails, or Full Screen Reading view
• Split the screen to view two different areas of the document at once
• Create and use bookmarks to find specific locations quickly
• Cross-reference other pages in your document (and ensure that the page numbers update automatically when necessary)
• Create an index to help readers find specific information quickly and easily
• Add captions to the graphics or tales in the document and create a table of figures to list all of those graphics or tables
• Create a tale of contents to list the topics covered in the document

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Word 2007 Mail Merge
Class Length:  90-Minutes

• Learn how you can save time by using the mail merge function to merge variable information into a static main document
• Create the main document to use in a mail merge
• Create or select the data source for the merge (the file containing the variable information).
• Insert an address block, greeting line, or other merge fields into the main document
• View how the merged data will look within the documents
• Select specific data to be merged
• Sort information before merging
• Merge the main document with the data source to create the individual documents or e-mail messages
• Create envelopes and mailing labels
• Create a directory of contacts or product information

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Word 2007 Tracking Changes
Class Length:  90-Minutes

• Understand what the Track Changes tool is
• Learn to insert, navigate between, and delete comments
• Learn how to edit a document while Track Changes is enabled
• Customize how comments and tracked changes display on the screen
• Accept and reject tracked changes
• Combine documents to see how one version of a document compares to another
• View documents side by side
• Choose whether revision marks display on a printed copy
• Insert comments and track changes in Excel
• Insert comments in PowerPoint

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Word 2007 Tips & Shortcuts
Class Length:  90-Minutes

• Sort lists of information
• Insert symbols and special characters
• Create hyperlinks to jump to other documents or Web sites
• Insert sample text, dates, and signature lines
• Look up words in a dictionary, thesaurus, and other reference sources
• Use AutoCorrect to correct common errors
• Create Quick Parts to store commonly used text or objects
• Find specific text or formatting and replace it with something else
• Protect documents from unauthorized viewing or editing
• Save time with keyboard shortcuts

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Word 2007 Automating Tasks with Macros
Class Length:  90-Minutes

• Learn what a macro is and what kind of procedures you can store in a macro
• Open a document that contains macros
• Use the macro recorder to record a series of steps into a macro module
• Run a macro you have recorded
• Assign a macro to a shortcut key or Quick Access toolbar button
• Modify a macro
• Enhance a macro with VBA
• Copy macros to other documents or templates
• Save documents that contain macros
• Delete macros you no longer need

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