MICROSOFT® WORD 2010 CORE SKILLS CERTIFICATION

Description

Course Series

This Microsoft Word 2010 Core coursewareis one of nine courses in CCI’s Microsoft Office Specialist 2010 series. Other courses available in the series include:

Instructor Resources are available and are produced specifically to help and assist an instructor in preparing to deliver the course using the CCI materials. Contact your coordinator or administrator, or call your CCI Account Manager for information on how to access these resources.

Course Prerequisites

This course is designed for students who are familiar with personal computers, using a keyboard and using a mouse. The course assumes that students have completed the Microsoft Windows course or have equivalent Microsoft Windows knowledge and experience.

Course Objectives

This course book teaches the skills you will need to successfully complete the Word 2010 Core exam. These skill sets are introduced using a fictional company named Tolano Adventures, a travel service that is a department within Tolano Environmental Consulting. Tolano Adventures offers tours to the public that are friendly to the environment.
You will use Word to create a variety of business documents, including letters, memos, and proposals. As you begin to build your skills, you will then create a variety of flyers and other promotional materials as well as explore different ways to share the information with internal and external customers.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Use the Word interface to access commands and features to complete specific tasks
• Use Backstage to save, open, close or switch between documents
• Manipulate the document by selecting text to perform editing tasks such as copy and paste, or find and replace
• Apply simple formatting to characters and paragraphs
• Set tabs to align text in columns
• Apply bullets or numbers to simple lists
• Apply multi-level bullets or numbers for longer lists
• Create and manipulate outlines to draft topic flow
• Apply page formatting such as changing the margins, paper size, or orientation for a document
• Use specific types of breaks to apply different page formats in a document
• Apply headers or footers to a document
• Apply backgrounds or themes for online documents
• Proof your documents for spelling or grammar errors, as well as recognize contextual errors
• Use AutoCorrect to store common spelling errors you make, or to store items Word will complete for you
• Use comments as reminders or to share information in a document with others
• Use Backstage to preview or print a document
• Create or draw a table, then manipulate the appearance of the table using formatting or table options
• Insert, format, or arrange pictures, shapes, text boxes, WordArt, or SmartArt illustrations
• Use documents to merge information for mass mailings
• Use QuickParts to assist with frequent-use items such as salutations or inserting and formatting footers
• Navigate in a document using hyperlinks, bookmarks or a table of contents using footnotes or endnotes to reference items in a document
• Manage versions of a shared document
• Protect your document through passwords or restricting access to change parts of the document