Title of the Workshop
The tittle of the workshop is ‘One Day Workshop on Microsoft Word’
Overview
This workshop is a fully-fledged practical workshop that use the Microsoft Word 2016 to give techniques for today’s workplace
This workshop is a fully-fledged practical workshop that utilises Microsoft Word 2016 software to learn basic and advanced Word techniques for today’s workplace. Basic lessons helps to learn how to format text with fonts and colours, use bullets and indents, customize the Quick Access Toolbar, insert pictures and screenshots, set up page layout for margins and printing. Learning this will help to transform a blank page into a professional looking document.
Advance lessons helps to: create and update a Table of Contents, Mail Merge to labels, envelopes, form letters and emails; use styles to create consistently formatted documents; facilitate changing paragraph, character formatting, create and insert Quick Parts to reuse data and content; create documents with consistent standards; work with captions and footnotes; review a document; track changes, and work collaboratively using Google Drive and Dropbox. Learning these advanced Word techniques will help to create quality documents.
In completion a ‘Participation Certificate’ will be awarded IT Centre, Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna.
Target Group
This workshop is designed for school students in age 15 or above, school leavers from GCE Ordinary Level as well as GCE Advanced Level,students from undergraduates as well as postgraduates, business professionals, and workers from government and non-organisation.
Duration and Schedule
One day workshop, 8 Hours on Saturday – 9am to 5pm
Fee Per Participant
Rs 2750 for Students and Rs 3500 for workers/ staff
Medium of Instruction
This workshop is conducted in bilingual languages including English and Tamil. Participants can use both English and/or Tamil in the lecture discussions.
Method of Teaching and Learning
The workshop will be delivered in a combination of lectures, computer laboratory practical sessions, and group works.
Objectives of the workshop
The objective of the workshop is:
- To provide the knowledge of quality document creation.
- To provide the practical skill in using the Microsoft Word2016 software.
- To produce capable personnel in office applications, to the present job market.
- To produce capable personnel towork collaboratively.
Learning outcomes
After completing this workshop, the participants should be able to:
- manage paragraph and Font formatting using Tables, Graphs, Schedules, Images and Graphics.
- create and modify tables in order to organize and enhance data.
- automate tasks in Word and using Macros.
- create/modify Tables of Content.
- work with Styles.
- work efficiently with large documents.
- perform Mail Merges.
- working with references and citations.
- reviewing a document.
- work collaboratively in Word.
Course Outline
- Word Screen Elements
1.1 The Ribbon and Word Screen
1.2 Quick Access Toolbar
1.3 Navigating the Page
1.4 Your First Document
1.5 Formatting Fonts
1.6 Basic Letter Layout
1.7 Basic Cut, Copy, Paste
- Essential Formatting Knowledge – the Home Ribbon
2.1Styles Gallery
2.2 Format Text with Fonts and Colours
2.3 Format Painter
3.4 Practice with the FONT Group
2.5 Basic Paragraph Formats
2.6 Fun and Functional Paragraph Formats
2.7 Bullets and Numbering
2.8 Indents
2.9 Line Spacing
2.10 The Find/Replace Function
- The File Ribbon
3.1 File, New
3.2 File, Recent
3.3 File, Share
3.4 File, Info and Security Considerations
- The View Ribbon
4.1 Document Views
4.2 Navigation Pane
4.3 Show and Zoom Controls
4.4 Use Multiple Windows
- Intermediate Formatting Knowledge – the Insert Ribbon
5.1 Inserting Page Breaks and Blank Pages
5.2 Add a Cover Page
5.3 Working with Pages
5.4 Creating Tables
5.5 Inserting Pictures and Clip Art
5.6 Online Pics and 3D Models
5.6 Basic Use of Shapes
5.7 Screenshots
5.8 Headers and Footers
5.9 Page Numbers and File Location Notes
5.10 Word Art
5.11 Symbols
- Essential Page Layout Ribbon
6.1 Margins
6.2 Paper Orientation and Size
6.3 Using Columns
6.4 Paragraph Spacing
6.5 Printing
- Mailings Ribbon
7.1 Envelopes and Labels
7.2 Mail Merge to Labels
7.3 Mail Merge to Envelopes
7.4 Mail Merge to Form Letters
7.5 Mail Merge to Emails
7.6 Mail Merge Tips from Experience
- References Ribbon
8.1 Table of Contents
8.2 Update the Table of Contents
8.3 Mark Entry for Table of Contents
8.4 Footnotes
8.5 Citations and Bibliography
8.6 Using Captions
8.7 Create an Index
- Custom Styles
9.1 Create and Apply a Style
9.2 Rename, Modify and Remove Styles
9.3 Reveal Formatting
9.4 Selection Tool and Format Pane
- Review Ribbon
10.1 Proofing
10.2 Language and Translation
10.3 Comments
10.4 Track Changes
10.5 Compare Documents
- MS Word collaboration