Microsoft Word Course: Level 1

Improve your work skills by learning to use Microsoft Word with our Microsoft Office training courses online & in Sydney.

On this Microsoft Word course in Sydney, you will learn to produce and share professional documents, confidently layout publications, tables, pictures and other graphics, or create indexes and mail merges. Taking advantage of advanced features like forms and fields, you will track changes, protect documents and write macros to automate your documents.

With Microsoft Word, you can collaborate in real-time, share your documents with the click of a button to invite others to edit in real-time or add comments plus. Undertaking this Microsoft Word course in Sydney will set you up for the more advanced features of this ubiquitous program. This introductory short course will give you the core skills to use Microsoft Word and teach you how the application works with others in the Microsoft Office suite, both on desktop and cloud-based apps.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this Microsoft Word course, you will have enhanced your career prospects by:

• Create and work with new documents and page sizes
• Cut and copy information within and between documents
• Use a range of font formatting techniques
• Insert and work with pictures in a Word document
• Use the Mail Merge Wizard to perform mail merges.

Course content

What will be covered in this Microsoft Word course?

Getting Familiar with Word

• Recognise and work with the Word environment
• Use Word’s Ribbon to access commands
• Use shortcut menus and the Quick Access toolbar to easily perform actions
• Add command buttons to the Quick Access toolbar

Your First Document

• Create documents in Word
• Type text, numbers and dates
• Check spelling and grammar
• Make basic changes
• Save your document and save an existing document
• Print a document
• Safely close a document

Working with a Document

• Understand the open dialogue box
• Open an existing document and navigate through the document
• Page zooming
• Show the ruler and paragraph marks
• Count words in your document

Viewing Documents

• View multiple pages and split the window
• Open a new window
• Understand and change document views

Work with Text

• Select text using the mouse and keyboard
• Delete text
• Use undo and redo
• Understand and use find and replace

Cut, Copy and Paste

• Understand cut, copy and paste
• Perform cut, copy and paste using various techniques
• Use the clipboard task pane to streamline cut, copy and paste

Text Appearance

• Understand font formatting and the font dialogue box
• Work with live preview
• Change fonts and font sizes using various techniques
• Apply everyday features such as bold, italics and underline to text
• Highlight text, change text colour and change case
• Use the format painter to match and correct formatting
• Clear font formatting

Work with Paragraphs and Pages

• Understand paragraph formatting and the paragraph dialogue box
• Understand and apply text alignment
• Change line and paragraph spacing and control indents
• Create a bulleted list and add bullets to existing paragraphs
• Create a numbered list and add numbering to existing paragraphs
• Create a multilevel list and change numbering levels
• Remove bullets or numbering from a list
• Apply borders and shading
• Change margins, page orientation and paper size
• Insert and remove page breaks
• Insert, format and remove page numbers

Tabs and Tables

• Use, create and edit tabs using various techniques
• Understand and create tables
• Type text in a table
• Select and edit table elements using various techniques
• Add design elements such as borders and shading

Pictures

• Insert pictures from local and online locations
• Select, move, resize and crop pictures
• Applying text wrapping
• Apply picture styles to frame your pictures

Perform a Mail Merge

• Understand the mail merge process
• Create a recipient list and starting document
• Start the mail merge wizard and insert mail merge fields
• Preview the merged documents
• Complete the merge

Print Documents

• Understand printing options, quick print and print preview
• Select a printer
• Print part of a document and change the number of print copies

Help in Word

• Access and use the help window
• Use tell me help

Intended audience

Who is this Microsoft Word course for?

This course is designed for students looking to upskill and gain proficiency in Microsoft Word. It is specifically tailored for beginners, so no prior knowledge of Microsoft Word is required. However, a basic understanding of computers is assumed, including familiarity with computer operating systems, file management, and basic navigation skills.

Course venue

Rozelle Campus

2A Gordon Street, Rozelle NSW 2039 (corner of Gordon St & Victoria Rd in the grounds of St. Joseph's Church)

Course materials

What to bring to class

• A USB to save your work and handouts

Additional information

Please note the following: 

• We have 8 Windows and 6 Apple computers available in this class. We do not reserve computers for students so arrive slightly early if using a certain type of machine is important to you.