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Course Outline

Introduction to text editors

  • Capabilities of computer text processing
  • Creating and saving documents
  • Protecting documents with a password
  • Creating backup copies of documents
  • Quick and precise navigation within the document

Styles

  • The importance of styles for maintaining consistency, clarity, and visual appeal
  • Style groups and their practical application
  • Quickly adjusting basic text formatting
  • Formatting titles and using typographic elements to distinguish them
  • General rules for achieving clarity and aesthetic quality in texts

Bullets and Lists

  • Using bullets and numbered lists
  • Maintaining a consistent appearance for lists throughout the document
  • Quickly changing the appearance of list items
  • Reordering or changing the level of items within a list
  • Changing the numbering style (e.g., Roman numerals or lowercase letters)
  • Customising bullet styles

Tabs

  • Types and applications of tabs
  • Inserting and adjusting tab positions
  • Using tabs in correspondence (e.g., aligning dates to the right margin in document headers or creating dotted lines for handwritten signatures)
  • Aligning columns of numbers

Tables

  • Structure and usage of tables
  • Inserting tables
  • Enhancing table aesthetics and clarity (e.g., adjusting font sizes, borders, internal margins, and cell background colours)
  • Modifying tables (e.g., adding or removing rows and columns, creating headers spanning multiple columns)

Headers and Footers

  • Practical applications
  • Setting a unique header or footer for the first page
  • Using automatic page numbering (including dynamic fields such as "Page X of Y")
  • Inserting document metadata on all pages (e.g., title, author, or update date)
  • Customising font type and size for page numbers independently from the rest of the header or footer content
  • Using separator lines in headers or footers to visually separate content

Mail Merge

  • Applications and mechanisms of mail merge
  • Preparing data sources (e.g., address databases) and main documents
  • Performing print merges
  • Printing labels and addresses on envelopes

Requirements

Knowledge of Windows.

 14 Hours

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