General Information

Course Duration
4 hours

Audience
Anyone wishing to become expert at using Word; students wishing to become MOUS certified at Expert or Master level

Prerequisites
Familiarity with any of the Windows user environments and completion of Microsoft Office 2000: Beginning Word; Microsoft Office 2000: Intermediate Word; and Microsoft Office 2000: Advanced Word or equivalent familiarity with Office 97

Topics Covered

• Mail merging
• Performing a mail merge
• Hands-on: Creating a data source
• Hands-on: Merging document and data source
• Selecting, sorting, and output
• Hands-on: Opening a data source
• Hands-on: Selecting and sorting data records
• Forms
• Hands-on: Creating a form
• Fields
• Hands-on: Inserting fields
• Using macros
• Hands-on: Recording a macro
• Hands-on: Editing a macro
• Customizing toolbars
• Hands-on: Creating a toolbar
• Comments
• Hands-on: Inserting a comment
• Securing documents
• Hands-on: Protecting a document
• Version control
• Hands-on: Tracking changes to a document
• Round tripping and templates

Course Aim

To provide advanced users of Word 2000 with skills in using mail merge, forms, and macros and in workgroup editing

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, the student should be able to

• create the main document for form letters, mailing labels, envelopes, and a catalog
  
  
• understand and use the mail merge facility
  
  
• create and modify a form
  
  
• add controls and insert fields to forms
  
  
• create and apply a macro
  
  
• copy, rename, and delete a macro
  
  
• protect a document from unauthorized access
  
  
• track changes to a document
  
  
• round trip documents from HTML
  
  
• set default file locations for workgroup editing