Word 2021 – Mastering the essentials

Discover Word, master text input, formatting and layout. Add tables, images or charts to your documents. You will also be able to conceive and create direct mail campaigns.

Target audience:
Any beginners or users with basic knowledge who wish to master Word’s essential commands.

Level:
No knowledge of Word is necessary. The user just needs to be acquainted with using the keyboard and mouse.

MEDIAplus elearning
This module offers interactive training consisting of 55 training videos, 55 exercises and 6 additional resources.
Word 2021 – Level 1: Essential skills

• Get started in Word
  • You need to know: About your word processor
  • Opening a document
  • Overview of the environment
  • Moving around in a document
  • Nonprinting characters
  • You need to know: Text made easy
  • Text input
  • Managing paragraphs
  • You need to know: Selecting, copying and moving
  • Selecting and deleting text
  • Undoing, redoing, repeating an action
  • You need to know: Saving files
  • Saving a document
  • Creating a new document
• Apply basic text formatting
  • You need to know: Formatting characters
  • Quick style
  • Theme
  • Character formatting
  • Character colour
  • Character case
  • Character font and size
• Arrange paragraphs on the page
  • Paragraph indents
  • Paragraph alignment
  • Paragraph spacing
  • Line Spacing
  • Borders and shading
  • Moving text
  • Copying text
• Page layout, pagination and printing
  • Page layout
  • Display zoom
  • Printing
  • Page breaks
  • You need to know: Headers and footers
  • Headers and footers
  • Page numbering
• Managing tabs and lists
  • Setting a tab stop
  • Tab stops with a leader line
  • Managing tab stops
  • Numbered and bulleted lists
  • Customised bulleted list
  • Customised numbered list
  • List levels
  • List styles
  • Line breaks
  • Hanging indents
• Learn some new skills
  • Using Word’s Help
  • Inserting a document, a cover page or a blank page
  • Hyphenation
  • Nonbreaking space or hyphen
  • Inserting special characters
  • Character spacing and position
  • Finding text or formatting
  • Replacing text or formatting
  • Copying formats
  • The Immersive Reader
  • Proofing the document
  • Managing a custom dictionary
  • AutoCorrect settings
  • Finding synonyms
  • Search and translation
  • Views and windows

MEDIAplus elearning
This module offers interactive training consisting of 41 training videos, 41 exercises and 1 additional resource.
Word 2021 – Level 2: Intermediate skills

• Avoid repetitive typing
  • Creating an AutoText
  • Using an AutoText
  • Managing AutoTexts
  • System date and time
• Create a table
  • Creating a table
  • Text input and moving around in a table
  • Selecting and inserting rows and columns
  • Deleting rows and columns
  • Table styles
  • Formatting cells
  • Row height and column width
  • Cell and table alignment
  • Merging or splitting a table’s cells
  • Converting text to table or table to text
  • Sorting a table, a list or paragraphs
  • Calculations in a table
• Add graphic objects to your texts
  • Drawing an object
  • Managing drawing objects: sizing, rotating, adjusting
  • Managing drawing objects: moving and copying
  • Formatting a drawing object
  • Text in a drawing object or WordArt
  • Formatting text in an object or WordArt
  • Inserting a picture
  • Managing a picture
  • Positioning and wrapping a picture
  • Captions and table of illustrations
  • Document background
  • Charts
  • Inserting objects from other applications
  • Diagrams
• Make letters – or mailshots – simple
  • Creating envelopes or address labels
  • You need to know: Mail merge
  • Associating a list of recipients with a mail merge document
  • Inserting mail merge fields
  • Running a mail merge
  • Editing the recipients
  • Adding and deleting recipients
  • Sorting a list of recipients
  • Selecting the records to print
  • Conditional text in a mail merge
  • Preparing labels via the mail merge
  • Fields for variable data

Additional book
This module includes digital course material.
Word 2021 – Reference book

Additional MEDIAplus elearning content
This module offers interactive training consisting of 45 training videos, 45 exercises and 4 additional resources.
Word 2021 – Level 3: Advanced skills