ICDL – Perform Advanced Word Processing Functions (Advanced Word 2016/2019) (17 hrs)

• Apply advanced text, paragraph, column and table formatting. Convert text to a table and vice versa
• Work with referencing features like footnotes, endnotes and captions. Create tables of contents, indexes and cross-references
• Enhance productivity by using fields, forms and templates
• Apply advanced mail merge techniques and work with automation features, such as macros
• Use linking and embedding features to integrate data
• Collaborate on and review documents. Work with master documents and sub-documents. Apply document security features
• Work with watermarks, sections, and headers and footers within a document

1. Formatting

Text

• Apply text wrapping options for graphical objects
• Use find and replace options
• Use paste special options

Paragraphs

• Apply line spacing within paragraphs
• Apply, remove paragraph pagination options
• Apply, modify outline numbering in multi-level lists

Styles

• Create, modify, update a character style
• Create, modify, update a paragraph style

Columns

• Apply multiple column layouts. Change number of columns in a column layout
• Change column widths and spacing. Insert, remove lines between columns
• Insert, delete a column break

Tables

• Apply a table autoformat/table style
• Merge, split cells in a table
• Change cell margins, alignment, text direction
• Automatically repeat heading row(s) at the top of each page
• Allow, do not allow row(s) to break across page
• Sort data by one column, by multiple columns at the same time
• Convert delimited text to a table
• Convert a table to text

2. Referencing

Captions, footnotes and endnotes

• Add a caption above, below a graphical object, table
• Add, delete a caption label
• Change caption number format
• Insert, modify footnotes, endnotes
• Convert a footnote to an endnote. Convert an endnote to a footnote

Reference tables and indexes

• Create, update a table of contents based on specified heading styles and formats
• Create, update a table of figures based on specified styles and formats
• Mark an index. Delete a marked index entry
• Create, update an index based on marked index entries

Bookmarks and cross-references

• Add, delete a bookmark
• Create, delete a cross-reference
• Add a cross-reference to an index entry

3. Enhancing productivity

Using fields

• Insert, delete fields
• Insert a sum formula field code in a table
• Change field number format
• Lock, unlock, update a field

Forms, templates

• Create, modify a form using available form field options
• Add help text to a form field
• Protect, unprotect a form
• Modify a template

Mail merge

• Edit, sort a mail merge recipient list
• Insert ask, if… Then… Else fields
• Merge a document with a recipient list using given merge criteria

Linking, embedding

• Insert, edit, remove a hyperlink
• Link data from a document, application and display as an object, icon
• Update, break a link
• Embed data into a document as an object
• Edit, delete embedded data

Automation

• Apply automatic text formatting options
• Create, modify, delete automatic text correction entries
• Create, modify, insert, delete automatic text entries
• Record a simple macro
• Run a macro
• Assign a macro to a custom button on a toolbar

4. Collaborative editing

Tracking and reviewing

• Turn on, off track changes. Track changes in a document using a specified display view
• Accept, reject changes in a document
• Insert, edit, delete, show, hide comments/notes
• Compare and merge documents

Master documents

• Create a new master document by creating sub documents from headings
• Insert, remove a subdocument in a master document
• Use text outline/navigator options

Security

• Add, remove password protection for a document
• Protect a document to only allow tracked changes or comments

5. Prepare outputs

Sections

• Create, modify, delete section breaks in a document
• Change page orientation, page vertical alignment, margins for sections of a document

Document setup

• Apply different headers and footers to sections, first page, odd and even pages in a document
• Add, modify, remove a watermark in a document

Participants go through a structured curriculum supplemented with hands-on exercises on computers.

This course is intended for participants with ICDL certification and/or previous experience using computers and common software applications.

Prerequisites

Participants are assumed to:

• Have completed ICDL – Perform Word Processing Functions

Duration : 2 days (17 hrs)
Time : 8:30am to 6:00pm

With effect from 1 Jan 2024

(A course in partnership with James Cook Institute Pte. Ltd. [formerly known as Eagle Infotech] UEN198802365N)