MICROSOFT WORD
- Use word processing software to generate professional healthcare documents.
Learning Objectives
Introduction to Word
- Describe the features of the Word document screen.
- List the default Word settings.
- Identify the different types of cursors/mouse pointers.
- Describe keyboard shortcuts.
- Describe how to select content.
- Describe the File tab and Backstage view.
- Discuss how to create a new file from a template.
- Demonstrate how to open, save, rename, print, and close a file.
Basic Formatting in Word
- Describe the tools and options on the Home Tab Ribbon.
- Demonstrate how to cut, copy, and paste text, along with using the format painter.
- Demonstrate how to format the font, including using the Format Painter.
- Demonstrate how to use the spelling and grammar and thesaurus tools.
Formatting Text in Word
- Describe line and paragraph spacing.
- Describe how to format documents using alignment, bullets, and indents.
- Discuss the steps required to apply borders and shading.
- Explain how to apply and use headings and other styles.
- Describe how to use the Find and Replace tools.
Formatting Documents in Word
- Discuss how to insert and remove headers, footers, and page numbers.
- Describe how to set up pages, as well as the margins, orientation, size, and columns.
- Describe how to use page and section breaks.
- Explain how to use indents, spacing, and tabs.
Citations, Tables, and Mail Merge
- Describe how to create a citation.
- Discuss how to insert a bibliography, reference list, work cited section, footnotes, and endnotes.
- Explain three ways to create a table.
- Describe how to add and delete columns and rows.
- Describe how to merge cells, split a cell, and change the size of rows and columns.
- Discuss options for text alignment in tables.
- Describe how to apply, modify, and remove a table style.
- Describe the Mail Merge tool.
- Demonstrate how to use the Mail Merge tool.
Formatting Objects in Word
- Describe how to insert a cover page, a blank page, and a page break.
- Discuss how to insert and format a picture using the Picture Format contextual tab.
- Explain how to insert and format shapes, WordArt, icons, 3D Models, SmartArt, and charts.
- Describe how to apply a theme to a document.
