Friday, April 2, 2010

Word Processing Skills - Need Your Input

It appears that the blogger site had significant problems most of today.  If you had an RSS feed to this blog, you probably received an odd error.  I have been unable to post or edit all day.
Today I worked on identifying basic, intermediate, and advanced word processing skills.  Will note them below.  I am very interested in comments and suggestions to improve the list.

Basic Word Processing Skills

  • Create a new document
  • Use the menu and quick access toolbar
  • Customize the quick access toolbar
  • Use the ruler
  • Obtain the word count information for a document
  • Add basic text Format - font size, color, style
  • Alignment – center, left, right, justify
  • Format lines, words, and spaces - Spacing – choosing and Change line spacing, bullets
  • Use themes & styles
  • Move text - cut/paste, copy/paste, drag/drop
  • Create bookmarks
  • Insert hyperlinks (URL, email addresses & other places in the document)
  • Insert clip art
  • Make changes – undo/redo
  • Use search & replace
  • Use tab key to indent
  • Identify/correct spelling and grammatical errors
  • Create headers & footers
  • Insert page numbers
  • Use Help
  • Check spelling and grammar
  • Name documents
  • Save a document to Word and other file formats (.doc, .rtf, txt, PDF)
  • Print documents using print preview,
  • Change printer settings

Intermediate Word Processing Skills

  • Create an outline
  • Create new documents from a template
  • Design your own custom template
  • Modify text font style, color, size, and case
  • Modify text alignment
  • Make changes – Add, delete, & move text
  • Create and format text (styles, shadow effects, shape, and arrangement of)
  • Modify themes & styles
  • Change paragraph settings – hanging indent, first line indent
  • Create/modify the table using a table auto-header
  • Change margins & bullets
  • Use search & replace
  • Use mail merge
  • Create letters, envelopes, & labels with a wizard
  • Insert line breaks
  • Modify the menus and toolbars
  • Autocorrect & Styles
  • Check readability statistics
  • Collaborative skills
    • Use the review tool
    • Use Skydrive for file collaboration
  • Modify graphics – clip art, use drawing to modify graphics, position graphics
  • Use the bibliographic manager to create citations, insert citations into a paper, and to create an associated reference list
  • Create a paper in APA citation style, abstract, & a reference page

Advanced Word Processing Skills

  • Use desktop publishing tools to create newspapers & brochures
  • Create forms
  • Link and embed file – presentations and spreadsheets
  • Create custom themes
  • Create long documents – connect several documents into one
  • Create lists of figures, captions, table of contents, index, cross-index
  • Add a digital signature
  • Use formulas
  • Create macros
  • Add line numbers
  • Add a watermark

2 comments :

  1. Suggestions -

    Beginner skills
    *know & apply good formatting techniques 1)tab/indent for alignment 2) spelling/gramar checks 3) page #s 4) simple, easy to read font 5) print prev before printing 6) include doc name & location in footer

    Advanced skills
    *Track comments, corrections and changes.

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  2. Thank you Tracy. Good suggestions.

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