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
Suggestions -
ReplyDeleteBeginner 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.
Thank you Tracy. Good suggestions.
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