Word Processing Self-Assessment

Self-Assess your word processing skills. Click in the cell for the column Rate Yourself.
Enter the numbers 0-4. The highest score possible is 248.

• 0 - No skill 
• 1 - Able to do with assistance 
• 2 - Competent working independently 
• 3 - Advanced competency 
• 4 - Expert, can teach others

PowerPoint Presentation Software Skills List

I invite your feedback on this listing of Presentation software skills (PowerPoint, etc.)
Basic Presentation Skills
* Design a simple presentation
* Apply a template
* Insert a new slide
* Apply the use of different slide layouts
* Use spell-check
* Save a presentation
* Add shapes to a slide
* View a slide show
* Print a presentation

Intermediate Presentation Skills
* Customize the presentation menu
* Create handouts
* Add clip art to slides
* Add SmartArt to slides
* Move and resize objects
* Incorporate multimedia (audio, graphics, animation, and video) into slide design
* Modify multimedia used for presentations
* Demonstrate competency using two presentation software applications
* Save a presentation in file formats for use with other software applications
* Share/collaborate with others on presentation design
* Apply pedagogical principles to presentation design (Purpose, visual clarity, consistency, readability)

Advanced Presentation Skills
* Design on-screen navigation
* Customize presentation toolbars
* Embed/edit a spreadsheet
* Create a macro
* Add slide transitions
* Add slide sections
* Design slide animations
* Demonstrate advance text and graphic editing techniques
* Build custom slide masters
* Build custom handout masters
* Build custom notes masters
* Create a presentation template
* Publish and distribute presentations
* Demonstrate competency using more than two presentation software applications

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