Microsoft® Office Word 2021: Part 1
These days, most people take electronic word processing for granted. While we may still write out our grocery lists with pen and paper, we expect to use a computer to create the majority of our documents. It's impossible to avoid word-processing software in many areas of the business world. Managers, lawyers, clerks, reporters, and editors rely on this software to do their jobs. Whether you are an executive secretary or a website designer, you'll need to know the ins and outs of electronic word processing.
Microsoft® Word 2021 is designed to help you move smoothly through the task of creating professional-looking documents. Its rich features and powerful tools can make your work easy, and even fun. In this course, you'll learn how to use Word 2021 to create and edit simple documents; format documents; add tables and lists; add design elements and layout options; and proof documents.
This course covers Microsoft Office Specialist Program exam objectives to help you prepare for the Word Associate (Office 365 and Office 2021): Exam MO-100 and Word Expert (Office 365 and Office 2021): Exam MO-101 certifications.
In this course, you will learn fundamental Word skills.
You will:
- Navigate and perform common tasks in Word, such as opening, viewing, editing, saving, and printing documents, and configuring the application.
- Format text and paragraphs.
- Perform repetitive operations efficiently using tools such as Find and Replace, Format Painter, and Styles.
- Enhance lists by sorting, renumbering, and customizing list styles.
- Create and format tables.
- Insert graphic objects into a document, including symbols, special characters, illustrations, pictures, and clip art.
- Format the overall appearance of a page through page borders and colors, watermarks, headers and footers, and page layout.
- Use Word features to help identify and correct problems with spelling, grammar, readability, and accessibility.
To ensure your success in this course, you should have end-user skills with any current version of Windows®, including being able to start programs, switch between programs, locate saved files, close programs, and access websites using a web browser. To meet this prerequisite, you can take any one or more of the following United States Career Campus courses:
- Using Microsoft® Windows® 10 (Second Edition)
- Microsoft® Windows® 10: Transition from Windows® 7
For this course, you will need one computer for each student and one for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum hardware configurations:
- 1.6 GHz or faster 32-bit or 64-bit dual-core processor
- 2 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 4 GB RAM (64-bit)
- 25 GB available disk space
- DirectX 10 graphics card and a 1,280 × 576 or higher resolution monitor (1,280 x 768 resolution or higher monitor recommended)
- Keyboard and mouse (or other pointing device)
- Network cards and cabling for local network access
- Internet access (contact your local network administrator)
- Printer (optional) or an installed printer driver
- Projection system to display the instructor's computer screen
Lesson 1: Getting Started
with Word 2021
Topic A: Navigate in
Microsoft Word
Topic B: Create and
Save Word Documents
Topic C: Manage Your
Workspace
Topic D: Edit
Documents
Topic E: Preview and
Print Documents
Topic F: Customize the
Word Environment
Lesson 2: Formatting Text
and Paragraphs
Topic A: Apply
Character Formatting
Topic B: Control
Paragraph Layout
Topic C: Align Text
Using Tabs
Topic D: Display Text
in Bulleted or Numbered Lists
Topic E: Apply Borders
and Shading
Lesson 3: Working More
Efficiently
Topic A: Make
Repetitive Edits
Topic B: Apply
Repetitive Formatting
Topic C: Use Styles to
Streamline Repetitive Formatting Tasks
Lesson 4: Managing Lists
Topic A: Sort a List
Topic B: Format a List
Lesson 5: Adding Tables
Topic A: Insert a
Table
Topic B: Modify a
Table
Topic C: Format a
Table
Topic D: Convert Text
to a Table
Lesson 6: Inserting
Graphic Objects
Topic A: Insert
Symbols and Special Characters
Topic B: Add Images to
a Document
Lesson 7: Controlling Page
Appearance
Topic A: Apply a Page
Border and Color
Topic B: Add Headers
and Footers
Topic C: Control Page
Layout
Topic D: Add a
Watermark
Lesson 8: Preparing to
Publish a Document
Topic A: Check
Spelling, Grammar, and Readability
Topic B: Use Research
Tools
Topic C: Check
Accessibility
Topic D: Save a
Document to Other Formats
Appendix A: Mapping Course
Content to Word Associate (Office 365 and Office 2021): Exam MO-100
Appendix B: Mapping Course
Content to Word Expert (Office 365 and Office 2021): Exam MO-101
Appendix C: Microsoft® Office Word 2021 Common Keyboard Shortcuts