This course provides the students with the knowledge and skills to be proficient in word processing applications, and to be effective as an end-user in the most ordinary business environments. This course will give the students a complete understanding of the Microsoft Office Word application environment. BCLC will teach imperative information pertaining to Word by demonstrating how to work with documents.
BCLC will accomplish this objective through lectures and hands-on training exercises that will explain concepts such as entering text into a document, and then learning how to save the document as a file. While saving a document, the students will be able to create a folder in which to store it. Students will also open other documents so they can see how to move around in them. Students will then explore the different ways they can view documents in Word and grasp the understanding of when and why they should use those various views.
Once the students grasp the concept of working with documents, BCLC will go into the details of editing and proofreading documents. This will be accomplished by teaching students how to work with the text of a document to get ready for distribution. Students will then explore editing techniques, how to create and enter Autotext entries, ensure the document is organized logically, and check that the language is precise and correct.
Then the students will learn how they can improve the appearance of text in a document by changing text characteristics. Students will also change the appearance of the paragraphs in a document by indenting them and changing their alignment, and by setting tab stops for lines within paragraphs. Furthermore, students will also create and modify bulleted and numbered lists as well as see how to use Word features that format text as you type and apply sets of formatting with just a few mouse clicks. BCLC will also introduce students to concepts of creating and formatting tables, and working with table data. They will even learn how to format text that currently appears in one column into four columns and much, much, more.