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Introduction to Text Editors

  • Capabilities of computer-based text processing
  • Creating and saving documents
  • Protecting documents with passwords
  • Creating backup copies
  • Navigating quickly and accurately through documents

Styles

  • The importance of styles for maintaining consistency, clarity, and aesthetic appeal
  • Understanding style groups and their application
  • Efficiently modifying basic text formatting
  • Formatting headings and utilising typographic resources for distinction
  • General principles for achieving clear and visually appealing text

Lists - Bullets and Numbering

  • Utilising bullet points and numbered lists
  • Maintaining a uniform appearance across lists throughout the document
  • Quickly altering the appearance of list markers
  • Adjusting the order or nesting level of list items
  • Modifying numbering formats (e.g., Roman numerals or lowercase alphabetical characters)
  • Changing bullet symbols

Tab Stops

  • Types and applications of tabs
  • Inserting and repositioning tab stops
  • Using tabs in correspondence (e.g., aligning dates in the document header to the right margin or creating dotted lines for signatures)
  • Aligning columns of numbers

Tables

  • Creating and utilising tables
  • Inserting tables into documents
  • Enhancing table aesthetics and readability (e.g., adjusting font sizes, borders, cell padding, and background colours)
  • Modifying table structure (e.g., adding or removing rows and columns, creating merged headers spanning multiple columns)

Headers and Footers

  • Applications and setup
  • Configuring distinct headers or footers for the first page
  • Implementing automatic page numbering (including formats like "Page X of Y")
  • Inserting dynamic document metadata on every page (e.g., title, author, or modification date)
  • Customising font and size for page numbers independently from other header/footer content
  • Using separator lines to distinguish header/footer content

Mail Merge

  • Applications and underlying mechanisms
  • Preparing data sources (such as address databases) and the main document template
  • Executing the mail merge process
  • Printing labels and addresses for envelopes

Requirements

Familiarity with the Windows operating system.

 14 Hours

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