10103137Word Beginning
Course Information
Description
Within the Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Word helps you create effective business documents. Format documents with fonts, text appearance, line spacing, styles, themes, borders and shading, bulleted and numbered lists, page breaks, and page numbers. Effectively align text using indents, tab stops, paragraph alignment, sections, and columns. Insert comments, headers and footers, graphics, WordArt, SmartArt, shapes, and text boxes. Create and format tables, modify rows and columns, perform calculations, sort table data, and customize tables. Work with footnotes, endnotes, citations, and bibliographies. This course will use Microsoft Office 365/Word 2019. Required: Competency in Windows, solid file management skills, and suggested keyboarding speed of 25 words per minute.
Total Credits
1
Prior Learning Assessment
  • Exam-College Developed Challenge Exam
Course Competencies
  1. Create documents with Word
    Assessment Strategies
    through actual performance of the skill
    using a computer and Microsoft Word for Windows
    in submitted documents as specified on assignment sheet by specified assignment deadlines
    Criteria
    Plan a document
    Explore the Word window
    Start a document
    Save a document
    Select text
    Format text using the mini toolbar and the ribbon
    View and navigate a document
    Cut and paste text
    Copy and paste text
    Format with fonts
    Set document margins
    Add bullets and numbering
    Insert a graphic
    Apply a theme

  2. Edit and format documents
    Assessment Strategies
    through actual performance of the skill
    using a computer and Microsoft Office Word for Windows
    in submitted documents as specified on assignment sheet by specified assignment deadlines
    Criteria
    Find and replace text
    Check spelling and grammar
    Research Information
    Insert comments
    Change line spacing and indents
    Apply styles to text
    Insert page numbers and page breaks
    Add headers and footers
    Add footnotes and endnotes
    Insert citations
    Create a bibliography
    Inspect a document

  3. Format text and graphics
    Assessment Strategies
    through actual performance of the skill
    using a computer and Microsoft Office Word for Windows
    in submitted documents as specified on assignment sheet by specified assignment deadlines
    Criteria
    Use the Format Painter
    Work with tabs
    Add borders and shading
    Insert online pictures
    Insert a table
    Insert and delete rows and columns
    Apply a table style
    Size and scale a graphic
    Draw and format shapes
    Arrange graphic objects
    Create SmartArt graphics

  4. Format tables and documents
    Assessment Strategies
    through actual performance of the skill
    using a computer and Microsoft Office Word for Windows
    in submitted documents as specified on assignment sheet by specified assignment deadlines
    Criteria
    Convert text to a table and a table to text
    Insert and delete rows and columns
    Copy and move rows and columns
    Modify rows and columns
    Set advanced table properties
    Sort table data
    Split and merge cells
    Perform calculations in tables
    Modify table style options
    Customize a table format
    Work with indents
    Insert a section break
    Modify a table
    Insert a cover page