If you are located in the Wollongong area you may receive your one-on-one Microsoft Word training in person using your own computer in any topic relating to the creation and use of Word documents and templates. If you are located within Australia and have a fixed-line telephone, Word Phone Help/Coaching is available to allow you to receive your training by phone.
Right Version
Word 2007 has a very different user interface to Word 2003 making transfer of knowledge from learning with one version to the other quite difficult.
When you select your training, you need it to be conducted in the right version for you.
Friendly Computer Coaching offers training in a wide range of versions (i.e. Word 2007, 2003, 2002, 2000, and 97) so you can have the coaching that right for you.
Anything in Word
If you're very new to computers and word processing, you'll need to master the basics of working with Word documents.
Those with a basic understanding of Word will be interested in learning how to create classy looking documents or setting up mail merged documents that automatically insert personalized information from a recipients list.
MS Word basics
- Open Word
- Customize Toolbars
- Print Layout view
- Typing Paragraphs
- Positioning the insertion point
- Backspace and Delete
- Scrolling through the Document
- Save
- Save As
- Exit
- Close Word
- Open a document
- Font
- Font Size
- Zoom
- Print Preview
Classy Word Docs
More advanced users will be ready to be coached on how to create documents with class.
In a coaching session it can be helpful if you begin working towards creating the kind of document you want to be able to create.
The document could be a letter, essay, catalogue, book, thesis, etc, it doesn't matter.
As you learn more about Word you'll get to understand its huge potential.
A typical coaching session can involve learning a subset of the different topics listed below.
- Selecting paragraphs
- Align left, Center, Align right, Justify paragraphs
- Selecting text
- Bold, Italic, Underline
- Formatting text
- Format Painter
- Undo and Redo
- Spell Check
- Look up words in Thesaurus etc.
- Line Spacing
- Paragraph Spacing
- Paragraph Indents
- Bullets
- Numbered Lists
- Headers and Footers
- Page Breaks
- Page Setup
- Copy, Cut and Paste
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Drag and Drop
- Working with more than one document at a time
- Working with Tables
- Working with Styles
- Themes
- Document Map
- Thumbnails
- Working with Templates
- Using Find and Replace
- Mail Merging
- Fields
- Envelopes and Labels
- Hyperlinks
- Auto Correct
- Table of Contents
- Index
- Images
- Drawing
- Charts
- Footnotes
- Captions
- Cross Referencing
- Field Codes
- Macros
- Visual Basic Programming
Actually anything that can be done in Word can be covered in Friendly Computer Coaching sessions.
Just decide what you want to accomplish and contact office to arrange a coaching plan that's right for you.
Development
To save you time we can create customized ready made documents for you.
- Templates
- Template Systems
- Documents that interact programatically with user inputs and/or other programs.
- Mail Merge systems
Contact our office to find out exactly what Friendly Computer Coaching ∓ Problem Solving can do for you.
If you need training/coaching in any area of Microsoft Word document creation and are based
in the Wollongong area, Friendly Computer Coaching can assist you.
