Word 2007 Advanced Study Guide

 study guide 1-4239-1837-1 © 2008
Publish date: March 22, 2007
208 pages

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Course ID:Word-2007-adv-sg

The final course in our computer training books series on Word 2007 is the Word 2007 Advanced study guide. This course has earned a 4.9/5.0 rating for overall quality from ProCert Labs. It is approved courseware for the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist program and prepares you for the Word 2007 exam # 70-601.

By choosing the self-paced Word 2007 Advanced courseware, you will build on the techniques and skills you learned by taking the basic and intermediate courses. You will learn advanced concepts including how to perform mail merges, work with forms, and use master documents that feature references, indexes, and tables such as a table of contents, footnotes and endnotes, cross-references, bookmarks, an index, web frames, and a table of figures.

Other topics covered in the Microsoft Word training courseware include macros, customizing the Quick Access toolbar, creating custom keyboard shortcuts, and working with XML documents. This comprehensive training includes section reviews and hands-on activities and exercises that reinforce all that's been learned. Because the course is self-directed, you set the pace. You can master the ins and outs of using Word by following all three levels of training and prepare yourself for success in passing your certification exam.

Course objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to create mail merge form letters, create mailing labels, create envelopes, work with objects, customize your document's appearance with background colors, fill effects, watermarks, and themes, and work with forms.

You will also know how to work with the Compatibility Checker, the Document Inspector, digital signatures, and macros. Other topics include customizing the Quick Access toolbar, creating master documents, and creating XML documents.

Course Contents

Unit 1 covers mail merge

  • Creating form letters
  • Working with recipient lists and data sources
  • Mailing labels and envelopes

Unit 2 discusses objects and backgrounds

  • Working with objects
  • Setting backgrounds

Unit 3 covers forms

  • Inserting form fields
  • Form protection
  • Sharing and securing your Microsoft Word documents

Unit 4 discusses macros

  • How to record and run a macro
  • How to modify macros
  • How to delete macros

Unit 5 covers customizing toolbars and the keyboard

  • How to customize the Quick Access toolbar
  • How to create your own custom keyboard shortcuts

Unit 6 discusses long documents

  • Working with master documents
  • Inserting tables of contents and figures
  • Inserting indexes, bibliographies, and other references
  • Inserting bookmarks and cross-references
  • Working with Web frames

Unit 7 goes over XML features

  • XML and MS Word