Training: ICDL ADVANCED – Word Processing – AM3

Chapter 1: Formatting

• Module 1: Text
  • Apply text wrapping options for graphical objects (picture, chart, diagram, drawn object), tables
  • Use find and replace options like: matching case, whole words, font formats, paragraph formats, paragraph marks, page breaks
  • Use paste special options: formatted text, unformatted text
• Module 2: Paragraphs
  • Apply line spacing within paragraphs: at least, exactly/ fixed, multiple/proportional
  • Apply, remove paragraph pagination options
  • Apply, modify outline numbering in multi-level lists
• Module 3: Styles
  • Recognise good practice in maintaining consistent and accessible design and format throughout a document by using styles, alternative text
  • Create, modify, update a character style
  • Create, modify, update a paragraph style
• Module 4: Columns
  • Apply multiple column layouts. Change number of columns in a column layout
  • Change column widths and spacing. Insert, remove lines between columns
  • Insert, delete a column break
• Module 5: Tables
  • Apply a table autoformat/table style
  • Merge, split cells in a table. Split a table
  • Change cell margins, alignment, text direction
  • Automatically repeat heading row(s) at the top of each page
  • Allow, do not allow row(s) to break across pages
  • Sort data by one column, by multiple columns at the same time
  • Convert delimited text to a table
  • Convert a table to text

Chapter 2: Referencing

• Module 1: Captions, Footnotes and Endnotes
  • Add a caption above, below a graphical object, table
  • Add, delete a caption label
  • Change caption number format
  • Insert, modify footnotes, endnotes
  • Convert a footnote to an endnote. Convert an endnote to a footnote
• Module 2: Citations and Bibliography
  • Insert, edit a citation like: book, article, conference proceedings, website, report
  • Set, modify citation style
  • Create, update a bibliography
• Module 3: Reference Tables and Indexes
  • Create, update a table of contents based on specified heading styles and formats
  • Create, update a table of figures based on specified styles and formats
  • Edit a table of contents, table of figures like: heading styles, format, leaders
  • Mark an index: main entry, subentry. Delete a marked index entry
  • Create, update an index based on marked index entries
• Module 4: Bookmarks and Cross-References
  • Add, delete a bookmark
  • Create, update, delete a cross-reference to: numbered item, heading, bookmark, figure, table
  • Add a cross-reference to an index entry

Chapter 3: Enhancing Productivity

• Module 1: Using Fields
  • Insert, delete fields like: file name and path, file size, total page number
  • Insert a formula field code in a table like: sum, average, count
  • Change field number, date format
  • Lock, unlock, update a field
• Module 2: Forms, Templates
  • Create, modify a form using available form field options: text field, check box, drop-down menu
  • Protect, unprotect a form
  • Save a document as a template, modify a template
  • Modify the default template
• Module 3: Mail Merge
  • Edit, sort, filter a mail merge recipient list
  • Insert ask, if… then… else… fields
  • Merge a document with a recipient list using given merge criteria
• Module 4: Linking, Embedding
  • Create a simple chart in a document
  • Link data from a document, application and display as an object, icon
  • Update, break a link
  • Embed data into a document as an object
  • Edit, delete embedded data
• Module 5: Automation
  • Modify automatic text formatting options
  • Create, modify, delete automatic text correction entries
  • Create, modify, insert, delete automatic text entries
  • Record a simple macro like: change page setup, insert a table with a repeating heading row, insert fields in document header, footer
  • Run a macro
  • Assign a macro to a custom button

Chapter 4: Collaborative Editing

• Module 1: Tracking and Reviewing
  • Turn on, off track changes. Track changes in a document locally, online using a specified display view
  • Accept, reject changes in a document locally, online
  • Insert, edit, delete, show, hide comments/notes in a document locally, online
  • Compare and merge documents
• Module 2: Security
  • Add, remove password protection for a document: to open, to modify
  • Protect a document to only allow tracked changes or comments

Chapter 5: Preparing Outputs

• Module 1 : Sections
  • Create, modify, delete section breaks in a document
  • Change page orientation, page vertical alignment, margins for sections of a document
• Module 2: Document Setup
  • Apply different headers and footers to sections, first page, odd and even pages in a document
  • Add, modify, remove a watermark in a document
• Module 3: Spelling, Thesaurus
  • Set, modify default spell check language
  • Use Thesaurus to search, insert alternative word(s)