Training: ICDL BASE – Word Processing – BM3

Using the application

Module 1: Working with documents

• Open, close a word processing application. Open, close document(s)
• Create a new document based on default template, other available template locally or online
• Save a document to a location on a local, online drive. Save a document under another name to a location on a local, online drive
• Save a document as another file type like: text file, pdf, software specific file extension
• Switch between open documents

Module 2: Enhancing Productivity

• Set basic options/preferences in the application: user name, default folder to open, save documents
• Use available help resources
• Use magnification/zoom tools
• Display, hide built-in toolbars. Restore, minimise the ribbon
• Recognise good practice in navigating within a document: use shortcuts, go to tool
• Use go to tool to navigate to a specific page

Document Creation

Module 1: Enter Text

• Understand the uses of available document view modes like: print, draft
• Switch between document view modes
• Enter text into a document
• Insert symbols or special characters like: ©, ®, ™

Module 2: Select, Edit

• Display, hide non-printing formatting marks like: spaces, paragraph marks, manual line break marks, tab characters
• Select character, word, line, sentence, paragraph, entire body text
• Edit content by entering, removing characters, words within existing text, by over-typing to replace existing text
• Use a simple search command for a specific character, word, phrase
• Use a simple replace command for a specific character, word, phrase
• Copy, move text within a document, between open documents
• Delete text
• Use the undo, redo command

Formatting

Module 1: Text

• Apply text formatting: font size, font type
• Apply text formatting: bold, italic, underline
• Apply text formatting: subscript, superscript
• Apply font colour to text
• Apply case changes to text
• Apply automatic hyphenation

Module 2: Paragraphs

• Create, merge paragraph(s)
• Insert, remove soft carriage return (line break)
• Recognise good practice in text layout: use align, indent, tab tools rather than inserting spaces
• Align text: left, centre, right, justified
• Indent paragraphs: left, right, first line, hanging
• Set, remove and use tabs: left, centre, right, decimal
• Recognise good practice in paragraph spacing: apply spacing between paragraphs rather than inserting several paragraph marks
• Apply spacing above, below paragraphs. Apply single, 1.5 lines, double line spacing within paragraphs
• Add, remove bullets, numbers in a single level list. Switch between different standard bullet, number styles in a single level list
• Apply border style, line style, line colour, line width, shading/background colour to a paragraph

Module 3: Styles

• Apply an existing character style to selected text
• Apply an existing paragraph style to one or more paragraphs
• Use copy format tool

Objects

Module 1: Table Creation

• Create, delete a table
• Insert, edit data in a table
• Select rows, columns, cells, entire table
• Insert, delete rows and columns

Module 2: Table Formatting

• Modify column width, row height
• Modify cell border line style, width, colour
• Apply shading/background colour to cell(s)

Module 3: Graphical objects

• Insert an object (picture, drawn object) to a specified location in a document
• Select an object
• Copy, move an object within a document, between open documents
• Resize an object maintaining, not maintaining aspect ratio. Delete an object

Mailings

Module 1: Preparation

• Open, prepare a document, as a main document (letters, address labels) for a mail merge
• Select a mailing list, other data file, for use in a mail merge
• Insert data fields in a mail merge main document

Module 2: Outputs

• Merge a mailing list, other data file with a letter, label document as a new file
• Print mail merge outputs: letters, labels

Prepare Outputs

Module 1: Setup

• Change document orientation: portrait, landscape. Change paper size
• Change margins of entire document: top, bottom, left, right
• Recognise good practice in adding new pages: insert a page break rather than inserting several paragraph marks
• Insert, delete a page break
• Add, edit, delete text in headers, footers
• Add, delete fields in headers, footers: date, page numbering, file name, author

Module 2: Check and Print

• Spell check a document and make changes like: correcting spelling errors, ignoring specific words, deleting repeated words
• Add words to a built-in custom dictionary using a spell checker
• Preview a document
• Print a document using output options like: entire document, specific page(s), selected text, number of copies