The Word training gives you a solid foundation to create, format and structure your Microsoft Word documents with ease. Over a full day, you discover the Word environment, the essential editing and layout tools, professional formatting techniques and inserting graphic elements. A pivotal skill in most administrative and professional roles in French speaking Switzerland.
Mastering Microsoft Word means becoming truly autonomous on professional documents
In organizations across Geneva and Lausanne, using Word effectively is a must in administration, secretarial work, legal, HR and communication. This Word training favors hands on practice: letters, reports, meeting minutes, summary notes. You finish the course with reflexes immediately applicable to your own documents and course materials to dig deeper at your own pace.
Module 1: The Environment
Module 2: Formatting and layout tools
Module 3: Editing Tools
Module 4: Graphic objects
Microsoft Word remains the reference office tool for writing professional documents. From client letters to internal reports, from meeting minutes to summary notes, using Word with ease saves valuable time and ensures the presentation quality expected in any administrative role. The Word training delivers these foundations in one intensive day.
The stake is concrete: mastering Word is more than just typing text. It is about structuring information, applying consistent formatting, organizing a long document and using the right shortcuts to avoid wasting time.
The training starts with a complete hands on use of the Microsoft Word interface: ribbon, toolbar, navigation, keyboard shortcuts. This familiarity is essential to gain speed. You then learn the essential editing tools: selection, copy paste, find and replace, spell check, annotation management.
These foundations seem obvious, but most users only exploit a fraction of them. The training reveals the lesser known features that truly change daily productivity.
The course gives a central place to Word formatting and layout. You learn to apply text styles, manage paragraphs (alignment, spacing, indentation), structure pages (margins, orientation, section breaks), and create consistent headers and footers. These techniques turn a regular Word document into a professional support.
You also see how to work with bullet and numbered lists, tabs and visual organization to ease reading.
The training covers inserting graphic objects: images, simple tables, shapes, SmartArt. You learn to position them properly, manage text wrapping and keep a readable layout when content evolves.
The Word training is designed for assistants, secretaries, legal staff, HR, communicators, self employed professionals and any users producing Word documents regularly. No specific prerequisites beyond using a computer.
At our ITTA centers in Carouge and Le Flon, this Word training runs over one day with an expert instructor and a small group to ensure personalized follow up. You work on real documents and leave with course materials.
Who is this Word training for?
For anyone who uses Word regularly and wants to master the basics in a structured way. No specific prior knowledge is required.
Which Word version is used in training?
Microsoft Word 365, the most up to date version. The features taught also apply to Word 2021 and 2019.
How long to master Microsoft Word?
The basics are acquired in a structured day. Real mastery comes with practice on your own documents.
What is the natural next step after this Word training?
The Word Layouts course to go further on presentation, or the Word Complex Documents course for long reports.
Is this Word training held in Geneva?
Yes, the training takes place at the ITTA center in Carouge in Geneva, at Le Flon in Lausanne and in a virtual classroom.
Does Word training prepare for a certification?
This training is non certifying. To get a Word certification, the Microsoft Office Specialist – MOS Word Associate course takes the relay.
Do I need Word installed to follow the training?
The training environment is provided in person and virtual. To practice afterwards, a Microsoft 365 license or Word 2021 is recommended.
Beginner or occasional Word users wanting solid bases for efficient professional document production. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes participants from international organizations, banking, consulting and growing SMEs. No specific prerequisite is required other than a concrete willingness to progress on the subject.
You leave with an operational mastery of the fundamentals, reusable canvases on your concrete cases, a structured action plan for the weeks that follow. Many participants report a visible effect from the first week back, with sustainable anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice. The course combines short theory inputs, practical exercises on your real situations and personalized trainer debrief.
An assistant structuring her first monthly report. A consultant producing client deliverables with clean layout. A manager rapidly drafting service notes. The course adapts exercises to your context with personalized trainer feedback, and each participant leaves with an action plan calibrated to their own situation.
Combines well with Word Layouts, Word Complex documents, Word Collaborative. Many participants enroll in one of these courses in the following trimester, according to their current priority and professional context.
Word remains the universal text processing tool. Mastering fundamentals saves daily time and lays bases for advanced uses (styles, templates, mail merge). This training proposes rigorous initiation applicable from return.
Most participants report a noticeable effect from the first week of return, with deeper anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice on real files. The course closes with a personalized practice plan calibrated on your professional context.
The features covered are used daily by millions of professionals across Geneva and Lausanne organizations. Mastery of these features transforms repetitive work into efficient routine. This training relies on real cases and offers an outfitted approach calibrated for the 2025-2026 evolutions of the platform.
At ITTA centers in Geneva and Lausanne, this course runs in a small group with an expert trainer and a format alternating concise theory, practical exercises and personalized debrief. Group confidentiality is explicit and held. Each participant arrives with a real case and leaves with an action plan calibrated to their context. The course integrates recent evolutions of the domain (digital tools, hybrid formats, 2025-2026 practices) without losing focus on fundamentals.
Which Word version is covered?
The course covers Word 365 and 2021. Modern features (Copilot Word, Loop) are introduced.
Suitable for true beginners?
Yes, no specific prerequisite.
Is Copilot Word integrated?
Yes, per available license.
Where do sessions take place?
ITTA has three centers in French speaking Switzerland: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Cotes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom.
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel. 058 307 73 00
ITTA
Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm.
