Word Pro Millennium Edition: Introduction (Windows 95)

Course specifications

Course number: WPM-L1-052 395

Software version number: 98

Course length: 1 day

Course description

Overview: Students will learn the basic skills necessary to use Word Pro Millennium Edition for the Windows 95 operating system.

Prerequisites: Windows 95 or Windows 98: Introduction, Windows 95 or Windows 98: Transition, or equivalent knowledge.

Delivery method: Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Benefits: Students will learn how to create and edit documents by using character and paragraph formatting.

Target student: Students enrolling in this course should understand the basic concepts involved in working with a personal computer (PC). No prior knowledge of Word Pro is assumed.

What's next: Word Pro Millennium Edition: Introduction (Windows 95) is the first course in this series. Students who want to learn advanced features can take Word Pro Millennium Edition: Advanced (Windows 95).

Performance-based objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Create, edit, save, view, and print a document by using Word Pro.
• Open an existing document, and format characters and paragraphs by using SmartIcons, menus, and
• InfoBoxes.
• Create, modify, and format tables.
• Check documents for spelling and grammar by using proofing tools, and control page appearance by setting margins, tabs, and page breaks, and by creating headers and footers.
• Create a document by using an existing SmartMaster and by creating a new SmartMaster.
• Share the editing of documents with co-workers by using team computing features.
• Create an Internet home page by using Word Pro SmartMasters.

Course content

Lesson 1: Understanding Word Pro basics

• Introduction to Word Pro Millennium Edition and the workspace
• Creating a new document
• Editing a document
• Viewing and printing the document

Lesson 2: Navigating and formatting

• Navigating within a document and selecting text
• Formatting characters
• Formatting paragraphs

Lesson 3: Using tabs and tables

• Setting and changing tabs
• Working with tables
• Modifying table structure
• Formatting tables

Lesson 4: Using proofing tools and controlling page appearance

• Proofing your document
• Choosing document margins
• Working with document page breaks
• Creating headers and footers

Lesson 5: Using SmartMasters

• Creating a document by using a SmartMaster
• Inserting data in a SmartMaster

Lesson 6: Team computing

• Team computing
• TeamReview
• Versions
• TeamConsolidate
• TeamSecurity
• TeamMail

Lesson 7: Creating a Web page

• Creating a Web document
• Previewing and saving your Web page

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