Microsoft Word Training Courses

At Mouse Training, we have a series of excellent MS Word training courses to offer our clients. As MS Word is probably the most used application from the MS Office suite, training on Word is vital.

Many users find it very frustrating to manage documents, especially the Word documents received from external users. These documents might contain formats which is difficult to manage or correct.

With our extensive and industry leading MS Word training courses, you will learn what is needed to perform Word processing tasks quickly and easily. We offer a standard and bespoke list of MS Word training courses, shown further down this page.

If you have upgraded to MS Word 2010, then attending our MS Word 2010 training course will show you how to make the most of the new and enhanced Word 2010 features.

Our bespoke MS Word training course list will help if you need to have training on specific topics,e.g. Managing Long Documents, or using cross referencing in TOC's in MS Word. You can see all our bespoke MS Word training courses to the right of the screen.

Do not take a chance on attending a public schedule Word training course. You will waste hours of your day and more importantly money, on topics you might never use. We can tailor all our courses to meet your exact needs. This is done with a free MS Word training needs analysis.

Mouse Training is run by trainers, not sales staff. We know what you need, and will not sell you something you will never use. That's why companies like Google (Yes Google!!!) make use of us. Only the best for the best. Contact us to discuss your needs. No booking and up front paying then trying to get the correct level like many other Word Training Companies!

Microsoft Word 2010 Training Courses

With MS Word 2010, you are able to create and manage documents even more easily with fantastic new and enhanced features. Listed below are all our MS Word 2010 training courses

Microsoft Word 2007 Training Courses

Listed below are all our Word 2007 training courses:

Microsoft Word 2003 Training Courses

Mouse Training offers expert Word 2003 training courses. Remember that all our Word courses can be tailored to suit your needs. So, if you are an existing Word user and need to have focused training, we can tailor our Word 2003 training courses to suit your needs.

Microsoft Word Course Levels / Training Details / Locations / Schedule

Select a MS Word training course level below to view all the information you need about the course, including the cost of the course, the available training formats and much more.

Introduction
Intermediate
Advanced
Visual Basic
Tailored Training
TNA

Microsoft Word Introduction Training Course

If you are a new or self taught user on MS Word, then this course will be perfect. The course covers all topics required to produce documents that not only looks good, but is well structured

Word Introduction Course Duration

This is a 1 day Word Introduction Training Course. The course starts at 09:30 and runs until 16:30

Word Beginners Course Locations / Schedule

This course can be run Onsite, at our Word training centre or any preferred location in the UK. The course is run on a date that suits you! We do not run public scheduled courses.

Word Introduction / Beginners Training Course Contents

Word Basics

Word Overview - the User Interface, Quick Access and Mini Toolbar
Standard & Contextual Ribbons
The File Tab
Status Bar Tools
Dialog Boxes
Task Panes
Using Help

Basic MS Word Usage and Text tools

Creating new blank documents
Accessing and opening templates to create documents
Saving, closing and opening Documents
Understanding non-printing characters
Selection techniques (keyboard + mouse)
Navigating documents
Using Word Views, e.g. Print layout and Draft and reading
Entering text and understanding basic text features. (word-wrap)
Using Find/Replace
Spell Check, Thesaurus

Format Your Document

Applying Font formats - Changing font type, size, colour, special effects, character spacing
Changing the default font for all new documents
Using Paragraph formats - justification, indentation, space before and after Paragraph
Line spacing, Widow and orphan control
Inserting non breaking hyphens and spaces
Applying borders and shading
Format Painter
Using Cut, Copy and Paste
Revealing formatting and Clearing formatting

Bullets & Numbering

Turning on Bullets
Creating & editing bulleted list styles
Changing bullet types and formatting
Turning on Numbered Lists
Creating your own numbered list style
Changing numbering types

Working With Tabs

Understanding Tabs
Changing the default Tab Stop
Setting and manipulating Tab markers on the ruler
Setting and manipulating Tab markers in the Tab Dialog box
Using leader tabs
Using bar tabs
Setting the measurement units for the Ruler (Imperial and Metric)
Using Tabs in a Document

Setting up your Document

Inserting and Deleting page breaks
Changing page orientation to Landscape or Portrait
Viewing Headers and Footers
Creating Basic Page numbering
Setting Margin Sizes
Using Page Borders
Inserting a Watermark

Printing

Printing a Document
Setting Print options
Previewing a document
Selecting a printer

Microsoft Word Intermediate Training Course

This MS Word intermediate course will build on the basic course. The course is perfect for existing Word users whom need to produce documents that are more complex with graphics or charts.

Word Intermediate Course Duration

This is a 1 day Word Intermediate Training Course. The course starts at 09:30 and runs until 16:30

Word Intermediate Course Locations / Schedule

This course can be run Onsite, at our Word training centre or any preferred location in the UK. The course is run on a date that suits you! We do not run public scheduled courses.

Word Intermediate Training Course Contents

Create & Apply Styles

The Inbuilt style group (home ribbon)
Style sets
The Style Pane
Define Styles
Link styles
Delete styles
Inbuilt Heading Styles and the Navigation Pane
Create and modify styles
Replacing a style
Numbering Using Styles
List Styles
Table Styles
Style options
Style Inspector
Using the Organizer to transfer styles
Shortcut key to a style

Using Outline View

Styles in Outline
Connecting outline levels to styles
Showing and hiding outline levels
Promoting and demoting levels
Printing your outline

Master Documents

Use outlining to create master and subdocuments
Insert documents into master document
Updating linked documents

Advanced Page Layout Tools

Introducing sections and section Breaks
Setting the Page layout for a section
Change orientation within a section
Different Headers and Footers for different sections
Odd / Even Header and Footers
Different first page
Newspaper columns using continuous section breaks
Manually editing a header and footer
Section control with headers and footers

Tables In MS Word

Methods for inserting tables
Changing the column widths and row heights
Inserting new columns and rows
Deleting existing columns and rows
Distributing columns and rows evenly
Splitting and Merging cells
Applying a Pre-set table format (Theme Style)
Customising and creating table styles
Repeating header rows
Splitting a tables
Converting a text into a table
Converting a table into text
Sorting a table
Using formulae in a Table
The Table Design Ribbon
Nesting Tables
Drawing tables, resizing and deleting
Using tabs within a table
Setting table Properties

Word Auto Features

Understanding Word 2010 Automatic Features
AutoText & Autocorrect
Autoformat as you type
Smart Tags
Customising automatic features
Creating autotext entries
Using QuickParts

Microsoft Word Advanced Training Course

The advanced Word training course will help users that need to produce large documents, e.g. legal or proposal documents.

Word Advanced Course Duration

This is a 1 day Word Advanced Training Course. The course starts at 09:30 and runs until 16:30

Word Advanced Course Locations / Schedule

This course can be run Onsite, at our Word training centre or any preferred location in the UK. The course is run on a date that suits you! We do not run public scheduled courses.

Word Advanced Training Course Contents

Inserting Graphics, Charts and Objects

Inserting Clipart & Pictures
Inserting shapes & SmartArt
Controlling graphic placement and text wrapping
Using the drawing canvas and drawing tools
Inserting a Screenshot
Inserting and Linking Excel Charts
Using Wordart Objects
Inserting Files

Creating Forms

Creating a form
Use section breaks in forms
Inserting Text, Checkbox and Dropdown form fields
Set Form field options
Inserting fields into your form
Lock a form (Protection)
Password protect forms
Save as a template
Use a form

Using Referencing Tools

Insert a Tables of Contents, Table of Figures and Index
Footnotes and Endnotes
Cross Referencing
Create and use Bookmarks
Insert hyperlinks
Edit hyperlinks
Use mailto: hyperlinks

Mail Merging

Use the Mail Merge Wizard Pane
Use the Mail merge contextual ribbon
Create a data source
Use an existing data source
Filter and Sort a Data Source in Word
Create letters
Create labels
Predefined merge field blocks
Insert merge fields
Simulate a merge
Preview merge data
Merge to printer
Merge to email
Insert and use the: Fill-in, If, Then, Else, fields.

Track and Merge Documents

Using Compare and Merge Documents
Sending for Review and Tracking changes
Accepting and Rejecting changes
Features of the review ribbon
Using version control in word 2010
Add, edit and remove Comments

Introduction to Macros

Record and Run a Macro
Basic Macro editing
Assigning macros to a ribbon or toolbar

Building a Template

Inbuilt Word templates
Office online templates
What is in a template?
Create a template
Edit and modify a template
Include boilerplate text and styles
Managing your Templates

Word customisation

Customise ribbons and Quick access toolbar
Set default word options
Set or edit default file paths
Set or change languages for Word
Manage add-ins

Microsoft Word VBA Training Course

The Macros or VBA Word training course will help users that need to produce large documents, e.g. legal or proposal documents.

Word VBA Course Duration

This is a 1 day Word Advanced Training Course. The course starts at 09:30 and runs until 16:30

Word VBA Course Locations / Schedule

This course can be run Onsite, at our Word training centre or any preferred location in the UK. The course is run on a date that suits you! We do not run public scheduled courses.

Word VBA Training Course Contents

Macro and VBA Overview and Basics

Overview of Word VBA
Generating code by recording
The Word Object Model
The Visual Basic Editor and The Project Explorer
Creating sub-procedures
Importance of comments and Printing your code

Manipulating Text

Insert After/Before
Selecting text and using the Text property
Retrieving text from a selection
Formatting a selection
Toggling formatting
Finding and replacing text

Objects, Methods, Properties and Variables

About objects and collections
Returning an object
Working with methods
Working with properties
Ranges The Range object
Ranges and navigation
The Characters collection
The Words collection
The Sentences collection
The Paragraphs collection
The Font object
The Paragraph Format objects
Declaring and using Variables

Structures

Variables and constants
Declaring and typing variables
Using conditional structures
Using looping structures

Tracking and Merging Documents

Using Compare and Merge Documents
Sending for Review and Tracking changes
Accepting and Rejecting changes
Features of the reviewing toolbar
Saving versions
Adding Comments

Constructing Templates

Predefined Word templates
What can a template contain?
Saving a document as a template
Editing and modifying a templates
Including boilerplate text and styles
Managing Template Distribution and Updates

Custom Dialogue Boxes

Built-in dialog boxes
Dialog box settings
Capturing return values
Dialog box events

Controls

Overview of Active controls
Creating user forms
Adding controls to a user form
Setting properties
Creating event procedures
Displaying a user form
Dismissing a user form

Tailored or Bespoke Word Training Courses

We have developed our own Custom Course Builder, where you can choose the topics you want to include in your course. Each topic has an estimated teach time, so you can see how long it would take to learn what you want!

GO TO WORD COURSE BUILDER

MS Word Training Needs Analysis

We provide a free Word Training Needs Analysis (TNA) for all our clients to ensure the course is exactly what you need. Simply download our Word TNA. After completion, send this back to us. We can then build an Microsoft Word Training Course that will ensure you only get shown relevant topics, unlike scheduled Word training courses.

Specific MS Word Training Course Versions and Levels

Below are all our different versions of Microsoft Word Training Courses

Microsoft Word 2002 Training Courses

Also known as Word XP, Mouse Training are able to offer the following Word 2002 training courses:

Microsoft Word 2000 & 97 Training Courses

The older versions of MS Word is still used by many organizations. Although older, they are still packed with great tools. Let us show you how with our Word 2000 & 97 training courses:

Word Resources

Word Training Los Angeles - provided by Training Connection

Word Training Toronto - provided by Servitor Training Services

Word Training Vancouver - provided by Alandale Computer Training

Word Training Sydney - provided by Raising the Bar