Department/Grade:   Business Education    Course: Microsoft Word       Revision Date:  April, 2008                                      

Required/Elective:     Elective           Course Length: One Year     Prerequisite: Computer Applications

 

Course Description:

 

With this course, students will develop and apply keyboarding skills for personal and vocational use. Students will learn to use a variety of computer software features to arrange the most often used documents for personal, college, or business use.  Upon successful completion of this course, students will be prepared to take the MOUS (Microsoft Office User Specialist) certification test for Microsoft Word.

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES

CONTENT/TIMELINE OUTLINE

Students will be able to create and edit a Word document.

Enter and format document utilizing various skills

Open, save, close and correct errors in a document

Use Word’s Help feature to answer questions

 

Students will be able to create a Research Paper.

MLA-style documentation for research papers

Students will be able to create a Resume and Cover Letter with a Table.

Utilize Words’ Resume Wizard

Components of a business letter

Insert tables

Envelopes

Smart tags

Students will be able to create a document with a Table, Chart, and Watermark.

Format documents

Charting in Microsoft Graph

Draw Table feature

Students will generate Form Letters, Mailing Labels, and Directories.

Mail Merge

AutoShape

Outline

Sorting

 

Students will create a Professional Newsletter.

Word Art

Formatting

Column breaks

Vertical rules

Paste Special command

Balance columns

Diagrams

Page borders

Students will create an Online Form.

Design online form

Help text added to fields

Students will work with Macros and Visual Basic for Applications.

Word security levels

Cropping

VBA code and procedure

Macros

ActiveX controls

Digital signature

Students will work with a Master Document, an Index, a Table of Contents, and XML.

Captions

Cross references

Bookmarks

Document Maps

Password protection

eXtensible Markup Language

RESOURCE MATERIALS

ASSESSMENT

Word Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques, Thomson Publishing Co.

Copyright 2006

Labs

Cases

Project Tests