Who should attend: Existing users who need to create and edit templates and forms, record macros, and produce long stylised documents.

Pre-requisites: The user should be familiar with section breaks and setting headers and footers.

Course Objectives: This two day course encourages the user to create a long technical document including cross-references, table of contents and index. Use outlining to organise a stylised document. Create a master document of linked sub-documents. Record and run macros to automate tasks. Insert cross-references and bookmarks. Apply, create and edit paragraph and character styles. Create and customise toolbars. Create a form with calculations. Create a template which includes a customised toolbar and styles specific to that template.

Course Content: Creating, Editing and Applying Styles: Apply and amend default paragraph styles. Create and apply paragraph and character styles.

Outlining: Manipulate the document in Outline view by collapsing and expanding families of text. Promote and demote stylised text, move groups of text.

Cross-Referencing: Insert cross-references to paragraphs. Edit and delete cross-references.

Bookmarks: Insert bookmarks to text. Use the GoTo command to move to book marked text, delete bookmarks.

Comments: Insert comments to text. Edit and delete comments.

Tables of Contents: Insert and update a table of contents. Change the style of the table of contents.

Indexing: Mark text for inclusion into an index and generate the index. Learn how to stylise the index. Remove entries from the index and update.

Calculations in a Word Table: Insert calculation fields into a table to Sum a column or row. Create more complex calculations in a table cell to include multiplication, division, subtraction and addition.

Master and Sub-Documents: Create a master document by inserting sub-documents. Change the order of the sub-documents and create a table of contents for the linked files.

Customising Toolbars: Create your own toolbar and assign commands to the toolbar. Change the order of the icons on the toolbar and manipulate the button image.

Macros: Record and play a macro. Assign the macro to a keyboard shortcut, menu item and toolbar. 

Form Design: Create a form containing date, text, number and calculation fields.

Template Design: Create a template file and customise a toolbar specifically for the template. Create styles for the template and use the template file.

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