Welcome to Our How to Use Microsoft Word® Online Training Course for Homeschoolers

Week 1: Becoming familiar with the title bar, menu bar, standard toolbar, formatting toolbar, and status bar

Week 2: Creating a new document, entering and deleting text, changing font size and color, highlighting text, using format painter, saving a document.

Week 3: Displaying non-print characters, setting and clearing tabs, changing paragraph alignment, adding numbers and bullets, adding indents, changing the spacing between paragraphs.

Week 4: Inserting date and time, inserting symbols, inserting and editing page headers and footers, adding page numbers, adding manual page breaks

Week 5: Checking spelling, using auto spell checker, using autocorrect, adding to autocorrect, finding and replacing text in a document, using print preview

Week 6: Adding graphics and clipart; controlling text flow around a graphic; resizing and rotating a graphic; adjusting contrast, brightness, and compression

Week 7: Adding tables: navigating in a table, adding and editing text in a table, adding rows and columns, adjusting rows and columns, deleting rows and columns

Week 8: Adding textboxes, adding and formatting text in textboxes, controlling text flow within a textbox, resizing and formatting a textbox