Advanced Word Processing Career Fields(s):      Business, Management, & Administration Institution Course Number Course Title College Semester Credit(s) Minnesota State College - Southeast Technical ADMS 2417 Word Processing II 2 Ridgewater College - Hutchinson ADS 2030 Word 3 Ridgewater College - Willmar ADS 2030 Word 3 South Central College - Faribault OTEC 2875 Word Processing Concepts & Applications: Expert 3 South Central College - North Mankato OTEC 2875 Word Processing Concepts & Applications: Expert 3   Guidelines A. The student must earn no less than a B for the final grade. B. The student must be a junior or senior to receive the Advanced Standing Certificate. C. The student must enroll at the higher education institution within two years of high school graduation. D. The student must present the certificate at the time of registration to receive credit for the course. Students will master the following competencies in Advanced Word Processing to receive credit:   1. Getting started: insertion point, status line, enter, exit, and help functions   2. Create, save, and retrieve documents, including save as webpage   3. Text editing functions: insert, delete, typeover   4. Basic printing commands   5. Use of spell check, thesaurus, and grammar   6. Formatting a document: line spacing, tabs, and margins   7. Character formatting:        Attributes        Font size        Font styles        Convert Case   8. Style functions   9. Paragraph formats: alignments, bullets and numbering, outlining, indents, line spaces 10. Search and replace function 11. Tab alignment:        Left, right, decimal & center column tabs        Leaders        Changing tab alignment character 12. Block functions:        Moving a block of text        Moving tabular columns        Copying, deleting, printing a block of text        Saving a block of text to a new file 13. Display and manipulate text among multiple windows 14. File maintenance:        Creating and deleting files        Rename existing file(s)        Print an unopened file(s)        Preview a file        Copy/move an existing file(s)        Mark files for opening, deleting and printing 15. Pagination        Soft, hard page breaks        Protecting blocks from page breaks        Widow/orphan protection        Section breaks 16. Headers/footers        Creating, editing, deleting a header or footer        Suppressing a header or footer 17. Page numbering        Automatic page numbering/changes        Page numbering within header or footer 18. Reference functions 19. Mail Merge documents 20. Labels and envelopes 21. Macros/AutoText 22. Templates/wizards 23. Tables 24. Create and modify charts 25. Text columns 26. Sorting 27. Insert and manipulate graphics from a variety of sources 28. Hypertext links 29. Enhance business reports with outlining feature 30. Create business forms using text boxes, check boxes, and drop-down lists 31. Mark information in table of contents, index, and table of figures 32. Integrate Word with other software applications 33. Work with shared documents and track changes to a document 34. Work with master documents and sub documents Software Year _____Word 2003      _____Word 2007 Date Negotiated: November 2008 Next Review Date: November 2010 Regional Articulation Southern MN Tech Prep