Advanced Word Processing - Word 2007
Career Fields(s):
     Business, Management, & Administration
InstitutionCourse NumberCourse TitleCollege
Semester Credit(s)
Dakota County Technical CollegeOFFC 1030Word Processing3
Minnesota State College - Southeast TechnicalADMS 2417Word Processing II2
Minnesota West Community & Technical CollegeADSA 1123Word Processing II2
Rochester Community and Technical CollegeBTEC 2330Word Processing II3
 
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
 
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