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Microsoft Word: Controlling Document Design

Qualifications needed

This course presumes a confident knowledge of Word fundamental skills and interface (comfortable with creating documents and using basic formatting). This course is not recommended to those who have attended the training course, Microsoft Word: Producing a Thesis, as there will be an overlap of topics.

Course information

NOTE: These are in-person sessions requiring attendance at the stated venue.

This course will give you the tools to control the structure of your documents; organise and manage layouts to produce more professional looking documents.

Topics include:

• Using tabs in tabular layouts
• Using and designing with tables
• Using page and section breaks to control the flow of content
• Controlling headers/footers and pagination
• Using images effectively
• Editing PDF files in Word

Based on Office 365 for Windows

This course is not recommended for those who have also attended or have booked onto the course Producing a Thesis in Word, as there will be some overlap of topics.

What previous particioants have said:
"If you deal with incoming documents that are messy and badly formatted, this course will help save you so much time!"
"Worthwhile for report writing."
"My newsletters will be more appropriately formatted!"
"Really great training. I wish I had done this years ago"
"This has made a great difference to the way I will design and lay-out, particularly the numerous illustrations that I will be using."

This courses is not open to those on Taught Postgraduate programs.

Tutors

Sonny Evans

Venue

Butts Wynd PC Classroom: BWD 01

Course provider

IELLI
Email: ielli@st-andrews.ac.uk