Disability Advice Welfare network
A Word In Your Ear
If you use a computer, you probably use Microsoft Word as your wordprocessor. It is also likely you use only a small part of its functions.
This tutorial will not only demonstrate how to type your document and
improve its layout but will also introduce many of the advanced facilities.
These include tables, templates, auto-correct, envelopes and bulleted lists.
The 6 tapes are intended for blind users and use shortcut keys instead of the mouse and 3 screen
readers are demonstrated (Hal95, JAWS for Windows and Window-Eyes).
The tutorial may also be suitable for sighted users.
A floppy disc which has sample documents is provided to give an opportunity to practice topics
learned.
Each tape has a contents list at the start of Side one listing the areas covered by that cassette.
The subjects covered are as follows:
TAPE 1 SIDE 1
1. Introduction
2. Installing word and removing the office assistant
3. Entering microsoft word
4. Good communication -making the program speech friendly
SIDE 2
4. Good communication -making the program speech friendly
5. Writing your first document
6. Saving a document and closing down word
7. Loading a document
8. Navigating through a document
9. Editing the document
TAPE 2 SIDE 1
10. Concluding notes on editing with exercises
11. Creating new documents and closing them
12. Opening and manipulating files, in depth
13. Saving files, in depth
TAPE 2 SIDE 2
13. Saving files, in depth
14. Highlighting text
15. Bold, italics, and underline; justification
TAPE 3 SIDE 1
15. Bold, italics, underline; justification
16. Cut, copy and paste
17. Moving information from one document to another
18. Cutting information to the spike
19. Find
TAPE 3 SIDE 2
20. Find and replace
21. advanced finding
22. Go to a page
23. Finding a page manually and inserting page breaks
24. Bookmarks
25. Bookmarks the easy way
TAPE 4 SIDE 1
26. The spell check facility
27. The word help system
28. Setting the page margins
TAPE 4 SIDE 2
28. Setting the page margins
29. Changing font atributes - point size, style and colour
30. Printing
31. Orientation - portrait and landscape
32. Page size
33. Centring a document vertically
34. Headers and footers
TAPE 5 SIDE 1
34. Headers and footers
35. Page numbering
36. Paragraph formatting and line spacing
37. Changing case
38. Auto text
39. Auto correct
TAPE 5 SIDE 2
40. Setting tab stops
41. Ruled tables
TAPE 6 SIDE 1
42. Sorting alphabetically outside a table and newspaper style columns
43. Word count
44. Envelopes
45. Labels
46. Customising word
TAPE 6 SIDE 2
46. Customising word
47. Templates
48. bulleted and numbered lists
49. concluding remarks - notes on office 2000.
Note: The tutorial assumes you are using Word 8 (Office 97).
Earlier versions of Word (Word6) may have slightly different key strokes.
Copies can be ordered by phone or post.
To order by telephone, Call 0800 073 0171 and have your credit card details available.
To order by post write to:
Disability Advice and Welfare Network
64 Bickerstaffe Street
St Helens Merseyside
WA10 1DH
Enclosing a cheque/postal order made payable to DAWN
and including your name and address. Orders can be accepted in Braille, tape, computer disc or
print. Please indicate when ordering if you require your copy to have Braille labelling.
Future tapes planned will include:
Spreadsheets; Databases;
Copyright D.A.W.N. May 2000
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